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The best American science and nature writing 2013 /

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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Mukherjee, Siddhartha (Editor), Folger, Tim (Editor), MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard), 1970-, Hale, Benjamin, Zimmermann, Tim, Deutsch, David, 1953-, Ekert, Artur K., 1961-, Moyer, Michael, Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-, Pavlus, John, Nijhuis, Michelle, Bass, Rick, 1958-, Forrest, Brett, Groopman, Jerome E., Owen, David, 1955-, Specter, Michael, Lightman, Alan P., 1948-, Quammen, David, 1948-, Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, Kolbert, Elizabeth, Gessen, Keith, Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021, Cook, Gareth, 1969-, Angier, Natalie, Sapolsky, Robert M., Courage, Katherine Harmon, Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-, Marche, Stephen, Bowden, Mark, 1951-, Dutton, Kevin, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston [Massachusetts] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Series:Best American series.
Subjects:
Science > Literary collections.
Nature > Literary collections.
Natural history > Literary collections.
Technical writing > Literary collections.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.