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Best American Science Writing 2004

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ISBN-10: 0060726407

ISBN-13: 9780060726409

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dava Sobel, Jesse Cohen

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Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead story of this year's Best American Science Writing because, as Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter , reveals, "it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read." In "Columbia's Last Flight," William Langewiesche recounts the February 1, 2003, space shuttle tragedy, along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that brought the ship down. K. C. Cole's "Fun with Physics" is a profile of astrophysicist Janet Conrad that blends her personal life with professional activity. In "Desperate Measures," the doctor and writer Atul Gawande profiles the surgeon Francis…    
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Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.836

Dava Sobel is an American writer who was born in the Bronx, New York, on June 15, 1947. Her books are generally written about the popular science genre and include these titles: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (about English clockmaker John Harrison who created the first chronometer); Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love; The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos. Sobel graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both…    

Introduction
Stripped for parts
Desperate measures
Mars as bright as Venus
Fun with physics
Strange nuggets
Mapping of cosmos backs Big Bang theory
Gravity in reverse
One cosmic question, too many answers
How to grow old
Signs of life
Reading minds
The science of strategy
Cracking the Harvard X-files
A tense border's more peaceful past
A comet's tale : on the science of apocalypse
Transsexual frogs
Leashing the rattlesnake
What Galileo saw
Celestial spectroscopy : making reality fit the myth
The patient predator
Cruising on the ark of taste
Columbia's last flight
We are all a part of nature