For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.
Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium—the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.
Introduction Jerome Groopman ix
2000 James Gleick
When Doctors Make Mistakes Atul Gawande 30
The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger Sheryl Gay Stolberg 30
2001 Timothy Ferris
Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor Freeman J. Dyson 47
Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought Ernst Mayr 51
2002 Matt Ridley
Lauren Slater Dr. Daedalus 65
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat Gary Taubes 89
2003 Oliver Sacks
Common Ground Danielle Ofri 115
The Melody Lingers On Floyd Skloot 126
2004 Dava Sobel
What Galileo Saw Michael Benson 139
Columbia's Last Flight William Langewiesche 153
2005 Alan Lightman
The Genome in Black and White (aid Gray) Robin Marantz Henig 211
Darwin or Not David Quammen 225
2006 Atul Gawande
Mighty White of You Jack Hitt 243
Your Move Tom Mueller 278
2007 Gina Kolata
The Man on the Table Was 97, But He Devised the Surgery Lawrence K. Altman 295
Truth and Consequences Jennifer Couzin-Frankel 306
2008 Sylvia Nasar
What's Normal? Jerome Groopman 319
Facing Life with a Lethal Gene Amy Harmon 333
2009 Natalie Angier
The Final Frontier Karen Olsson 351
Birdbrain Margaret Talbot 365
About the Contributors 389
Permissions 399
Overview
For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.
Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this ...