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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
By Siddhartha Mukherjee and Tim Folger
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Twenty-seven of America’s best science and nature essays of 2013, selected by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Gene.
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.
The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2013 includes:
“The T-Cell Army” by Jerome Groopman
“The Artificial Leaf” by David Owen
“The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities” by Natalie Angier
“Altered States” by Oliver Sacks
“Recall of the Wild” by Elizabeth Kolbert
“Super Humanity” by Robert M. Sapolsky
“Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?” by Nathaniel Rich
Contributors also include:
J. B. Mackinnon · Benjamin Hale · Tim Zimmermann · David Deutsch and Artur Ekert · Michael Moyer · Sylvia A. Earle · John Pavlus · Michelle Nijhuis · Rick Bass · Michael Specter · Alan Lightman · David Quammen · Keith Gessen · Steven Weinberg · Gareth Cook · Katherine Harmon · Stephen Marche · Mark Bowden · Kevin Dutton
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.
The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2013 includes:
“The T-Cell Army” by Jerome Groopman
“The Artificial Leaf” by David Owen
“The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities” by Natalie Angier
“Altered States” by Oliver Sacks
“Recall of the Wild” by Elizabeth Kolbert
“Super Humanity” by Robert M. Sapolsky
“Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?” by Nathaniel Rich
Contributors also include:
J. B. Mackinnon · Benjamin Hale · Tim Zimmermann · David Deutsch and Artur Ekert · Michael Moyer · Sylvia A. Earle · John Pavlus · Michelle Nijhuis · Rick Bass · Michael Specter · Alan Lightman · David Quammen · Keith Gessen · Steven Weinberg · Gareth Cook · Katherine Harmon · Stephen Marche · Mark Bowden · Kevin Dutton
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've been slowly making my way through these Best American Science and Nature Writing collections from a few years ago. So far I've read the 2011, 2012, and now the 2013 editions. I've enjoyed all of them, but I think this might be my favorite of the three. Some of these essays, admittedly, have more worthwhile things to say than others, but I found all of them interesting, at least, and many of them very well-written. 2013's editor, Siddhartha Mukherjee, says he mostly tried to pick pieces he felt were about the process of doing science, rather than just about interesting results, which I approve of. But even more than that, it seems to me that most of these essays and articles feature, or at least tie in to, the asking of very big, broad questions about life, humanity, the universe, and the future. Also, for what it's worth, while the previous two volumes seemed to skew very heavily towards technology and biological and environmental sciences, this one has at least a fair bit of representation for subjects like physics and cosmology as well.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 2013 installment of the annual series, edited this year by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer), contains 27 essays drawn heavily from Scientific American and The New Yorker plus a dozen other prominent publications. (An Appendix references another 40 “Notable” essays for further exploration.)I dipped in and out of the anthology and, because most of the entries are short (10-12pp), I usually read two or three each time I dipped in. They’re accessibly written and smart; surprisingly (and probably due to editor Mukherjee’s influence), I’d also characterize them as gentle. Some address hard science but many have themes of psychology, sociology, philosophy and ethics. Several paired well with books I’ve read this year -- for example, the employer of autistic persons in Gareth Cook’s “Autism Inc.” and a similar employer in Temple Grandin’s The Autistic Brain; the evolution in Robert Sapolsky’s “Super Humanity” and the health effects on contemporary humans explored in Daniel Lieberman’s The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease.One essay that seemed barely on-topic -- Brett Forrest’s pursuit of a reclusive Russian math genius (“Shattered Genius” from Playboy) -- emerged as my favorite with its tender and compelling narrative; I want to read more by him. In fact, I wonder why I let some years slip by without reading this series, and this excellent volume inspires me to remedy that.(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)
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