| Description |
vii, 277 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Michio Kaku -- Mending the youngest hearts / Gretchen Vogel -- An immune system trained to kill cancer / Denise Grady -- X-rays and unshielded infants / Kristina Rebelo and Walt Bogdanich -- Aging genes / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- Taming the wild / Evan Ratliff -- Beautiful brains / David Dobbs -- Criminal minds / Josh Fischman -- The limits of intelligence / Douglas Fox -- It's not a game / Jaron Lanier -- Dream machine / Rivka Galchen -- Going to extremes / Linda Marsa -- The fire next time / Jeff Goodell -- The last shuttle launch / P.J. O'Rourke -- The early adopter's guide to space travel / Erik Sofge -- Stellar oddballs / Charles Petit -- Symmetry: a "key to nature's secrets" / Steven Weinberg -- Waiting for the Higgs / Tim Folger -- Moved by light / Devin Powell -- The accidental universe / Alan Lightman -- The birth of religion / Charles C. Mann -- Same old new atheism: on Sam Harris / Jackson Lears -- God knows where I am / Rachel Aviv -- About the contributors. |
| Subject |
Science.
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Technical writing.
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| Added Author |
Kaku, Michio.
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Cohen, Jesse.
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| Added Title |
American science writing 2012 |
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science writing 2012 |
| ISBN |
9780062117915 |
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0062117912 |
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