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Foreword -- Introduction / Richard Dawkins -- Weighing the Grandma factor / Natalie Angier -- At home in the heavens / Tim Appenzeller -- Four ears to the ground / Alan Burdick -- A skeptical look at September 11th / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris -- DNA as destiny / David Ewing Duncan -- Astronomy's new stars / Timothy Ferris -- Terminal ice / Ian Frazier -- Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / James Gorman -- My mother, the scientist / Charles Hirshberg -- Embryo police / Brendan I. Koerner -- Ice memory / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Treasure under Saddam's feet / Andrew Lawler -- False testament / Daniel Lazare -- Memory faults and fixes / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Homeland insecurity / Charles C. Mann -- It's easy being green / Bill McKibben -- The royal we / Steve Olson -- A new view of our universe / Dennis Overbye -- The blank slate / Steven Pinker -- Anybody out there? / Oliver Sacks -- The fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Steve Silberman -- Fat heads sink ships / Adam Summers -- What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Gary Taubes -- Sounding the alarm / Bruce Watson -- The very best telescope / William Speed Weed -- Raising the dead / Scott Weidensaul -- The truth about missile defense / Steven Weinberg -- Maine's war on coyotes / Ted Williams -- The bottleneck / Edward O. Wilson -- Contributor's notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2002. |
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