The Best American science writing 2000 / guest editor: James Gleick ; Jesse Cohen, series editor.

New York, NY : Ecco Press, [2000], ©2000.

x, 258 pages ; 24 cm

1st ed.

When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande -- Of mice and elephants: a matter of scale / George Johnson -- Lord of the flies / Jonathan Weiner -- The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- Close encounters / Deborah M. Gordon -- Antarctic dreams / Francis Halzen -- Interstellar spaceflight: can we travel to other stars / Timothy Ferris -- Journey to the center of my mind / Stephen S. Hall -- Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot.

Close encounters: an artist shows that size affects shape / Denis G. Pelli -- Analogy as the core of cognition / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Revolutionary new insoles combine five forms of pseudoscience / The Onion -- Brilliant light / Oliver Sacks -- Lab notes / Don Asher -- Furs for evening, but cloth was the stone age standby / Natalie Angier -- A division of worms / Stephen Jay Gould -- Must dog eat dog? / Susan McCarthy -- Einstein's Clocks: The place of time / Peter Galison -- A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg.