The Best American Science Writing 2010Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jerome Groopman, The Best American Science Writing 2010 collects in one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing—David Dobbs, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Larissa MacFarquhar among them—this eleventh edition features outstanding journalism from a wide variety of publications, providing a comprehensive overview of the year’s most compelling, relevant, and exciting developments in the world of science. Provocative and engaging, The Best American Science Writing 2010 reveals just how far science has brought us—and where it is headed next. |
Contents
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Benedict Carey Surgery for Mental Ills Offers | 45 |
Wegner How to Think Say | 59 |
Michael Specter A Life of Its Own | 80 |
David Dobbs The Orchid Children | 102 |
Steven Pinker My Genome My Self | 124 |
Pam Belluck Test Subjects Who Call | 147 |
Erik Stokstad The Famine Fighters Last Battle | 153 |
Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction? | 190 |
Kathleen McAuliffe Are We Still Evolving? | 218 |
Susan Milius A Most Private Evolution | 232 |
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum | 243 |
Amy Wallace An Epidemic of Fear | 252 |
Steven Weinberg The Missions of Astronomy | 272 |
Tony Freeth Decoding an Ancient Computer | 282 |
Sheri Fink The Deadly Choices at Memorial | 293 |
Julia Scott Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths | 161 |
Rivka Galchen Disaster Aversion | 167 |
Cornelia Dean So Much to Learn About | 330 |
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