The best American science and nature writing 2013 / edited and with an introduction by Siddhartha Mukherjee ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Contributor(s): Mukherjee, Siddhartha [editor of compilation.] | Folger, Tim [series editor.] | Sacks, Oliver W.
Series: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013Description: xxi, 339 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780544003439.Subject(s): Science -- Literary collections | Nature -- Literary collections | Natural history -- Literary collections | Technical writingGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"A Mariner original."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
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.
Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.