The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 [Paperback] Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Tim Folger | Language: English | ISBN:
0544003438 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
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- Series: Best American
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Mariner Books (October 8, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0544003438
- ISBN-13: 978-0544003439
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I've read other in the "The Best American________Writing" series but never the science and nature version. I've really enjoyed this compilation. I'm somebody who had a horrible experience with science in school, and discovered a love of it (and interest in) after college... so much so, that I went back and did a post-bac program.
While I read some of the magazines/journals featured in real life or online like "Scientific American", "The Atlantic", and "The New Yorker"--others such as "Orion" or "Playboy" aren't on my radar. A lot of the pieces came from "The New Yorker", but honestly--I didn't mind reading them again. I love this book (and the other in the series) because in 10 minutes or so, I can read an article that stimulates my mind and leaves me with at least one, usually many more, new pieces of information.
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J.B. MACKINNON. False Idyll
From Orion
BENJAMIN HALE. The Last Distinction?
From Harper's
TIM ZIMMERMANN. Talk to Me
From Outside
DAVID DEUTSCH and ARTUR EKERT. Beyond the Quantum Horizon
From Scientific American
MICHAEL MOYER. Is Space Digital?
From Scientific American
SYLVIA A. EARLE. The Sweet Spot in Time
From Virginia Quarterly Review
JOHN PAVLUS. Machines of the Infinite
From Scientific American
MICHELLE NIJHUIS. Which Species Will Live?
From Scientific American
RICK BASS. The Larch
From Orion
BRETT FORREST. Shattered Genius
From Playboy
JEROME GROOPMAN. The T-Cell Army
From The New Yorker
DAVID OWEN. The Artificial Leaf
From The New Yorker
MICHAEL SPECTER.
There is so much being written today that it is impossible to be sure you haven't missed something really worthwhile, and that is why I look forward each year to the latest in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. Each annual edition has two editors. Series editor Tim Folger collects candidate articles from general-interest periodicals such as the Atlantic and The New Yorker and more tailored publications like Scientific American, Popular Science, Orion, and the Virginia Quarterly Review and assures that the selections include a wide variety of science and nature topics. Each year he is joined by a different prominent scientist or science journalist, who makes the final selection of articles. As a result, each book has a fresh personality reflecting the guest editor's interests and intellectual bent.
This year's guest editor, Siddhartha Mukherjee, is a cancer physician and the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. In his thoughtful introduction, Mukherjee say that most of the essays he selected "share a common thread: they describe how science HAPPENS." Beyond that, the subject matter runs the gamut of science and nature, as evidenced in this partial list of the contents:
David Deutsch and Artur Ekert, Beyond the Quantum Horizon
Michael Moyer, Is Space Digital?
Sylvia A. Earle, The Sweet Spot in Time (about undersea exploration, NOT physics!)
Michelle Nijhuis, Which Species Will Live?
Jerome Groopman, The T-Cell Army
David Quammen, Out of the Wild
Oliver Sacks, Altered States
Steven Weinberg, The Crisis of Big Science
Gareth Cook, Autism, Inc.
Natalie Angier, The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
Nathaniel Rich, Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?
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