The Best American Science Writing 2004 - Softcover

Paperback. Pub the Date: September. 2004 Pages: 288 in Publisher by: Harper Collins Jennifer Kahn's Stripped for Parts was selected as the lead story of this year's Best American Science Writing because as Dava the Sobel. Best-selling author of Longitude and the Galileo's Daughter. reveals. it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read. In Columbia's Last Flight. William Langewiesche recounts the Feuary 1. 2003. space shuttle tragedy. along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that ought the ship down. KC Cole's Fun with Physics is a profile of astrophysicist Janet Conrad that blends her personal life with professional activity. In Desperate Measures. the doctor and writer Atul Gawande profiles the surgeon Francis Daniels Moore. whose experiments in the 1940s and '50s pushed medicine harder and farther than almost anyone had contemplate...