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“Undeniably exquisite . . .�The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus Reviews
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year’s�top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
- Sales Rank: #41846 in Books
- Brand: Blum, Deborah (EDT)/ Folger, Tim (EDT)
- Published on: 2014-10-07
- Released on: 2014-10-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .88" w x 5.50" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From the Back Cover
The Best American Series
In an era of misleading headlines and cherry picked facts, good science reporting is hard to find. We’re left wondering, should we eat genetically modified food? Do we really want to know if we have an incurable genetic disease before the symptoms appear? The articles in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 challenge these questions, and many others, with guest editor Deborah Blum striving to show readers the “curving, complicated line that links discovery and development, choice and consequence.” At times meditative, passionate, and always deeply inquisitive, the articles in this collection reveal our world and ourselves, both beautiful and astonishingly complex.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 includes
Nicholas Carr, Amy Harmon, Barbara Kingsolver, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Elizabeth Kolbert, Seth Mnookin, E.O. Wilson, Carl Zimmer and others
[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO, Author photo � Mark Bennington] DEBORAH BLUM, guest editor, is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and the author of five books, including The Poisoner's Handbook. She writes about environmental chemistry for The New York Times at Poison Pen and is a blogger for Wired at Elemental.
TIM FOLGER, series editor, is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines.
Author photo � Mark Bennington
About the Author
DEBORAH BLUM is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and the author of five books, including The Poisoner's Handbook. She writes about environmental chemistry for The New York Times at Poison Pen and is a blogger for Wired at Elemental.
TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines.
Most helpful customer reviews
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
"Best Americans" still the best
By Amazon Customer
Fall is here, making me sad for the end of summer, but happy because this is the season of the Best American series. Anthologies like this are always interesting because if you don’t like what you’re reading, a new article will come up in a few pages.
So a lot depends on how well the articles are chosen, and in this case the selection is brilliant. You would have to subscribe to a large number of magazines to get these stories, and each subscription would be more than the cost of this book.
As you read these articles you will wonder how much information on science and nature you have missed. I subscribe to the Scientific American and also read daily websites, yet all of these stories are new to me, and just about all of them are articles that I wish I read in the original.
I read this book as fast as I read fiction by familiar authors, because the stories here are important. Some of them relate to my experience, like remembering experiences under anesthetic, and others show hidden dangers of genealogy research combined with DNA testing.
The only story I had a little trouble with was that of a trapper who caught beavers and foxes. I felt it was a little “Nature red in tooth and claw,” but then I thought that it wasn’t good to hide myself away from this.
If you’re the slightest bit interested in science and nature writing, you should get this book. You will be amazed at the range of subjects that prove interesting in ways you didn’t expect. And, as an anthology, you don’t have to devote an entire books worth of reading in one sitting.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Wide-Ranging and Consistently Well-Written
By frankp93
Good science doesn’t always make for good writing and - minus the supporting graphics and imagery that likely accompanied many of these essays in their original form – language is even more exposed. Yet the high caliber of writing – augmented by some wordsmith ‘ringers’ including Nicholas Carr - make this anthology an easy and thought-provoking pleasure to spend time with.
There’s a good mix of animal science and more ‘human-oriented’ topics, along with much that intersects including climate change.
A personal favorite (as someone who works in the field with an interest in learning science) is ‘The Great Forgetting’, that deals with the influence of software automation on human learning - in this case, auto-piloting systems that increasingly leave commercial pilots with less and less to do in the cockpit. While no doubt contributing to record flight safety statistics, they also raise the potential for entirely new classes of system failures and accidents.
Other essays I enjoyed (if also found somewhat disturbing) deal with the appearance of ‘hybrid’ animal species as a suspected result of climate change, animal ‘de-extinction’ efforts by means of cloning, and the revitalization of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique following years of civil war that destroyed it. There are some ‘Nova-style’ travelogues-in-text on Alaska’s wild white sheep and the march of fire ants through the American South. An extended exploration of beaver trapping was unexpectedly engrossing.
Besides the animal world, there’s a story on the politico-economics of urban coastal land management in the wake of storms such as Sandy, a genuinely uplifting piece on the continued existence of leprosy in this country, the dawn of the Anthropocene (look it up) and the influence of television on the behavior patterns of young rural Indian women as a form of population control.
And just when you’re convinced things can’t get any worse on our destined-to-be-uninhabited earth, ‘The Madness of the Planets’ by Corey S. Powell raises the specter of unstable planetary bodies in a gimpy solar system where earth could find itself driving headlong through the Mother of All Road Construction Projects with asteroids and debris taking some major scrapes and dents out of us.
My personal interests are along the lines of math-science/physics/chaos theory and, while there isn’t a whole lot here that’s right in my wheelhouse, there are plenty of fascinating pieces that should hold the attention of anyone with a scientific bent, casual or pro, generalist or specialist.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
More philosophy (and less science) than I expected
By F. Moyer
A nice mix of articles, though climate change was discussed in 4 of the 24 articles (and one of those four articles was too political as it named several politicians who do not believe in climate change). Also, I was a bit surprised that several articles addressed both the science and the ethics of applying that science. Anyway, here’s a summary of the articles
MIXED UP: Climate change drives species inter-breeding
THE GREAT FORGETTING: Human over-reliance on automation and computers
SOCIAL LIFE OF GENES: Genes and the impact of nature vs nurture on gene activation
WHAT TELESCOPES COULDN’T SEE: Seeing faraway stars, but not seeing the social injustices around you.
RACE TO SAVE THE ORANGES: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). The science and the hysteria.
LIFE-AND-DEATH SITUATION: A caregiver’s personal & ethical perspectives on Death-with-dignity.
23 AND YOU: The ethical dilemmas with personal genealogical research.
WHY THE BRAIN PREFERS PAPER: Differences in learning with paper vs electronic books
O-RINGS: The personal risks and rewards of (Antarctic and space) exploration.
WHEN ANIMALS MOURN. Examples of animal behavior indicative of mourning.
WHERE IT BEGINS: The Zen of knitting. (I did not read much of this article.)
MISSION TO MARS COULD BORE YOU TO DEATH: Human factor concerns with long space voyages.
THE LOST WORLD: How scientists first determined that extinction events have periodically occurred. Also, will climate change cause the next extinction event?
AWAKENING: Anesthesia and “anesthesia awareness” (awakening during surgery)
IMAGINING THE POST-ANTIBIOTICS FUTURE: Drug resistant bacteria and a future without antibiotics.
THE RETURN OF MEASLES: Vaccinations and infection rates.
ANTS GO MARCHING: Attempts to combat the spread of fire ants.
TV AS BIRTH CONTROL: Using soap operas to show the advantages of smaller families.
MADNESS OF THE PLANETS: The illusion of stable orbits; the reality of a chaotic solar system.
LEARNING HOW TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: Global warming and climate change.
UNDER WATER: Global warming and climate change. (Politics, too)
VIEWING ALASKA’S WILD WHITE SHEEP: Yep, it’s viewing Alaska’s wild white sheep.
THE SEPARATING SICKNESS: Leprosy
TRAPLINE: The experience of trapping and snaring animals such as beaver & fox.
REBIRTH OF GORONGOSA: Recovering a wildlife area after its ruin due to a civil war.
BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE: Using cloning & gene manipulation to create recently-extinct animals.
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