Because I periodically like to find myself a host of excellent stuff to read in my spare time, here’s something you microscope junkies might enjoy. What follows are Web reprints of 18 of the 23 stories published in The Best American Science Writing 2004. Tell me if there are any good ones.
- Jennifer Kahn – Stripped for Parts
- John Updike – Mars is as Bright as Venus
- Oliver Morton – Strange Nuggets (well, not exactly, but close enough)
- Keay Davidson – Mapping of Cosmos Backs Big Bang Theory
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson – Gravity in Reverse
- Dennis Overbye – One Cosmic Question, Too Many Answers
- Sherwin B. Nuland – How to Grow Old
- Ian Parker – Reading Minds
- Tom Siegfried – The Science of Strategy
- Kaja Perina – Cracking the Harvard X-Files
- Tom Bissell – A Comet’s Tale: On the Science of Apocalypse
- Elizabeth Royte – Transsexual Frogs
- Susan Milius – Leashing the Rattlesnake
- Michael Benson – What Galileo Saw
- Barbara J. Becker – Celestial Spectroscopy: Making Reality Fit the Myth
- Kevin Patterson – The Patient Predator
- Michael Pollan – Cruising on the Ark of Taste
- William Langewiesche – Columbia’s Last Flight