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Table of Contents
2000-Foreword
Introduction : The vine-tree / by David Quammen
Men, women, sex, and Darwin / Natalie Angier
Back to the land / Wendell Berry
Africa's wild dogs / Richard Conniff
http://www.wheniÌøseÌønougheÌønough?.com / Paul de Palma
Something happened / Helen Epstein
Under water / Anne Fadiman
The cancer-cluster myth / Atul Gawande
Clock of ages / Brian Hayes
That sense of falling / Edward Hoagland
A new germ theory / Judith Hopper
Heavy grace / Wendy Johnson
The wisdom of toads / Ken Lamberton
The island at the end of the earth / Peter Matthiessen
Lulu, Queen of the Camels / Cullen Murphy
The demon in the freezer / Richard Preston
Brilliant light / Oliver Sacks
This is not the place / Hampton Sides
Gorilla warfare / Craig B. Stanford
String theorists find a Rosetta Stone / Gary Taubes
Contributors' notes
Other notable science and nature writing of 1999.
2001-Iterations of immortality / David Berlinski
To save a watering hole / Mark Cherrington
New life in a death trap / Edwin Dobb
Abortion and brain waves / Gregg Easterbrook
Baby steps / Malcolm Gladwell
In the forests of Gombe / Jane Goodall
The doubting disease / Jerome Groopman
The recycled generation
Stephen S. Hall
Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich
Harpy eagles / Edward Hoagland
Why the future doesn't need us / Bill Joy
A killing at dawn / Ted Kerasote
Seeing scarlet / Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp
The best clock in the world / Verlyn Klinkenborg
The wild world's Scotland Yard / Jon R. Luoma
Breeding discontent / Cynthia Mills
Ice station Vostok / Oliver Morton
Being prey / Val Plumwood
Troubled waters / Sandra Postel
The genome warrior / Richard Preston
Megatransect / David Quammen
Inside the volcano / Donovan Webster.
2002-Violent pride / Roy F. Baumeister
Braised shank of free-range possum? / Burkhard Bilger
Mind over matter / K.C. Cole
In the realm of virtual reality / Richard Conniff and Harry Marshall
Saving us from Darwin / Frederick C. Crews
Welcome to cancerland / Barbara Ehrenreich
The most important fish in the sea / H. Bruce Franklin
Examined life / Malcolm Gladwell
As good as dead / Gary Greenberg
Is that a mountain lion in your backyard? / Gordon Grice
The dirt in the new machine / Blaine Harden
Life's rocky start / Robert M. Hazen
Mothers and others / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Sound and fury / Garret Keizer
The pursuit of innocence in the golden state / Verlyn Klinkenborg
Ripe for controversy / Robert Kunzig
Wall Street losses, Wall Street gains / Anne Matthews
Dumb, dumb duh dumb / Steve Mirsky
"I have seen cancers disappear" / Judith Newman
How Islam won, and lost, the lead in science / Dennis Overbye
A little reminder of reality's scale / Chet Raymo
Why McDonald's fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser
Shock and disbelief / Daniel Smith
The sting of the assassin / Peter Stark
The know-it-all machine / Clive Thompson
One acre / Joy Williams
Very dark energy / Karen Wright.
2003-Weighing the Grandma factor / Natalie Angier
At home in the heavens / Tim Appenzeller
Four ears to the ground / Alan Burdick
A skeptical look at September 11th / Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris
DNA as destiny / David Ewing Duncan
Astronomy's new stars / Timothy Ferris
Terminal ice / Ian Frazier
Finding a wild, fearsome world beneath every fallen leaf / James Gorman
My mother, the scientist / Charles Hirshberg
Embryo police / Brendan I. Koerner
Ice memory / Elizabeth Kolbert
Treasure under Saddam's feet / Andrew Lawler
False testament / Daniel Lazare
Memory faults and fixes / Elizabeth F. Loftus
Homeland insecurity / Charles C. Mann
It's easy being green / Bill McKibben
The royal we / Steve Olson
A new view of our universe / Dennis Overbye
The blank slate / Steven Pinker
Anybody out there? / Oliver Sacks
The fully immersive mind of Oliver Sacks / Steve Silberman
Fat heads sink ships / Adam Summers
What if it's all been a big fat lie? / Gary Taubes
Sounding the alarm / Bruce Watson
The very best telescope / William Speed Weed
Raising the dead / Scott Weidensaul
The truth about missile defense / Steven Weinberg
Maine's war on coyotes / Ted Williams
The bottleneck / Edward O. Wilson.
2004-Genesis of suicide terrorism / Scott Atran
The battle for your brain / Ronald Bailey
Fearing the worst should anyone produce a cloned baby / Philip M. Boffey
The bittersweet science / Austin Bunn
The new celebrity / Jennet Conant
The mythical threat of genetic determinism / Daniel C. Dennett
We're all gonna die! / Gregg Easterbrook
Far-out television / Garrett G. Fagan
A war on obesity, not the obese / Jeffrey M. Friedman
Desperate measures / Atul Gawande
The stuff of genes / Horace Freeland Judson
The bloody crossroads of grammar and politics / Geoffrey Nunberg
Ask the bird folks / Mike O'Connor
Where have all the Lisas gone? / Peggy Orenstein
The design of your life / Virginia Postrel
Caring for your introvert / Jonathan Rauch
All the old sciences have starring roles / Chet Raymo
Sex week at Yale / Ron Rosenbaum
The cousin marriage conundrum / Steve Sailer
Bugs in the brain / Robert Sapolsky
Through the eye of an octopus / Eric Scigliano
Captivated / Meredith F. Small
Parallel universes / Max Tegmark
In click languages, an echo of the tongues of the ancients / Nicholas Wade
A prolific Genghis Khan, it seems, helped people the world / Nicholas Wade.
2005-My God problem - and theirs / Natalie Angier
Hollywood science / Connie Bruck
Out, damned blot! / Frederick Crews
Twilight at Easter / Jared Diamond
My little brother on drugs / Jenny Everett
Stumbling into space / Timothy Ferris
Getting over it / Malcolm Gladwell
Personality plus / Malcolm Gladwell
The grief industry / Jerome Groopman
Keeping the faith in my doubt / John Horgan
The homeless hacker v. The New York Times / Jennifer Kahn
20,000 microbes under the sea / Robert Kunzig
A two-planet species? William Langewiesche
Crossing the red line / Bill McKibben
Please stand by while the age of miracles is briefly suspended / James McManus
Getting in nature's way / Sherwin B. Nuland
The man or the moment? / Sherwin B. Nuland
To hell and back / Jeffrey M. O'Brien
The X prize / Ian Parker
In the river of consciousness / Oliver Sacks
Miracle in a bottle / Michael Specter
The curious history of the first pocket calculator / Cliff Stoll
Dining with robots / Ellen Ullman
106 science claims and a truckful of baloney / William Speed Weed
Whose life would you save? / Carl Zimmer.
2006-Almost before we spoke, we swore / Natalie Angier
Dr ecstasy / Drake Bennett
His brain, her brain / Larry Cahill
My bionic quest for bolero / Michael Chorost
Show me the science / Daniel C. Dennett
How animals do business / Frans B. M. De Waal
Buried answers / David Dobbs
Conservative refugees / Mark Dowie
The blogs of war / John Hockenberry
The forgotten era of brain chips / John Horgan
The mysteries of mass / Gordon Kane
Future shocks / Kevin Krajick
The mummy doctor / Kevin Krajick
X-ray vision / Robert Kunzig
The illusion of gravity / Juan Maldacena
The coming death shortage / Charles C. Mann
The Dover monkey trial / Chris Mooney
Remembrance of things future / Dennis Overbye
Out of time / Paul Raffaele
Torrential Reign / Daniel Roth
Are antibiotics killing us? / Jessica Snyder Sachs
Remembering Francis Crick / Oliver Sacks
Buried suns / David Samuels
Lights, camera, Armageddon / Josh Schollmeyer
Taming lupus / Moncef Zouali.
2007-Introduction / by Gina Kolata
The theory of everything / Tyler Cabot
Manifold destiny / Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber
Looking for the lie / Robin Marantz Henig
Face blind / Joshua Davis
Stereo Sue / Oliver Sacks
Probling a mind for cure / Stacey Burling
A depression switch? / David Dobbs
With lasers and daring, doctors race to save a young man's brain / Denise Grady
Being there / Jerome Groopman
God or gorilla / Matthew Chapman
The score / Atul Gawande
Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin
The man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman
Butterfly lessons / Elizabeth Kolbert
In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warmilng / William J. Broad
John Koza has built an invention machine / Jonathon Keats
Mind games / John Cassidy
Schweitzer's dangerous discovery / Barry Yeoman
Cooking for eggheads / Patricia Gadsby
Hollywood's science guru / Gregory Mone.
2008-Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal / Jon Cohen
The interpreter / John Colapinto
The universe's invisible hand / Christopher J. Conselice
Untangling the mystery of the Inca / Gareth Cook
Restoring America's big, wild animals / C. Josh Donlan
Our biotech future / Freeman Dyson
The coming robot army / Steve Featherstone
Malaria: stopping a global killer / Michael Finkel
The first assassination of the twenty-first century / James Geary
Our silver-coated future / Robin Marantz Henig
Children are diamonds / Edward Hoagland
The selfless gene / Olivia Judson
The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn
First churches of the Jesus cult / Andrew Lawler
A curious attractions / Jon Mooallem
Swingers / Ian Parker
Science and Islam in conflict / Todd Pitock
Deadly contact / David Quammen
How to trick an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood / Ron Rosenbaum
A bolt from the blue / Oliver Sacks
Darwin's surprise / Michael Specter
The CSI effect / Jeffrey Toobin
Numbers can lie / Andreas von Bubnoff
A mighty wind / Florence Williams.
2009-Foreword
Introduction / by Elizabeth Kolbert
Faustian economics / Wendell Berry
The ethics of climate change / John Broome
Is Google making us stupid? / Nicholas Carr
High-tech trash / Chris Carroll
Intel inside / Andrew Curry
Blown apart / Keay Davidson
Did life begin in ice? / Douglas Fox
The day before Genesis / Adam Frank
The itch / Atul Gawande
The mushroom cloud's silver lining / David Grimm
Last of the Neanderthals / Stephen S. Hall
Virtual Iraq / Sue Halpern
Chain reaction / Walter Issacson
Wasteland / Frederick Kaufman
Minds of their own / Virginia Morell
Back to the future / J. Madeleine Nash
To take wilderness in hand / Michelle Nijhuis
How we evolve / Benjamin Phelan
Pop psychology / Virginia Postrel
Contagious cancer / David Quammen
The reality tests / Joshua Roebke
Darwin and the meaning of flowers / Oliver Sacks
Animalcules and other little subjects / Mark A. Smith
Big foot / Michael Specter
Red is the new green / Patrick Symmes
Stayin' alive / Gary Wolf.
2010-The believer / Andrew Corsello
One giant leap to nowhere / Tom Wolfe
The missions of astronomy / Steven Weinberg
Cosmic vision / Timothy Ferris
Seeking new earths / Timothy Ferris
Don't! / Jonah Lehrer
Out of the past / Kathleen McGowan
Brain games / John Colapinto
The alpha accipiter / Gustave Axelson
Flight of the Kuaka / Don Stap
Modern Darwins / Matt Ridley
The superior civilization / Tim Flannery
Still blue / Kenneth Brower
The Lazarus effect / Jane Goodall
Darwin's first clues / David Quammen
All you can eat / Jim Carrier
A formula for disaster / Felix Salmon
Not so silent spring / Dawn Stover
The Catastrophist / Elizabeth Kolbert
The sixth extinction Elizabeth Kolbert
Scraping bottom / Robert Kunzig
A life of its own / Michael Specter
Purpose-driven life / Brian Boyd
The monkey and the fish / Philip Gourevitch
Graze anatomy / Richard Manning
Hearth surgery / Burkhard Bilger
Green Giant / Evan Osnos
India, enlightened / George Black.
2011-The organ dealer / Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Nature's spoils / Burkhard Bilger
The chemist's war / Deborah Blum
Fertility rites / Jon Cohen
The brain that changed everything / Luke Dittrich
Emptying the skies / Jonathan Franzen
Fish out of water / Ian Frazier
Lies, damned lies, and medical science / David H. Freedman
Letting go / Atul Gawande
The treatment / Malcolm Gladwell
Cosmic blueprint of life / Andrew Grant
The (elusive) theory of everything / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Spectral light / Amy Irvine
The spill seekers / Rowan Jacobsen
New dog in town / Christopher Ketcham
Taking a fall / Dan Koeppel
The first church of robotics / Jaron Lanier
The love that dare not squawk its name / Jon Mooallem
Could time end? / George Musser
Sign here if you exist / Jill Sisson Quinn
Face-blind / Oliver Sacks
Waste MGMT / Evan I. Schwartz
The whole fracking enchilada / Sandra Steingraber
The new king of the sea / Abigail Tucker
The killer in the pool / Tim Zimmermann.
2012-pt. 1. Bacteria/microorganisms: The teeming metropolis of you / Brendan Buhler. Our body the ecosystem / Virginia Hughes. The peanut puzzle / Jerome Groopman
pt. 2. Animals: The long, curious, extravagant evolution of feathers / Carl Zimmer. How to hatch a dinosaur / Thomas Hayden. Faster, higher, squeakier / Michael Behar. The wipeout gene / Bijal P. Trivedi. Deep intellect / Sy Montgomery. Ants & the art of war / Mark W. Moffett
pt. 3. Humans (the good): The scent of your thoughts / Deborah Blum. Sleeping with the enemy / Elizabeth Kolbert. The touchy-feely (but totally scientific!) methods of Wallace J. Nichols / Michael Roberts
pt. 4. Humans (the bad): The feedback loop / Thomas Goetz. What you don't know can kill you / Jason Daley. Beautiful brains / David Dobbs. The brain on trial / David Eagleman
pt. 5. Society and environment: Crush point / John Seabrook. Ill wind / David Kirby. The city solution / Robert Kunzig
pt. 6. Technology: Test-tube burgers / Michael Specter. Mad science / Mark McClusky. Dream machine / Rivka Galchen. The crypto-currency / Joshua Davis
Mind vs. machine / Brian Christian.
2013-Foreword / Tom Fogler
Introduction: On tenderness / Siddhartha Mukherjee
False idyll from Orion / J.B. MacKinnon
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
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
Larch g from Orion / Rick Bass
Shattered genius from Playboy / Brett Forrest
T-cell army from New Yorker / Jerome Groopman
Artificial leaf from New Yorker / David Owen
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
Crisis of big science from New York review of books / Steven Weinberg
Autism inc. from New York times magazine / Gareth Cook
Life of pi and other infinities from New York times / Natalie Angier
Super humanity from Scientific American/ Robert M. Sapolsky
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
Measured man from Atlantic / Mark Bowden
Wisdom of psychpaths from Scientific American / Kevin Dutton
Contributors' notes
Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.
2014-Mixed up / Katherine Bagley
The great forgetting / Nicholas Carr
The social life of genes / David Dobbs
What our telescopes couldn't see / Pippa Goldschmidt
A race to save the orange by altering its DNA / Amy Harmon
A life-or-death situation / Robin Marantz Henig
23 and you / Ferris Jabr
O-rings / Sarah Stewart Johnson
When animals mourn / Barbara J. King
Where it begins / Barbara Kingsolver
Danger! This mission to Mars could bore you to death! / Maggie Koerth-Baker
The lost world / Elizabeth Kolbert
Awakening / Joshua Lang
Imagining the post-antibiotics future / Maryn McKenna
The return of measles / Seth Mnookin
Ants go marching / Justin Nobel
TV as birth control / Fred Pearce
The madness of the planets / Corey S. Powell
Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton
Under water / Kate Sheppard
Twelve ways of viewing Alaska's wild, white sheep / Bill Sherwonit
The separating sickness / Rebecca Solnit
Trapline / David Treuer
The rebirth of Gorongosa / E.O. Wilson
Bringing them back to life / Carl Zimmer.
2015-Foreword / by Tim Folger
Introduction / by Rebecca Skloot
Waiting for light / Jake Abrahamson
In deep / Burkhard Bilger
A question of corvids / Sheila Webster Boneham
The health effects of a world without darkness / Rebecca Boyle
Spotted hyena / Alison Hawthorne Deming
Life, death, and grim routine fill the day at a Liberian ebola clinic / Sheri Fink
No risky chances / Atul Gawande
Linux for lettuce / Lisa M. Hamilton
Down by the river / Rowan Jacobsen
The empathy exams : a medical actor writes her own script / Leslie Jamison
The deepest dig / Brooke Jarvis
Phineas Gage, neuroscience's most famous patient / Sam Kean
At risk / Jourdan Imani Keith
Desegregating wilderness / Jourdan Imani Keith
Into the maelstrom / Eli Kintisch
The big kill / Elizabeth Kolbert
Digging through the world's oldest graveyard / Amy Maxmen
One of a kind / Seth Mnookin
A pioneer as elusive as his particle / Dennis Overbye
Blood in the sand / Matthew Power
Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer
Partial recall / Michael Specter
The city and the sea / Meera Subramanian
Curious / Kim Todd
The aftershocks / David Wolman
From billions to none / Barry Yeoman.
2016-Back to the land / Chelsea Biondolillo
Tracking ivory / Bryan Christy
They helped erase ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia is erasing them / Helene Cooper
Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich
Why are sports bras so terrible? / Rose Eveleth
The man who tried to redeem the world with logic / Amanda Gefter
A very naughty little girl / Rose George
The false gospel of Alcoholics Anonymous / Gabrielle Glaser
Thirty million gallons under the sea / Antonia Juhasz
The bed-rest hoax / Alexandra Kleeman
The siege of Miami / Elizabeth Kolbert
What's left behind / Kea Krause
The will to change / Robert Kunzig
The modern moose / Amy Leach
The lost girls / Apoorva Mandavilli
Solar, eclipsed / Charles c. Mann
Return of the wild / Emma Marris
Perfect nails, poisoned workers / Sarah Maslin Nir
Attack of the killer beetles / Maddie Oatman
The whole universe catalog / Stephen Ornes
Bugged / Rinku Patel
My periodic table / Oliver Sacks
The really big one / Kathryn Schulz
Begin cutting / Gaurav Raj Telhan
Telescope wars / Katie Worth.
2017-The art of saving relics / Sarah Everts
Altered tastes / Maria Konnikova
The secrets of the wave pilots / Kim Tingley
The billion-year wave / Nicola Twilley
The case for leaving city rats alone / Becca Cudmore
The battle for Virunga / Robert Draper
The new harpoon / Tom Kizzia
A song of ice / Elizabeth Kolbert
Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air / Adrian Glick Kudler
Dark science / Omar Mouallem
The parks of tomorrow / Michelle Nijhuis
How factory farms play chicken with antibiotics / Tom Philpott
The invisible catastrophe / Nathaniel Rich
The devil is in the details / Christopher Solomon
The physics pioneer who walked away from it all / Sally Davies
The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene / David Epstein
Inside the breakthrough starshot mission to Alpha Centauri / Ann Finkbeiner
He fell in love with his good student
Then fired her for it / Azeen Ghorayshi
The woman who might find us another Earth / Chris Jones
Out here, no one can hear you scream / Katrhryn Joyce
The amateur cloud society that (sort of) rattled the scientific community / Jon Mooallem
The man who gave himself away / Michael Regnier
Unfriendly climate / Sonia Smith
It's time these ancient women scientists get their due / Emily Temple-Wood.
2018-Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Transformative science: "We are not just resistors, we are transformers." Pleistocene park / Ross Anderson ; It'll take an army to kill the Emperor / Jacqueline Detwiler
Part II: Rethining established science: "What do we want? Evidence-based science. When do we want it? After peer review." The squeeze : Silicon Valley reinvents the breast pump / Sophie Brickman ; The case against civilization / John Lanchester ; Cancer's invasion equation / Siddhartha Mukherjee ; The island wolves / Kim Todd
Part III: Environmental science: "At the start of every disaster movie is a scientist being ignored." Firestorm / Douglas Fox ; Tragedy of the common / J.B. MacKinnon ; The irreversible momentum of clean energy / Barack Obama ; Wealthier people produce more carbon pollution
even the "green" ones / David Roberts
Part IV: Profiles: "So bad, even the introverts are here." Dr. Space Junk unearths the cultural landscape of the cosmos / Ceridwen Dovey ; Of mothers and monkeys / Caitlin Kuehn ; David Haskell speaks for the trees / Paul Kvinta ; A science of the soul / Joshua Rothman ; The detective of Northern oddities / Christopher Solomon
Part V. Political science: "I'm not a mad scientist
I'm absolutely furious." Female scientists report a horrifying culture of sexual assault / Kayla Webley Adler ; A behind-the-scenes look at Scott Pruitt's dysfunctional EPA / Rachel Leven
Part VI: Space science: "It's not rocket science ... (actually, some of it is)." Two stars slammed into each other and solved half of astronomy's problems. What comes next? / Rebecca Boyle ; The starship or the canoe / Kenneth Brower ; Astonish me : anticipating an eclipse in the age of information / Susannah Felts ; Greetings, E.T. (Please don't murder us.) / Steven Johnson ; Arabella (Araneus diadematus / Elena Passarello ; Tiny jumping spiders can see the moon / Ed Yong
Part VII: Neuroscience and psychology: "Stop inhibiting my action potential" When your child is a psychopath / Barbara Bradley Hagerty ; Exposure therapy and the fine art of scaring the shit our of yourself on purpose / Eva Holland ; Fantastic beasts and how to rank them / Kathryn Schulz
Contributors' notes
Other notable science and nature writing of 2017.
2019-Foreword
Introduction
A compassionate substance (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Philip Ball
The search for alien life begins in earth's oldest desert (from The Atlantic) / Rebecca Boyle
Glimpses of a mass extinction in modern-day western New York (from The New Yorker) / Peter Brannen
This sand is your sand (from Outside) / Chris Colin
The brain, reimagined (from Scientific American) / Dougals Fox
Little golden flower-room: on wild places and intimacy (from The Millions) / Conor Gearin
The endling: watching a species vanish in real time (from Pacific Standard) / Ben Goldfarb
What if the placebo effect is not a trick? (from The New York Times Magazine) / Gary Greenberg
The great rhino U-turn (from Mongabay) / Jeremy Hance
The fading star: a constellation (from Lapham's Quarterly) / Holly Haworth
Saving baby boy green (from Wired) / Eva Holland
The fire at Eagle Creek (from Topic) / Apricot Irving
Deleting a species (from Pacific Standard) / Rowan Jacobsen
The insect apocalypse is here (from The New York Times Magazine) / Brooke Jarvis
No heart, no moon (from The Southern Review) / Matt Jones
The scientific detectives probing the secrets of ancient oracles (from Atlas Obscura) / Kevin Krajick
Your really don't want to know what it's like to be a right whale these days (from Atlantic) / J.B. MacKinnon
How extreme weather is shrinking the planet (from The New Yorker) / Bill McKibben
The story of a face (from The New Yorker) / Rebecca Mead
How to not die in America (from Splinter) / Molly Osberg
Why paper jams persist (from The New Yorker) / Joshua Rothman
The professor of horrible deeds (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) / Jordan Michael Smith
Welcome to the center of the universe (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone
The hidden toll: why are black mothers and babies in the United States dying at more than double the rate of white mothers and babies? The answer has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America (from The New York Times Magazine) / Linda Vilarosa
When the next plague hits (from The Atlantic) / Ed Yong
Paper trails: living and dying with fragmented medical records (from Undark) / Ilana Yurkiewicz.
2020-A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen
Sleep no more (from Wired) / Kelly Clancy
What remains (from The California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane
With a simple twist, a "magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta Magazine) / David H. Freedman
The eighth continent (from The New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen
The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain signal that questioned free will (from The Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour
Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik
Right under our noses (from Wired) / Sara Harrison
I, language robot (from Los Angeles Review of Books) / Patrick House
Beauty of the beasts (from The New York Times Magazine) / Ferris Jabr
Ghosts of the future (from The Washington Post ) / Sarah Kaplan
Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / Adam Mann
Total eclipse (from Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool
"We have fire everywhere" (from The New York Times Magazine) / Jon Mooallem
Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer
New blood (from The New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee
The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston
The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth
The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook
Troubled treasure (from Science Magazine) / Joshua Sokol
The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta Magazine) / Joshua Sokol
The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone
A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover
The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski.
2021-This overlooked variable is the key to the pandemic / Zeynep Tufekci
They say Coronavirus isn't airborne
but it's definitely bourne by air / Roxanne Khamsi
The difference between feeling safe and being safe / Amanda Mull
I'm an ER doctor in New York. None of us will ever be the same / Helen Ouyang
The Covid drug wars that pitted doctor vs. doctor / Susan Dominus
The soft butch that couldn't (or: I got Covid-19 in March and never got better) / Heather Hogan
What happened in Room 10? / Katie Engelhart
It's not too late to save Black lives / Julia Craven
The scramble to pluck 24 billion cherries in eight weeks / Brooke Jarvis
Rabbit fever / Susan Orlean
An atlas of the cosmos / Shannon Stirone
Periwinkle, the color of poison, Modernism, and dusk / Katy Kelleher
The unsung heroine of lichenology / Sabrina Imbler
Happiness won't save you / Jennifer Senior
Out there, nobody can hear you scream / Latria Graham
The empty space where normal once lived / Bathsheba Demuth
This is how we live now / Emily Raboteau
What the Coronavirus means for climate change / Meehan Crist
River of time / Namwali Serpell
Fish out of water / Maya L. Kapoor
Cancel earthworms / Julia Rosen
Long may they reign / Nora Caplan-Bricker
A toxic secret lurks in deep sea / Rosanna Xia
SpaceX is taking over a tiny Texas neighborhood / Marina Koren
The friendship and love hospital / Jiayang Fan
The last children of Down Syndrome / Sarah Zhang.
2022-Nature is magnificent. The body's most embarrassing organ is an evolutionary marvel / Katherine J. Wu ; What slime knows / Lacy M. Johnson ; Too big for the universe / Arianna S. Long ; Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes / Bob Holmes ; How far does wildlife roam? Ask the "internet of animals" / Sonia Shah
Nature is roiled. Our summer from hell / Jeff Goodell ; How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities / Kendra Pierre-Louis ; How we drained California dry / Mark Arax ; The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere / Lisa Song and James Temple ; In the oceans, the volume is rising as never before / Sabrina Imbler ; The nature of plastics / Meera Sabramanian
Humans are a part of nature. Black bears, black liberation / Rae Wynn-Grant ; Finding freedom in the natural world / Cynthia R. Greenlee ; Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements / Julia Rosen ; Poisoned
Part 1: The factory / Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, and Eli Murray ; Future moves / Yessenia Funes ; There's a clear fix to helping black communities fight pollution / Rachel Ramirez ; To be a field of poppies / Lisa Wells
Ways of knowing. To hell with drowning / Julian Aguon ; To speak of the sea in Irish / Claudia Geib ; A tight-knit island nation hopes to rebuild while preserving "the barbudan way" / Mikki K. Harris ; Thriving together: salmon, berries, and people / Cuagilarkv (Jess Hausti) ; Your face is not your own / Kashmir Hill ; Quantum enlightenment / Ruth Robertson
Futures we could have. Why combining farms and solar panels could transform how we produce both food and energy / Chris Malloy ; A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world / Sarah Kaplan ; Power shift / Justine Calma ; Beavers are firefighters who work for free / Lucy Sherriff ; New wind projects power local budgets in Wyoming / Jane C. Hu ; Work from home, fave the planet? Ehhh / Emily Atkin ; In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows the world how to live alongside nature / Shira Rubin ; A river reawakened / Jessica Plumb ; There's a global plan to conserve nature. Indigenous people could lead the way / Somini Sengupta, Catrin Einhorn, and Manuela Andreoni.
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Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co./Harper Collins Publisher, 2000-.
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Physical Desc
volumes ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Annual.
Dates of publication and/or sequential designation
2000-
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(2000). The best American science and nature writing . Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co./Harper Collins Publisher.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)2000. The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co./Harper Collins Publisher.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)The Best American Science and Nature Writing Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co./Harper Collins Publisher, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)The Best American Science and Nature Writing Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Co./Harper Collins Publisher, 2000.
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