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Overview
Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, and with contributions from Atul Gawande, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Oliver Sacks, among others, The Best American Science Writing 2007 is a compelling anthology of our most advanced, and most relevant, scientific inquiries.
Synopsis
Provocative and engaging, this collection brings together the premiere science writing of the year. Featuring the imprimatur of bestselling author and New York Times reporter Gina Kolata, one of the nation's foremost voices in science and medicine, and with contributions from Atul Gawande, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Oliver Sacks, among others, The Best American Science Writing 2007 is a compelling anthology of our most advanced, and most relevant, scientific inquiries.
Publishers Weekly
Edited by New York Timesscience writer Kolata, this volume celebrates writing that captures the excitement of scientific discovery and also its human consequences. Tyler Cabot's "The Theory of Everything" spotlights theoretical physicists awaiting "the greatest, most anticipated, most expensive experiment in the history of mankind." By contrast, "Manifold Destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber tells of Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, who quietly announced a solution to one of the field's most elusive problems: Fermat's Last Theorem. Atul Gawande's "The Score" looks at the all-too-often painful history of obstetrics, and "Truth or Consequences" by Jennifer Couzin examines the bitter fallout for innocent graduate students and postdocs when their adviser is accused of falsifying data. Oliver Sacks's "Stereo Sue" explores the marvel of binocular vision, and Barry Yeoman's "Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery" profiles unconventional paleontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer, discoverer of tissue remnants in dinosaur bones. These articles, culled mainly from general interest publications like the New Yorkerbut also from science magazines like Discover, showcase articles that show, in Kolata's words, how "[a]dvances in science have changed who we are as human beings and... are changing what we will become," and readers will indeed find them as exciting as they are compelling. (Sept. 18)
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Like its predecessors, the ninth installment of this science anthology spotlights the very best journalistic science writing of the year. The range of articles is wide; the prose, accessible; the subject matter, riveting. The roster of contributors for the 2007 number include Oliver Sacks, Atul Gawande, Sylvia Nasar, David Gruber, Barry Yeoman, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jonathan Keats, and Jennifer Cousin. Everything from obstetrics to the expansion of the universe.Boston Globe
"These articles are of varying depth, tone, length, and quality, but all of them are interesting. "Boston Globe
“These articles are of varying depth, tone, length, and quality, but all of them are interesting. ”Publishers Weekly
Edited by New York Timesscience writer Kolata, this volume celebrates writing that captures the excitement of scientific discovery and also its human consequences. Tyler Cabot's "The Theory of Everything" spotlights theoretical physicists awaiting "the greatest, most anticipated, most expensive experiment in the history of mankind." By contrast, "Manifold Destiny" by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber tells of Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, who quietly announced a solution to one of the field's most elusive problems: Fermat's Last Theorem. Atul Gawande's "The Score" looks at the all-too-often painful history of obstetrics, and "Truth or Consequences" by Jennifer Couzin examines the bitter fallout for innocent graduate students and postdocs when their adviser is accused of falsifying data. Oliver Sacks's "Stereo Sue" explores the marvel of binocular vision, and Barry Yeoman's "Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery" profiles unconventional paleontologist Mary Higby Schweitzer, discoverer of tissue remnants in dinosaur bones. These articles, culled mainly from general interest publications like the New Yorkerbut also from science magazines like Discover, showcase articles that show, in Kolata's words, how "[a]dvances in science have changed who we are as human beings and... are changing what we will become," and readers will indeed find them as exciting as they are compelling. (Sept. 18)
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