| Introduction / Oliver Sacks |
| The Forest Primeval / Peter Canby |
| 1491 / Charles C. Mann |
| The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande |
| A World of Their Own / Liza Mundy |
| The Melody Lingers On / Floyd Skloot |
| The World's Numerical Recipe / Frank Wilczek |
| Emergent Realities in the Cosmos / Marcelo Gleiser |
| Scientists Reach Out to Distant Worlds / Natalie Angier |
| Here There Be Dragons / Margaret Wertheim |
| Notes from a Parallel Universe / Jennifer Kahn |
| Shadow Creatures / Michelle Nijhuis |
| You Dirty Vole / Gunjan Sinha |
| Stalking the American Lobster / Trevor Corson |
| Fighting Chance / Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| The Big Bloom / Michael Klesius |
| Why Turn Red? / Susan Milius |
| The Mosquito's Buzz / Thomas Eisner |
| Got Silk / Lawrence Osborne |
| Disorders Made to Order / Brendan I. Koerner |
| An Embarrassment of Chimpanzees / Joseph D'Agnese |
| Common Ground / Danielle Ofri |
| Why Buy That Theory? / Roald Hoffmann |
| Big Trouble in the World of "Big Physics" / Leonard Cassuto |
| Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still an Enigma / Dennis Overbye |
| Stephen Jay Gould: What Does It Mean to Be a Radical? / Richard C. Lewontin ; Richard Levins |
| About the Contributors |
| Transparent Stratagems / Timothy Ferris ; John Updike |
| More Than Meets the Eye / Michael S. Turner |
| In Mandrill Society, Life Is a Girl Thing |
| Life Beyond Earth / Joel Achenbach |
| The Small Planets / Erik Asphaug |
| How Come the Quantum? / John Archibald Wheeler |
| The Recycled Generation / Stephen S. Hall |
| The Genome Warrior / Richard Preston |
| DNA on Trial / Peter J. Boyer |
| In the Company of Humans / John Terborgh |
| Death of an Altruist / James Schwartz |
| Darwin's Influence on Modern Though / Ernst Mayr |
| Let Them Eat Fat / Greg Critser |
| The He Hormone / Andrew Sullivan |
| John Rock's Error / Malcolm Gladwell |
| The Mystery of AIDS in South Africa / Helen Epstein |
| The Virus and the Vaccine / Debbie Bookchin ; Jim Schumacher |
| Syphilis and the Shepherd of Atlantis / Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Good Doctor / Tracy Kidder |
| Running Dry / Jacques Leslie |
| Welcome to Planet Earth / Robert L. Park |
| A Portrait of the Novelist as a Young Scientist / Alan Lightman |
| Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor / Freeman J. Dyson |
| The Theory of Everything / Gina Kolata ; Tyler Cabot |
| Manifold Destiny / Sylvia Nasar ; David Gruber |
| Looking for the Lie / Robin Marantz Henig |
| Face Blind / Joshua Davis |
| Stereo Sue |
| Probing a Mind for a Cure / Stacey Burling |
| A Depression Switch? / David Dobbs |
| With Lasers and Daring, Doctors Race to Save a Young Man's Brain / Denise Grady |
| Being There / Jerome Groopman |
| God or Gorilla / Matthew Chapman |
| The Score |
| Truth and Consequences / Jennifer Couzin |
| The Man on the Table Was 97, But He Devised the Surgery / Lawrence K. Altman |
| Butterfly Lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert |
| In Ancient Fossils, Seeds of a New Debate on Warming / William J. Broad |
| John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine / Jonathon Keats |
| Mind Games / John Cassidy |
| Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery / Barry Yeoman |
| Cooking for Eggheads / Patricia Gadsby |
| Hollywood's Science Guru / Gregory Mone |
| When Doctors Make Mistakes / James Gleick |
| Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale / George Johnson |
| Lord of the Flies / Jonathan Weiner |
| The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg |
| Close Encounters / Deborah M. Gordon |
| Antarctic Dreams / Francis Halzen |
| Interstellar Spaceflight: Can We Travel to Other Stars? |
| Journey to the Center of My Mind |
| Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain |
| Close Encounters: An Artist Shows That Size Affects Shape / Denis G. Pelli |
| Analogy as the Core of Cognition / Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience / The Onion |
| Brilliant Light |
| Lab Notes / Don Asher |
| Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby |
| A Division of Worms |
| Must Dog Eat Dog? / Susan McCarthy |
| Einstein's Clocks: The Place of Time / Peter Galison |
| A Designer Universe? / Steven Weinberg |
| The Kindest Cut / Larissa MacFarquhar |
| The Placebo Problem / Steve Silberman |
| Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk / Benedict Carey |
| The Truth About Grit / Jonah Lehrer |
| How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion / Daniel M. Wegner |
| Friendship as a Health Factor / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel |
| A life of Its Own / Michael Specter |
| The Orchid Children |
| My Genome, My Self / Steven Pinker |
| Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad / Pam Belluck |
| The Famine Fighter's Last Battle / Erik Stokstad |
| Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths / Julia Scott |
| Disaster Aversion / Rivka Galchen |
| The Sixth Extinction? |
| Are We Still Evolving? / Kathleen McAuliffe |
| A Most Private Evolution |
| Unpopular Science / Chris Mooney ; Sheril Kirshenbaum |
| An Epidemic of Fear / Amy Wallace |
| The Missions of Astronomy |
| Decoding an Ancient Computer / Tony Freeth |
| The Deadly Choices at Memorial / Sheri Fink |
| So Much to Learn About the Oceans from Sand / Cornelia Dean |
| Dr. Daedalus / Matt Ridley ; Lauren Slater |
| Crimson Tide |
| The Made-to-Order Savior / Lisa Belkin |
| A Desire to Duplicate / Margaret Talbot |
| Medicine's Race Problem / Sally Satel |
| The Thirty Years' War |
| The Soft Science of Dietary Fat / Gary Taubes |
| Brothers with Heart |
| I Love My Glow Bunny / Christopher Dickey |
| Rethinking the Brain |
| Penninger / Mary Rogan |
| Mothers and Others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy |
| Of Altruism, Heroism and Nature's Gifts in the Face of Terror |
| 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? |
| The Eco-Optimist / Nicholas Wade |
| George Divoky's Planet / Darcy Frey |
| Facing Life with a Lethal Gene / Amy Harmon |
| An Error in the Code |
| 23andMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics / Thomas Goetz |
| Evolved for Cancer? / Carl Zimmer |
| How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002 / Tara Parker-Pope |
| Psychiatrists, Children, and Drug Industry's Role / Gardiner Harris ; Janet Roberts |
| After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay |
| Dr. Drug Rep / Daniel Carlat |
| When Is a Pain Doctor a Drug Pusher? / Tina Rosenberg |
| What's Normal? |
| Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants |
| The Abyss |
| Muscle Memory / Ben McGrath |
| Duped |
| The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis |
| Moving Beyond Kyoto / Al Gore |
| Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future Is Drying Up / Jim Yardley |
| In China, a Lake's Champion Imperils Himself / Joseph Kahn |
| Sowing for Apocalypse / John Seabrook |
| The Itch |
| Twitchy / Sallie Tisdale |
| The First Ache / Annie Murphy Paul |
| A Journey Inside the Brain |
| The Truth About Autism / David Wolman |
| Blocking the Transmission of Violence / Alex Kotlowitz |
| Reading the Wounds / Jina Moore |
| A Cloud of Smoke |
| War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing / John Horgan |
| Face-Offs of the Female Kind / Marina Cords |
| Tough Lessons from Golden Rice / Martin Enserink |
| Back to the Future / J. Madeleine Nash |
| A Tall, Cool Drink of . . . Sewage? / Elizabeth Royte |
| Contagious Cancer / David Quammen |
| Looking Up / Jennifer Margulis |
| Birdbrain |
| Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm / Gary Wolf |
| Hello, Hall |
| The Anonymity Experiment / Catherine Price |
| The Sky Is Falling / Gregg Easterbrook |
| Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? |
| The Final Frontier / Karen Olsson |
| Perhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life / Theresa Brown |
| Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain |
| Introduction / Oliver Sacks |
| The Forest Primeval / Peter Canby |
| 1491 / Charles C. Mann |
| The Learning Curve / Atul Gawande |
| A World of Their Own / Liza Mundy |
| The Melody Lingers On / Floyd Skloot |
