NATURE WRITING

The Struggle Over Science, by Harold Evans
Planet-Dissolving Dust Cloud is Headed Toward Earth!, Mike Foster, Weekly World News
A Moment of Truth:  Correcting the Scientific Errors in Gregg Easterbrook's "A Moment on the Earth", by Environmental Defense Fund
Kept in the Dark, by Christopher Brauchli

Table of Contents:

• An Evolutionist Looks At Modern Man, by Loren Eiseley

• Anatomy of a Rose -- Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers, by Sharman Apt Russell

• At the Gentle Mercy of Plants -- Essays and Poems, by Hildegarde Flanner

• Green Paradise Lost, by Elizabeth Dodson Gray

• Fabre's Book of Insects -- Retold From Alexander Teixeira De Mattos' Translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques," by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell

• Holdfast -- At Home in the Natural World, by Kathleen Dean Moore

• Man the Firemaker, by Loren Eiseley

• Moths of the Limberlost -- With Water Color and Photographic Illustrations from Life, by Gene Stratton-Porter

• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

• Sisters of the Earth -- Women's Prose & Poetry About Nature, by Lorraine Anderson

• The Dance of the Frogs, by Loren Eiseley

• The Firmament of Time, by Loren Eiseley

• The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits, by Charles Darwin

• The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley

• The Invisible Pyramid -- A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century, by Loren Eiseley

• The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin

• The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley

• The White Heart of Mojave -- An Adventure With the Outdoors of the Desert, by Edna Brush Perkins

• Woman and Nature -- The Roaring Inside Her, by Susan Griffin

Sharon Begley:

• A Spotless Mind May Ease Suffering, But Erase Identity

• Are Tainted Vaccines Given to Baby Boomers Now Causing Cancer?

• As the Stakes Increase, Prime-Number Theory Moves Closer to Proof

• Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human?

• Definition of Infinity Expands for Scientists and Mathematicians

• Early Cancer Detection Doesn't Always Give Patient an Advantage

• Evolutionary Psych May Not Help Explain Our Behavior After All

• Fluoridation, Cancer:  Did Researchers Ask the Right Questions?

• 'Gene Pill' Offers Alternative to Shots

• Grandma's Behavior While Pregnant Impacts Lineage

• How Brief Drop in Cars Can Trigger Tie-Ups, And Other Traffic Tales

• Hurricane Forecasters Try Model That Focuses on Chances of Landfall

• Imprinted Genes Offer Key to Some Diseases

• Improved Formula in England, Girls are Closing Gap with Boys in Math

• Interrogation Methods Can Elicit Confessions From Innocent People

• Religion and the Brain

• How Brief Drop in Cars Triggers Traffic

• How Do I Love Thee?  Let Me Count the Ways--And Other Bad Ideas

• Man-Made Mistakes Increase Devastation of 'Natural' Disasters

• Mission on the Cheap Will Launch Spaceship That Uses Solar Sails

• Scientists Research Questions Few Others Would Bother to Ask

• Simulations of Attacks By Terrorists Illustrate Challenge Officials Face

• So Much For Destiny:  Even Thoughts Can Turn Genes 'On' and 'Off'

• Study of the Cosmos Proceeds, But Will Take New Directions

• Study Says Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger

• Theory Men Are Wired To Kill Straying Mates is Offensive and Wrong

• U.S. Science Research Is In Danger of Losing Place on Cutting Edge

• Very Old Eggs Reveal A Fast, Changing Path Through Evolution

• Water-Flea Case Shows That Ability to Adapt is What's Really Innate

• Why Just Detecting Hidden Explosives May Not Cut Deaths

• Why George Gershwin May Have Called It 'Rhapsody in Blue'
• Yes, Evolution Still Has Unanswered Questions; That's How Science Is

John Horgan:

• Brain Chips and Other Dreams of the Cyber-Evangelists
• Can a Single Brain Cell Think?
• Do Our Genes Influence Behavior?
• In Defense of Common Sense
• Keeping the Faith in My Doubt
• Is War in Our Genes?
• More Than Good Intentions: Holding Fast to Faith in Free Will
• Peyote on the Brain
• The Myth of Mind Control
• The Psychedelic Sorcerer