The best american science writing 2002 / edited and with introducion by Matt Ridley ; series editor Jesse Cohen.

New York, N.Y. : Ecco Press, [2002], ©2002.

xiv, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Dr. Daedalus / Lauren Slater -- Crimson Tide / Atul Gawande -- The Made-to-order Savior / Lisa Belkin -- A Desire to Duplicate / Margaret Talbot -- Medicine's Race Problem / Sally Satel -- The thirty years' war / Jerome Groopman -- The soft science of dietary fat / Gary Taubes -- Brothers with heart / Joseph D'Agnese -- I love my glow bunny / Christopher Dickey -- Rethinking the Brain / Michael Specter -- Penninger / Mary Rogan -- Mothers and others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Of Altruism, heroism and nature's gifts in the face of terror / Natalie Angier -- pirate Utopia / Julian Dibbell -- Code Red for the Web / Carolyn Meinel -- What brings a world into being / David Berlinski -- Quantum shmantum / Tim Folger -- Shadow Science / Oliver Morton -- Can science explain everything? anything? / Steven Weinberg -- The Eco-Optimist / Nicholas Wade -- George Divoky's Planet / Darcy Frey.