The best American science and nature writing, 2003 /
edited and with an introduction by Richard Dawkins ; Tim Folger, series editor.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2003.
- xxiv, 324 p. ; 22 cm.
- The Best American series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-324).
Foreword -- Introduction / Weighing the Grandma factor / At home in the heavens / Four ears to the ground / skeptical look at September 11th / DNA as destiny / Astronomy's new stars / Terminal ice / Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / My mother, the scientist / Embryo police / Ice memory / Treasure under Saddam's feet / False testament / Memory faults and fixes / Homeland insecurity / It's easy being green / The royal we / new view of our universe / blank slate / Anybody out there? / fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Fat heads sink ships / What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Sounding the alarm / very best telescope / Raising the dead / truth about missile defense / Maine's war on coyotes / bottleneck / Contributor's notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2002. Richard Dawkins -- Natalie Angier -- Tim Appenzeller -- Alan Burdick -- Clark R. Chapman Alan W. Harris -- David Ewing Duncan -- Timothy Ferris -- Ian Frazier -- James Gorman -- Charles Hirshberg -- Brendan I. Koerner -- Elizabeth Kolbert -- Andrew Lawler -- Daniel Lazare -- Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Charles C. Mann -- Bill McKibben -- Steve Olson -- Dennis Overbye -- Steven Pinker -- Oliver Sacks -- Steve Silberman -- Adam Summers -- Gary Taubes -- Bruce Watson -- William Speed Weed -- Scott Weidensaul -- Steven Weinberg -- Ted Williams -- Edward O. Wilson -- A and A The The The The The