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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee (Editor) 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. — Foreword / Tom Fogler -- — Introduction: On tenderness / Siddhartha Mu... more »kherjee --
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 --
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