The best American science and nature writing 2013

Mukherjee, Siddhartha, (editor of compilation.). Folger, Tim, (series editor.). MacKinnon, J. B. (Added Author). Hale, Benjamin. (Added Author). Zimmermann, Tim. (Added Author). Deutsch, David. (Added Author). Ekert, Arthur. (Added Author). Moyer, Michael. (Added Author). Earle, Sylvia A. (Added Author). Pavlus, John. (Added Author). Nijhuis, Michelle. (Added Author). Bass, Rick. (Added Author). Forrest, Brett. (Added Author). Groopman, Jerome. (Added Author). Owen, David. (Added Author). Specter, Michael. (Added Author). Lightman, Alan. (Added Author). Quammen, David. (Added Author). Sacks, Oliver. (Added Author). Kolbert, Elizabeth. (Added Author). Gessen, Keith. (Added Author). Weinberg, Steven. (Added Author). Cook, Gareth. (Added Author). Angier, Natalie. (Added Author). Sapolsky, Robert M. (Added Author). Harmon, Katherine. (Added Author). Rich, Nathaniel. (Added Author). Marche, Stephen. (Added Author). Bowden, Mark. (Added Author). Dutton, Kevin. (Added Author).

Summary: Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.

Record details

ISBN: 0544003438
ISBN: 9780544003439
Physical Description: xxi, 339 pages ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Mariner original."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / Tom Fogler -- Introduction: On tenderness / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- False idyll from Orion / J.B. MacKinnon -- The last distinction from Harper's magazine / Benjamin Hale -- Talk to me from Outside / Tim Zimmerman -- Beyond the quantum horizon from Scientific American / David Deutsch and Artur Ekert -- Is space digital? from Scientific American / Michael Moyer -- The sweet spot in time from Virginia quarterly review / Sylvia A. Earle -- Machines of the infinite from Scientific American / John Pavlus -- Which species will live? from Scientific American / Michelle Nijhuis -- The larch g from Orion / Rick Bass -- Shattered genius from Playboy / Brett Forrest -- The T-cell army from New Yorker / Jerome Groopman -- The artificial leaf from New Yorker / David Owen -- The deadliest virus from New Yorker / Michael Specter -- Our place in the universe from Harper's magazine / Alan Lightman -- Out of the wild from Popular science / David Quammen -- Altered states from New Yorker / Oliver Sachs -- Recall of the wild from New Yorker / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Polar express from New Yorker / Keith Gessen -- The crisis of big science from New York review of books / Steven Weinberg -- Autism inc. from New York times magazine / Gareth Cook -- The life of pi and other infinities from New York times / Natalie Angier -- Super humanity from Scientific American/ Robert M. Sapolsky -- The patient scientist from Scientific American / Katherine Harmon -- Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? from New York times magazine / Nathaniel Rich -- Is Facebook making us lonely? from Atlantic / Stephen Marche -- The measured man from Atlantic / Mark Bowden -- The wisdom of psychpaths from Scientific American / Kevin Dutton -- Contributors' notes -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.