The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009

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ISBN: 9780547002590 | 0547002599
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/8/2009

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Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a delight for any fan of popular science" (Publishers Weekly).

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Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiv
Faustian Economics: from Harper's Magazine	p. 1
The Ethics of Climate Change: from Scientific American	p. 11
Is Google Making Us Stupid?: from The Atlantic Monthly	p. 19
High-Tech Trash: from National Geographic	p. 30
Intel Inside: from Wired	p. 39
Blown Apart: from California	p. 49
Did Life Begin in Ice?: from Discover	p. 56
The Day Before Genesis: from Discover	p. 66
The Itch: from The New Yorker	p. 76
The Mushroom Cloud's Silver Lining: from Science	p. 94
Last of the Neanderthals: from National Geographic	p. 103
Virtual Iraq: from The New Yorker	p. 116
Chain Reaction: from Discover	p. 129
Wasteland: from Harper's Magazine	p. 135
Minds of Their Own: from National Geographic	p. 156
Back to the Future: from High Country News	p. 169
To Take Wildness in Hand: from Orion	p. 181
How We Evolve: from Seed	p. 192
Pop Psychology: from The Atlantic Monthly	p. 203
Contagious Cancer: from Harper's Magazine	p. 209
The Reality Tests: from Seed	p. 229
Darwin and the Meaning of Flowers: from The New York Review of Books	p. 241
Animalcules and Other Little Subjects: from Isotope	p. 256
Big Foot: from The New Yorker	p. 273
Red Is the New Green: from Outside	p. 293
Stayin' Alive: from Wired	p. 306
Contributors' Notes	p. 319
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2008	p. 325
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