The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected - and most popular - of its kind. Book jacket.

Freeman Dyson, editor, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and biology. He is the author of numerous books, including Weapons and Hope, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Visions of Space
The Believer from GQ	p. 3
One Giant Leap to Nowhere from The New York Times	p. 16
The Missions of Astronomy from The New York Review of Books	p. 23
Cosmic Vision from National Geographic	p. 32
Seeking New Earths from National Geographic	p. 40
Neurology Displacing Molecular Biology
Don't! from The New Yorker	p. 47
Out of the Past from Discover	p. 61
Brain Games from The New Yorker	p. 73
Natural Beauty
The Alpha Accipiter from Minnesota Conservation Volunteer	p. 99
Flight of the Kuaka from Living Bird	p. 106
Modern Darwins from National Geographic	p. 114
The Superior Civilization from The New York Review of Books	p. 122
Still Blue from National Geographic	p. 133
The Lazarus Effect from Discover	p. 144
Darwin's First Clues from National Geographic	p. 149
The Environment: Gloom and Doom
All You Can Eat from Orion	p. 161
A Formula for Disaster from Wired	p. 172
Not So Silent Spring from Conservation Magazine	p. 182
The Catastrophist from The New Yorker	p. 188
The Sixth Extinction? from The New Yorker	p. 202
The Environment: Small Blessings
Scraping Bottom from National Geographic	p. 229
A Life of Its Own from The New Yorker	p. 239
Purpose-Driven Life from The American Scholar	p. 259
The Monkey and the Fish from The New Yorker	p. 272
The Environment: Big Blessings
Graze Anatomy from OnEarth	p. 301
Hearth Surgery from The New Yorker	p. 311
Green Giant from The New Yorker	p. 334
India, Enlightened from OnEarth	p. 352
Contributors' Notes	p. 377
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2009	p. 383
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