Best American Science Writing 2009 Author:Natalie Angier (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Editor) Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author Natalie Angier, The Best American Science Writing 2009 collects into one volume the premier science writing of the year. Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing - Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande among them - ... more »this anthology provides a comprehensive overview of where science has taken us, and where it is headed.
Introduction / by Natalie Angier --
The itch / Atul Gawande --
Twitchy / Sallie Tisdale --
The first ache / Annie Murphy Paul --
A journey inside the brain / Oliver Sacks --
The truth about autism / David Wolman --
Blocking the transmission of violence / Alex Kotlowitz --
Reading the wounds / Jina Moore --
A cloud of smoke / Jennifer Kahn --
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing / John Horgan --
Face-offs of the female kind / Marina Cords --
Tough lessons from golden rice / Martin Enserink --
Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash --
A tall, cool drink of ... sewage? / Elizabeth Royte --
Contagious cancer / David Quammen --
Looking up / Jennifer Margulis --
Birdbrain / Margaret Talbot --
Want to remember everything you'll ever learn? Surrender to this algorithm / Gary Wolf --
Hello, HAL / John Seabrook --
The anonymity experiment / Catherine Price --
The sky is falling / Gregg Easterbrook --
Big brain theory: have cosmologists lost theirs? / Dennis Overbye --
The final frontier / Karen Olsson --
Perhaps death is proud; more reason to savor life / Theresa Brown --
Evolutionists flock to Darwin-shaped wall stain / The Onion« less