The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 by Jerome Groopman

Nov 13, 2008

David rated it

Shelves: read-in-2008, anthologies-and-collections

This anthology, edited by Jerome Groopman, is exactly what one would hope for - a wide-ranging collection of well-written, fascinating articles which will expand the reader's horizons and are fun to read. It puts the competing anthology "Best American Science Writing 2008", edited (perfunctorily) by Sylvia Nasar, to shame. Where Nasar didn't bother to look beyond "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" for her material, Groopman's anthology benefits from his havin...moreThis anthology, edited by Jerome Groopman, is exactly what one would hope for - a wide-ranging collection of well-written, fascinating articles which will expand the reader's horizons and are fun to read. It puts the competing anthology "Best American Science Writing 2008", edited (perfunctorily) by Sylvia Nasar, to shame. Where Nasar didn't bother to look beyond "The New York Times" and "The New Yorker" for her material, Groopman's anthology benefits from his having cast a much broader net, as well as from the depth of his intellectual curiosity. In his introduction, he outlines his criteria for inclusion:

"the articles ... have novel and surprising arguments, protagonists who articulate their themes in clear, cogent voices, and vivid cinema. They are not verbose or tangential. They are filled with simple declarative sentences. ... I suspect none of the articles was easy to write. Each shows a depth of thought and reporting that takes time and considerable effort."

These target criteria show that we are in good hands - the only remaining question is whether they are actually achieved for the pieces included in the anthology. The answer is a resounding yes - with very few exceptions (only Freeman Dyson's piece on biotechnology and Michael Specter's article on retroviruses seemed fuzzy to me) the writing is crisp and clear, and the subject material is interesting and thought-provoking. That is, in my estimation, Dr Groopman's batting average is 22 excellent pieces of 24 (and your view on the Dyson and Specter pieces may differ). Which far exceeds the norm for this kind of anthology.

Here is a partial list of the articles included:
Jon Cohen: "Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal"
John Colapinto: "The Interpreter" (the linguistic anomaly represented by the Piraha language)
Robin Marantz Henig: "Our silver-coated future" (safety assessment of nanotechnology)
Michael Finkel: "Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer"
Olivia Judson: "The Selfless Gene"
Todd Pitock: "Science and Islam in Conflict"
Ron Rosenbaum: "How to Trick an Online Scammer into Carving a Computer out of Wood"
Ian Parker: "Swingers" (mating habits of bonobos)
Jeffrey Toobin: "The CSI effect" (forensics: TV versus reality)

Other articles cover topics as diverse as dark matter, "spooky action at a distance", khipu knots of the Incas, the coming robot army, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko by polonium-210, the Hendra virus, difficulties in the interpretation of epidemiological studies, wind energy, and the requisite Oliver Sacks case study (musicophilia).(less)

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Jan 14, 2009

emmy hall rated it

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I'm a big big fan of the best american science and nature writing compilations. I look forward to them each year. This year's book was simply disappointing. The most interesting essay is "The Interpreter" which was previously published in the New Yorker, and which I read in that magazine earlier this year. That article is about an amazonian tribe called the pirahan, who's number system and grammar are extremely unique. "The Interpreter" is fascinating: multi-dimensional,...more

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Jan 17, 2010

Tony rated it

Shelves: science

Groopman, Jerome, M.D. (ed.) THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING. (2008). ****. A book like this is like someone coming into your house with a pile of magazines and newspapers all marked up with yellow post-it notes indicating which articles you should read – but much neater. It’s also not a book you sit down and read through on one sitting. I also have to admit that I only got a few pages into a couple of the articles before (yawn) I moved on to the next. In spite of that, most ...moreGroopman, Jerome, M.D. (ed.) THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING. (2008). ****. A book like this is like someone coming into your house with a pile of magazines and newspapers all marked up with yellow post-it notes indicating which articles you should read – but much neater. It’s also not a book you sit down and read through on one sitting. I also have to admit that I only got a few pages into a couple of the articles before (yawn) I moved on to the next. In spite of that, most of these twenty-four articles or reviews will appeal to your thirst for recent discoveries or understandings in various fields of science and nature. The first article out of the box was, “Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal,” written by Jon Cohen and extracted from “Outside” magazine. It discusses hybrid animals produced by breeding between different species. Some examples are ligers (lion father and a tiger mother), zorses, wholphins, tigons, and beefaloes. The list goes on. Although some are encouraged to breed in captivity, there is ample evidence that such hybrids occur in nature. John Colapinto’s article from “The New Yorker” entitled, “The Interpreter,” tells the story of the discovery of a tribe of hunter-gatherers in the tropical forests of Brazil called the Piraha. These peoples have a speech pattern that is unintelligible to outsiders. It consists of a series of melodic chattering – like a profusion of exotic songbirds. The language is based on just eight consonants and three vowels. However it possesses such a complex array of tones, stresses, and syllable lengths that its speakers can dispense with their vowels and consonants altogether and sing, jum, or whistle conversations. From “Scientific American,” we can read about “The Universe’s Invisible Hand.” It tells about the discovery, made only in 1998, that three-quarters of the contents of the universe is filled with what is known as ‘dark’ energy. Not only does dark energy appear to make up the bulk of the universe, but its existence, if it stands the test of time, will probably require the development of new theories of physics. I could continue to extract forever from this collection, but hopefully you get the point. Other sciences covered include nuclear physics, archaelogy, cosmology, biology, molecular biology, physics, etc. You’ve got to be able to find at least two or three of these included pieces to rivet your attention. Recommended.(less)

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May 05, 2009

Billie Pritchett rated it

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 was a marvelous collection of this previous year's more fascinating popular science articles. Among the best articles in the collection are Jon Cohen's "Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal," an article about how new exposure to hybrids is making biologists and zoologists rethink the traditional taxonomy of species; John Colapinto's "The Interpreter," where one field linguist has encountered a Brazilian people called the...more

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Mar 03, 2009

Corinne rated it

Shelves: essays

There are some really great articles in this anthology, but the main lesson I took away from this collection is that the New Yorker is an amazing magazine. I'd read many of these articles when they were printed in the New Yorker last year. Seeing them again, against other publication's offerings, reminded me why I love the magazine so much. The articles aren't just well researched, they are excellently framed. And while other publications put out five pages of story, the New Yorker consistently ...more

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Feb 19, 2009

Lindsay rated it

I'd already read and enjoyed some of the articles in this book (the ones previously published in the New Yorker-- especially Colapinto's essay). Overall I find an anthology like this an essential contribution to History of Science oeuvre-- it's interesting to have a record of the year's most salient themes in popular science writing (which also indicates social concerns of the time, of course). I thought that some of the articles fell short of a "best" rating and were merely somewha...more

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Dec 20, 2008

Don rated it

Shelves: recent-favorites, science-and-nature

I've read this series for a long time and it's one of the few books I dog-ear and return to over and over. My copy of this book is gone, so I'll get another one and start again from scratch.

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Jul 16, 2009

Dan rated it

I love this series of books. The science and nature books might be my favorite, but I also enjoy the short stories, essays, and travel writing.

Just a quick review on this one.

It starts with some excellent pieces, gets a bit boring near the middle, but then turns into a fireball of awesomeness near the end. This is the kind of book that helps you open up to areas of science & nature you've never thought about before. Plus, some of the essays are based on cutting-edge st...more

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Jul 22, 2009

Andres rated it

Shelves: anthologies

24 articles from 14 publications, with top contributor being The New Yorker with 5 stories.

I enjoy each edition, so I'll just point at which articles were able to stay fresh in my mind after having read them over a year ago.

Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animals by Jon Cohen
Hybrid animals are far more common than we realize.

Untangling the Mystery of the Inca by Gareth Cook
Explores the quest to untangle the meaning behind Incan khipus.

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Apr 09, 2009

Curtis rated it

Recommends it for: Anyone interested in modern scientific topics

Shelves: science, essays, nonfiction

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I picked this book up as part of a bargain deal at B&N on a bit of a whim. It's been awhile since I've sat down and read a book of essays, and I wanted to see what was up with the modern world of science.

Turns out, I'd already heard about a

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I picked this book up as part of a bargain deal at B&N on a bit of a whim. It's been awhile since I've sat down and read a book of essays, and I wanted to see what was up with the modern world of science.

Turns out, I'd already heard about a number of topics mentioned in this book, which isn't that surprising when you consider that even though the essays themselves were written in 2007, many of the events and discoveries they describe occurred earlier, sometimes many years so.

There were a few broad, recurring scientific themes among the essays, a few of which one might expect and others that might be less predictable. Of course, an essay sometimes contained more than one theme. Recurring themes include:

- Biology/Genetics: "Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal," "Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals," "Our Biotech Future," "Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer," "The Selfless Gene," "Swingers," "Deadly Contact," "Darwin's Surprise"

- Anthropology/Primatology: "The Interpreter," "Untangling the Mystery of the Inca," "The Selfless Gene," "Swingers," "Science and Islam in Conflict," "First Churches of the Jesus Cult"

- Epidemiology: "Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer," "Children Are Diamonds," "Deadly Contact," "Darwin's Surprise," "Numbers Can Lie"

- Environmentalism: "Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals," "Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer," "Children Are Diamonds," "A Mighty Wind"

- Physics/Cosmology: "The Universe's Invisible Hand," "A Curious Attraction"

- Technology: "Our Biotech Future," "The Coming Robot Army," "The First Assassination of the Twenty-First Century," "Our Silver-Coated Future," "The Autumn of the Multitaskers," "How to Trick an Online Scammer into Carving a Computer out of Wood," "The CSI Effect," "Numbers Can Lie," "A Mighty Wind"

I don't have the space (or will...) to comment on each essay individually, so I will provide some brief thoughts only about the three I liked best and the three I liked least.

My Favorites:

"The Interpreter": I found this essay very engaging. It was well written, and the topic – a linguistic study of the language used by the Pirahã (pronounced pa-DEE-han for some inscrutable reason), an ancient tribe embedded deep in the Amazon forest of Brazil – was fascinating to me. Also, the fact that the protagonist of the story, Dan Everett, is a no-holds-barred Irish linguist who bucks academic tradition and lunges for the jugular of the generally accepted God of Linguisticism, Noam Chomsky, simply makes for a good story. I like too that the observations made are open: Everett, and the author, do not attempt to conclude how studying the Pirahã language ultimately will change our understanding of how language developed (and will continue to develop). Furthermore, Everett's passion and excitement are transparent in the narrative, and one almost feels ready to hop on a plane and join him in the remote jungle where he's built his life and livelihood.

"First Churches of the Jesus Cult": Early Christian church history has always fascinated me (though perhaps not quite as much as my friend Dave), and so some of my affinity for this article is perhaps preordained by the title. Once you get past the emotive framework bewailing the current state of Israel in conflict, this essay sheds an interesting light on the claims of the amount and severity of persecution experienced by early Christians. Basically, some evidence shows that Christian churches may have openly existed in locations that would seem to contradict such persecution claims, such as near Roman sentry stations. While there is some dispute about the date of these digs (which is significant because persecutions would necessarily be much less after Constantine declared Christianity the official state religion in the fourth century), it surfaces some interesting questions.

"The Autumn of the Multitaskers": At first blush, this might appear to be a lament of a luddite, or at least someone who wishes he had the gall to be a luddite. But the author makes some interesting points about the increasingly frenetic pace of technology and the waxing obsession with "multitasking" – which is one of those strange misnomers that everybody knows is inaccurate, but we all still use anyway. One of the more interesting sections of the essay is where the author considers the various metaphors that people have used to describe the human brain throughout the centuries, and hinges on the stunningly introspective question: "Would it be possible someday – through drugs, maybe, or esoteric Buddhism, or some profound, postapocalyptic languor – to stop coming up with ideas of what we are and then laboring to live up to them?"

My least favorites

"Children Are Diamonds": My dislike of this essay begins with it's narrative structure and ends with it's content. It apparently is intended to read like a doctor's journal, but staccato works best in beat poetry and drum solos and should stay out of the scientific essay. And, yeah, I get it already: There are sick kids in Africa and I should feel bad about it.

"A Bolt from the Blue": This essay begins with the story of a man who was struck by lightning and suddenly develops an affinity compulsion, and aptitude for playing piano. It then takes a look at similar cases and draws some parallels for people who have exhibited similar artistic tendencies well into adulthood. So far, so good. But then he starts talking like a psychologist, using words that normal people don't use, like "musicophilia." Where the epoxy met the catalyst for me was when the author said that there must be a neurological explanation, but he had no idea what it could possibly be. Not only did the article become more mundane and pedantic as it went on, it also became more ironical.

"A Mighty Wind": I quote the last paragraph: "I rant to myself that this is exactly why governments should step in and support responsible energy development: so that wayward, flawed sybarites such as myself don't have to make endless, irksome daily decisions when all we really want is a warm bed and a bowl of muesli. With a side of bacon. And a mug of hot imported coffee. Ja." I don't know if the author is being facetious or not (which equates to a big FAIL in my book), but it seems unlikely that he is given the treehugger's wet dream he describes as his vacation to Samsø, the Danish island that touts itself as "carbon negative." The author praises the use of government mandate and subsidy to achieve this monolithic effort and bitches to a bunch of Irish civil engineers he meets in his travels about why America (and the rest of the world) doesn't do the same. Of course he ignores some of the obvious problems with his utopia, such as the fact that government subsidies do not make anything "competitive" and they never can – if someting is "competitive" then it wouldn't need government subsidy in the first place. I have more to rant about on this one, but I'll leave it at what I've said already for now.

The other essays

Here's a broad general classification for the rest of the essays in the book, according to how much I liked them. Again, finding a story enjoyable or not doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the content.

Enjoyable:

"Zonkeys Are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal"
"The Universe's Invisible Hand"
"Untangling the MYstery of the Inca"
"The First Assassination of the Twenty-First Century"
"Our Silver-Coated Future"
"A Curious Attraction"
"Swingers"
"Science and Islam in Conflict"
"Deadly Contact"
"How to Trick an Online Scammer into Carving a Computer out of Wood"
"Darwin's Surprise"
"The CSI Effect"
"Numbers Can Lie"

Less enjoyable:

"Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals"
"Our Biotech Future"
"The Coming Robot Army"
"Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer"
"The Selfless Gene"

As the numbers show, I liked more of the stories than I disliked. And there were typically some small tidbits I was able to glean from the ones I didn't like. Overall, a decent read.

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Jan 02, 2009

D.W. rated it

Houghton Mifflin's series has always leaned heavily toward the pop in popular science and nature, favoring topical, crowd-pleasing subjects like nanotechnology, dark matter, chimps and robots, robots and chimps, stem cell research and—that perennial favorite—mental abnormalities from the case files of Oliver Sacks. Just about all of these show up in the 2008 edition, yet for the first time the bulk of these essays aren't even nominally scientific (unless you feel, as the editors seem to, that ev...moreHoughton Mifflin's series has always leaned heavily toward the pop in popular science and nature, favoring topical, crowd-pleasing subjects like nanotechnology, dark matter, chimps and robots, robots and chimps, stem cell research and—that perennial favorite—mental abnormalities from the case files of Oliver Sacks. Just about all of these show up in the 2008 edition, yet for the first time the bulk of these essays aren't even nominally scientific (unless you feel, as the editors seem to, that everything is science, in which case the word itself is meaningless). One look at the table of contents shows that only a handful of this year's essays came from sources that might be considered 'sciencey,' while a full third are from The Atlantic and The New Yorker—where Gerome Groopman, Guest Editor, works. As a reader of the series for the past eight years (and someone who found even The Elegant Universe impenetrably technical) I've been more than happy to go along with their always readable, never-too-taxing selections. And this year's pieces, putting aside the Science and Nature rubric, are almost all excellent, they just miss the point for someone like me who actually reads this series, year after year, to keep up with scientific developments, or at least feel like I am. Instead I feel condescended to, being told that an essay about online "scam-baiters" hoodwinking Nigerians somehow belongs here.

That said, there are many highlights, among them two fantastic essays on language, one about an Amazonian tribe that seems to defy the central tenet of Chomskyan linguistics, and another about the deciphering of a long-lost Incan language recorded using knots. The award for the creepiest essay must go to Freeman Dyson, for his piece Our Biotech Future, in which he envisions a world of "user-friendly," "do-it-yourself" genetic engineering kits, with which we can design our own pets and such. "Few of the new creations will be masterpieces," he laments, but, hey, they're just living things, right? The essay, line for line, is laugh-out-loud horrifying, with Dyson, the quintessential cavalier scientist, solving problems like rural poverty with a wave of his hand—through the grand, abstract use of genetically modified crops—or disposing of our unwanted cars by designing termites to eat them. Of nature's failure to produce plants with black leaves, which he believes would be more efficient, he concludes, "Perhaps we will not understand why nature did not travel this route until we have traveled it ourselves." Our grim new future awaits.

What really makes these collections worth reading are the pieces I can always count on to profoundly change my view of the world. There was only one this year, Darwin's Surprise, by Michael Specter, on how retroviruses, over the course of human history, have written themselves into our DNA and shaped our development. It's the kind of essay I hope to see a lot more of in future editions, one that's truly worthy of the title Best American Science and Nature.(less)

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Jan 13, 2009

Melanie rated it

Book of 24 well-written essays previously published in assorted magazines on a variety of science topics. I was especially intrigued by articles about why multitasking rarely works, dark energy in the universe, why malaria is such a scourge on our planet (did you know it is thought that HALF of all people who have EVER LIVED have died of malaria?), and why virus fragments we all carry in our DNA may be the reason human beings don't lay eggs. A great read.

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Aug 06, 2009

Tuck rated it

these vary in quality (this series rather) and its amazing how many science artifices the new yorker has! i learned about nanotech, linguistics, inca writing, lots of progress on evolution front, virus research, "the first churches of the jesus cult", malaria, and a cool ass island in Denmark (samso [sic:]) that is is more than negative 150% carbon neutral.

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Jul 30, 2011

Alan Frager rated it

Some great stories as usual. Good ones about studies of Amazon tribal languages, scary ones about decoding and storing viruses, good debate about epidemiology versus clinical studies, informative ones about evolution, and interesting ones about archeology. Current science by good science writers is always interesting.

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Apr 23, 2009

Tiffany rated it

Good stuff, short articles about science and nature. For some reason, the article by Gareth Cook about the Incan knot system really grabbed me. Found the article by Todd Pitock, "Science and Islam in conflict" a massive understatement (bulletin from the front lines!). And Edward Hoagland's "Children are Diamonds" was wrenching and a surprisingly emotional departure from the other articles in this collection.

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Mar 10, 2009

Cooper rated it

Another fantastic collection this year. There is definitely a medical theme that runs throughout the book and is a result of Groopman's influence. There seems to be less emphasis Nature in this edition, but still a great read.

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Apr 23, 2009

Michelle added it

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I love these compilations--it seems I never have enough time to read all of the magazines I would like and professional journals are completely beyond my reading scope so these are a godsend. Obviously it's just a small slice of what's out there and subject to the preferences of the editor but it's a good way to get a sense of what's going on these days and it's easy to follow up on the topics you're most interested in. This book had articles ranging from new theories about whether the Mayans ...more

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Apr 08, 2010

Maxx is currently reading it

Have learned lots, currently my writing\science book for home, covers many subjects and not just one long boring one.

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Jan 17, 2010

Veronica rated it

I only read this book because it was required for class. Some of the essays in it were very interesting.

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Aug 01, 2011

Jon rated it

this is an excellent compilation of entertaining and thought provoking words

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Dec 13, 2009

Jessi is currently reading it

Really fascinating, especially for those without a science background.

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Oct 24, 2009

Paul rated it

Very nice selection of short articles from magazines.

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Nov 22, 2008

Megan added it

Just finished. A great collection.

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Feb 16, 2009

Kevin Albrecht rated it

Shelves: science

Interesting and varied collection. Reading these made me realize, however, that the place for collections like this is disappearing. Much of the content in here is the length of a long blog entry, which is the format I actually read most of my science from. The greatest thing about reading science on the internet versus dead tree form is that on the internet, it is generally from the originating scientist himself, whereas on paper, it is usually a journalist who inevitably seems to get some o...more

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Sep 07, 2009

Steven rated it

Good book on some of the latest research and findings going on. This is a good, varied selection of articles, covering from physics to evolution, and from religion to politics! If you enjoy knowing, you will enjoy this book!

*Most interesting article, Darwin's Suprise: Talks about some proof that we are in fact descendant from other primates, and even more stunning, viruses have been a essential part of our evolution throughout history, being able to combine with our DNA to produce...more

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Jan 05, 2010

Dan rated it

As with any anthology, the pieces assembled here are hit and miss. By and large, though, the articles are fascinating, and the quality of the writing lives well up to the "Best American" series standard. The articles collected here cover a broad array of topics ranging from biology to technology to linguistics, and so on, so whatever your interests, there's sure to be something here to pique your curiosity. And, an article about (sigh) Pleistocene rewilding.

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Apr 13, 2009

Dan rated it

If you vote, if you consume products or food, if you are at all interested in the real world around you, or if you have two neurons to knock together (which you do, because you're reading this sentence), read this collection. I'd say on average 18 of the 20 featured articles blow me away each year, and this 2008 collection is no exception. A MUST, and good for busy people, since it's divided into short, digestible pieces.

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Feb 23, 2010

Jenni rated it

enjoyed this volume, but the selections were less dynamic, less inspired. if you're keen on viruses, then this is the volume for you. the story on malaria was riveting and heartbreaking.

looking forward to Elizabeth Kolbert's 2009's collection: heavy on evolution and environment.

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Mar 17, 2009

Nichole rated it

When I bought this I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. But I must say I cannot put it down. I have only skipped one article so far, and it was on physics. The biology articles are really interesting. I would recommend this to anyone. I'm about half way through right now.

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Oct 07, 2009

Kelsey rated it

The chapters are a perfect length, you can get through them in 15-20 minutes or less and each one has been so interesting so far - I'm talking my fiance's head off about what I'm learning about the Inca civilization, animal hybridization, linguistics and megafauna conservation!

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