The best American science writing 2000

When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande

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? / Timothy Ferris

Journey to the center of my mind / Stephen S. Hall

Gray area: thinking with a damaged brain / Floyd Skloot

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 / Oliver Sacks

Lab notes / Don Asher

Furs for evening, but cloth was the Stone Age standby / Natalie Angier

A division of worms / Stephen Jay Gould

Must dog eat dog? / Susan McCarthy

Einstein's clocks: the place of time / Peter Galison

A designer universe? / Steven Weinberg