The best American science and nature writing 2013

ISBN: 9780544003439 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxi, 339 pages ; 21 cm. print
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2012.

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General Note:	"A Mariner original."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
Formatted Contents Note:	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 -- Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.