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    <body><![CDATA[A analogy with many strong ideas, yet quite boring for &quot;the best American science writing&quot;. But science isn't that interesting anyways. Some of the ideas are quite appealing to me such as what life would be like if humans did not exist, or what makes people gay, etc. Many of the ideas are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16225707">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this for Christmas from my brother Jack and loved it.  Amazing stories from all different fields of science.  Liked it so much I told my brother that I expect to get the next book in this series every Christmas.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was the best collection of science writing in the series.  What a great year for the sciences!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well 2007 is nearly over so I thought I should get started on the best of 2006.  So far the articles and essays are terrific.  I started with one about why belief in God is so prevalent; there was a very convincing evolutionary rationale so it made my day. The essay, &quot;Nature's Bioterrorist&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9597929">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a great read. a collection of well-written science articles from various newspapers, such as the new yorker, washington post, etc. touches on subjects such as: the effect of measles vaccinations on autism, what makes a person homosexual, the so-called obesity ¨epidemic¨, global warming, among othe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/774879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so rarely delve into non-fiction, let alone science writing, but this was a real treat. From a scathing critique of racist archaeology to a serious take on yawning to rancorous academic squabbling over the mass extinction of trilobytes, every article in here is totally compelling and funny. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book to see if I wanted to use it in my Technical Writing course in the Fall and I'm impressed by the variation and the political topics covered from homosexuality to time travel to obesity. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really fascinating and easy to read snippets at different times. The intro by Atul Gawande defines the best science writing as just really cool things to read about... definitely the case with this book!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It works, lively enough to keep the non-fiction pages turning though I would recommend <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.scienceblogs.com">www.scienceblogs.com</a> for anyway wanting to expand their general scientific radar. ]]></body>
    
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