false <![CDATA[The Best American Science Writing 2001]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171458546m/99982.jpg 99982 2 <p>Gathered from the nation's leading publications by award-winning author Timothy Ferris, <i>The Best American Science Writing 2001</i> is a dynamic, up-to-date collection of essays and articles by America's most prominent thinkers and writers, addressing the most controversial, socially relevant topics that recent developments in science pose.</p><p>Among the contributors: Richard Preston examines the contentious business of decoding the human genome. Malcolm Gladwell follows investigators who aim to revolutionize birth control. Tracy Kidder profiles a modern Dr. Schweitzer. Alan Lightman laments what was lost in his transformation from astrophysicist to fiction writer. Natalie Angier makes some surprising discoveries about gender in mandrill society. Stephen Jay Gould investigates the strange contrast between the 1530 poem by a physician that gave us the name for syphilis and the poetry that can be found in the map of the pathogen's genome. Legendary physicist John Archibald Wheeler celebrates the mysteries of quantum mechanics, which still perplex a century after its discovery. And John Updike contributes a witty verse musing on a biological theme.</p><p>For anyone who wants to journey to science's frontiers, understand more fully its ever-expanding role in our lives, or simply enjoy the thrill of powerful writing on fascinating topics,<i>The Best American Science Writing 2001</i> is indispensable.</p> 96395 10 2001 The Best American Science Writing 2001 total:17|5:5|4:7|3:4|2:1|1:0| 17 67 31 2 99982 0060936487 9780060936488 16 2 The Best American Science Writing 2001 3.94 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171458546m/99982.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99982.The_Best_American_Science_Writing_2001 3 0 false Sat Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 10:55:07 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 19:42:26 -0800 2009
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Quote from page 67, in Richard Preston's bio essay on Craig Venter, "The Genome Warrior" (originally published in The New Yorker):
I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin...
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