What makes the articles found in The Best American Science Writing 2004 the best? As Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, writes in her introduction, First and most important, all are extremely well written. This sounds obvious, and it is, but for me it means the pieces impart genuine pleasure via the writers' choice of words and the rhythm of their phrases ... 'I wish I'd written that, ' was my own frequent reaction to the articles I ultimately chose.This year, Jennifer Kahn's Stripped for Parts was selected as the lead story because, as Sobel reveals, it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read. In Columbia's Last Flight, William Langewiesche recounts the February 1, 2003, space shuttle tragedy, along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that brought the ship down. K. C. Cole's Fun with Physics is...
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