Online Index to The Best American Science and Nature
Writing Series As I'm reading through
Houghton-Mifflin's wonderful series The
Best American Science and Nature Writing
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2000
David Berlinski .
"Iterations of Immortality" ($),
from Harper's Magazine Mark Cherrington .
"To Save a Watering Hole" ,
from Discover Edwin Dobb .
"New Life in a Death Trap" ,
from Discover Gregg Easterbrook .
"Abortion and Brain Waves" (*),
from The New Republic Malcolm Gladwell .
"Baby Steps" ($), (alternate) ,
from The New Yorker Jane Goodall .
"In the Forests of Gombe",
from Orion Jerome Groopman .
"The Doubting Disease" ($), (alternate) ,
from The New Yorker Stephen S. Hall .
"The Recycled Generation" , (alternate) ,
from The New York Times Magazine Bernd Heinrich .
"Endurance Predator" ,
from Outside Edward Hoagland .
"Harpy Eagles",
from Orion Bill Joy .
"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" ,
from Wired Ted Kerasote .
"A Killing at Dawn" ,
from Audubon Barbara Kingsolver and
Steven Hopp .
"Seeing Scarlet" (*),
from Audubon Verlyn Klinkenborg .
"The Best Clock in the World" ,
from Discover Jon R. Luoma .
"The Wild World's Scotland Yard" ($),
from Audubon Cynthia Mills .
"Breeding Discontent",
from The Sciences Oliver Morton .
"Ice Station Vostok" ,
from Wired Val Plumwood .
"Being Prey" ,
from Utne Reader Sandra Postel .
"Troubled Waters" (PDF)(*),
from The Sciences Richard Preston .
"The Genome Warrior" ($), (alternate) ,
from The New Yorker David Quammen .
"Megatransect" , (see also) , (see also)
from National Geographic Donovan Webster .
"Inside the Volcano" ,
from National Geographic Roy Baumeister .
"Violent Pride" ($), (alternate ),
from Scientific American Burkhard Bilger .
"Braised Shank of Free-Range Possum?" ,
from Outside K.C. Cole .
"Mind Over Matter",
from The Los Angeles Times Richard Conniff and
Harry Marshall .
"In the Realm of Virtual Reality" ($),
from Smithsonian Frederick C. Crews .
"Saving Us from Darwin" ,
from The New York Review of Books Barbara Ehrenreich .
"Welcome to Cancerland" ($), (alternate ),
from Harper's Magazine H. Bruce Franklin .
"The Most Important Fish in the Sea" ,
from Discover Malcolm Gladwell .
"Examined Life" ,
from The New Yorker Gary Greenberg .
"As Good as Dead" ,
from The New Yorker Gordon Grice .
"Is That a Mountain Lion in Your Backyard?" ,
from Discover Blaine Harden .
"The Dirt in the New Machine" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Robert M. Hazen .
"Life's Rocky Start" ($),
from Scientific American Sarah Blaffer Hrdy .
"Mothers and Others" ,
from Natural History Garret Keizer .
"Sound and Fury" ($),
from Harper's Magazine Verlyn Klinkenborg .
"The Pursuit of Innocence in the Golden State" ,
from The New York Times Robert Kunzig .
"Ripe for Controversy" (aka "The Biology of... Cheese"),
from Discover Anne Matthews .
"Wall Street Losses, Wall Street Gains" ,
from Orion Steve Mirsky .
"Dumb, Dumb, Duh Dumb" , (alternate ),
from Scientific American Judith Newman .
"'I Have Seen Cancers Disappear'" ,
from Discover Dennis Overbye .
"How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science" ,
from The New York Times Chet Raymo .
"A Little Reminder of Reality's Scale",
from The Boston Globe Eric Schlosser .
"Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good" (*),
from The Atlantic Monthly Daniel Smith .
"Shock and Disbelief" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Peter Stark .
"The Sting of the Assassin" ,
from Outside Clive Thompson .
"The Know-It-All Machine" ,
from Lingua Franca Joy Williams .
"One Acre" ($),
from Harper's Magazine Karen Wright .
"Very Dark Energy" ,
from Discover Natalie Angier .
"Weighing the Grandma Factor" ,
from The New York Times Tim Appenzeller .
"At Home in the Heavens" ($),
from U.S. News & World Report Alan Burdick .
"Four Ears to the Ground" (*),
from Natural History Clark R. Chapman and
Alan W. Harris .
"A Skeptical Look at September 11th" ,
from Skeptical Inquirer David Ewing Duncan .
"DNA as Destiny" ,
from Wired Timothy Ferris .
"Astronomy's New Stars" ,
from Smithsonian Ian Frazier .
"Terminal Ice" ,
from Outside James Gorman .
"Finding a Wild, Fearsome World Beneath Every Fallen Leaf" ,
from The New York Times Charles Hirshberg .
"My Mother, the Scientist" , (alternate ),
from Popular Science Brenden I. Koerner .
"Embryo Police" ,
from Wired Elizabeth Kolbert .
"Ice Memory" ,
from The New Yorker Andrew Lawler .
"Treasure Under Saddam's Feet" ,
from Discover Daniel Lazare .
"False Testament" ($), (alternate ),
from Harper's Magazine Elizabeth F. Loftus .
"Memory Faults and Fixes" (PDF),
from Issues in Science and Technology Charles C. Mann .
"Homeland Insecurity" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Bill McKibben .
"It's Easy Being Green" ($),
from Mother Jones Steven Olson .
"The Royal We" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Dennis Overbye .
"A New View of Our Universe" ,
from The New York Times Steven Pinker .
"The Blank Slate" ($), (alternate .doc ),
from Discover Oliver Sacks .
"Anybody Out There?" , part II ,
from Natural History Steve Silberman .
"The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks" ,
from Wired Adam Summers .
"Fat Heads Sink Ships" ,
from Natural History Gary Taubes .
"What If It's All Been A Big Fat Lie?" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Bruce Watson .
"Sounding the Alarm" (*),
from Smithsonian William Speed Weed .
"The Very Best Telescope" ,
from Discover Scott Weidensaul .
"Raising the Dead" ,
from Audubon Steven Weinberg .
"The Truth About Missile Defense" ($),
from The New York Review of Books Ted Williams .
"Maine's War on Coyotes" ,
from Audubon Edward O. Wilson .
"The Bottleneck" ($),
from Scientific American Scott Atran .
"Genesis of Suicide Terrorism" ($), (alternate html ), (alternate pdf ),
from Science Ronald Bailey .
"The Battle for Your Brain" ,
from Reason Phillip M. Boffey .
"Fearing the Worst Should Anyone Produce a Cloned Baby" ,
from The New York Times Austin Bunn .
"The Bittersweet Science" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Jennet Conant .
"The New Celebrity",
from Seed Daniel C. Dennett .
"The Mythical Threat of Genetic Determinism" , (alternate ),
from The Chronical of Higher Education Gregg Easterbrook .
"We're All Gonna Die!" ,
from Wired Garrett G. Fagan .
"Far-Out Television" ,
from Archaeology Jeffrey M. Friedman .
"A War on Obesity, Not the Obese" ($), (alternate abridged ),
from Science Atul Gawande .
"Desperate Measures" ($),
from The New Yorker Horace Freeland Judson .
"The Stuff of Genes" ,
from Smithsonian Geoffrey Nunberg .
"The Bloody Crossroads of Grammar and Politics" ,
from The New York Times Mike O'Connor .
"Ask the Bird Folks": [1] ,[2] ,[3] ,[4] ,[5] .
from The Cape Codder Peggy Orenstein .
"Where Have All the Lisas Gone?" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Virginia Postrel .
"The Design of Your Life" ,
from Men's Journal Jonathan Rauch .
"Caring for Your Introvert" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Chet Raymo .
"All the Old Sciences Have Starring Roles" ,
from The Boston Globe Ron Rosenbaum .
"Sex Week at Yale" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Steve Sailer .
"The Cousin Marriage Conundrum" ,
from The American Conservative Robert Sapolsky .
"Bugs in the Brain" ,
from Scientific American Eric Scigliano .
"Through the Eye of an Octopus" ,
from Discover Meredith Small .
"Captivated" ,
from Natural History Max Tegmark .
"Parallel Universes" ($), from Scientific American Nicholas Wade .
"In Click Languages, an Echo of the Tongues of the Ancients" ,
from The New York Times Nicholas Wade .
"A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World" ,
from The New York Times Natalie Angier .
"My God Problem" ,
from The American Scholar Connie Bruck .
"Hollywood Science" ,
from The New Yorker Frederick Crews .
"Out, Damned Blot!" ($), (alternate pdf ),
from The New York Review of Books Jared Diamond .
"Twilight at Easter" ($) (alternate ),
from The New York Review of Books Jenny Everett .
"My Little Brother on Drugs" ,
from Popular Science Timothy Ferris .
"Stumbling into Space" ($),
from The New York Review of Books Malcolm Gladwell .
"Getting Over It" (alternate ),
from The New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell .
"Personality Plus" ,
from The New Yorker Jerome Groopman .
"The Grief Industry" (alternate ),
from The New Yorker John Horgan .
"Keeping the Faith in My Doubt" (alternate ),
from The New York Times Jennifer Kahn .
"The Homeless Hacker v. The New York Times " ,
from Wired Robert Kunzig .
"20,000 Microbes Under The Sea" ,
from Discover William Langewiesche .
"A Two-Planet Species?" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Bill McKibben .
"Crossing the Red Line" ,
from The New York Review of Books James McManus .
"Please Stand By While the Age of Miracles Is Briefly Suspended" ,
from Esquire Sherwin B. Nuland .
"Getting in Nature's Way" ,
from The New York Review of Books Sherwin B. Nuland .
The Man or the Moment?" ($),
from The American Scholar Jeffrey M. O'Brien .
"To Hell and Back" ,
from Wired Ian Parker .
"The X Prize" ($),
from The New Yorker Oliver Sacks .
"In the River of Consciousness" (*),
from The New York Review of Books Michael Specter .
"Miracle in a Bottle" ,
from The New Yorker Cliff Stoll .
"The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator" ($),
from Scientific American Ellen Ullman .
"Dining with Robots",
from The American Scholar William Speed Weed .
"106 Science Claims and a Truckful of Baloney" ,
from Popular Science Carl Zimmer .
"Whose Life Would You Save?" ,
from Discover Natalie Angier .
"Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore" ,
from The New York Times Drake Bennett .
"Dr. Ecstasy" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Larry Cahill .
"His Brain, Her Brain" ,
from Scientific American Michael Chorost .
"My Bionic Quest for Bolero " ,
from Wired Daniel C. Dennett .
"Show Me the Science" ,
from The New York Times Frans B. M. De Waal .
"How Animals Do Business" (*),
from Scientific American David Dobbs .
"Buried Answers" ,
from The New York Times Magazine Mark Dowie .
"Conservation Refugees" ,
from Orion John Hockenberry .
"The Blogs of War" ,
from Wired John Horgan .
"The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips" ($), (alternate ),
from Scientific American Gordon Kane .
"The Mysteries of Mass" ,
from Scientific American Kevin Krajick .
"Future Shocks" ,
from Smithsonian Kevin Krajick .
"The Mummy Doctor" ($),
from The New Yorker Robert Kunzig .
"X-Ray Vision" ,
from Discover Juan Maldacena .
"The Illusion of Gravity" ($),
from Scientific American Charles C. Mann .
"The Coming Death Shortage" ,
from The Atlantic Monthly Chris Mooney .
"The Dover Monkey Trial" ,
from Seed Dennis Overbye .
"Remembrance of Things Future" ,
from The New York Times Paul Raffaele .
"Out of Time" ,
from Smithsonian Daniel Roth .
"Torrential Reign" ,
from Fortune Jessica Snyder Sachs .
"Are Antibiotics Killing Us?" ,
from Discover Oliver Sachs .
"Remembering Francis Crick" ($),
from The New York Review of Books David Samuels .
"Buried Suns" ,
from Harper's Magazine Josh Schollmeyer .
"Lights, Camera, Armageddon",
from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Moncef Zouali .
"Taming Lupus" ($),
from Scientific American Paul Bennett .
"In Rome's Basement" , from National Geographic Susan Casey .
"Plastic Ocean" , from Best Life Richard Conniff .
"For the Love of Lemurs" ($), from Smithsonian Alison Hawthorne Deming .
"The Rabbit on Mars", from Isotope Brian Doyle .
"Fishering" , from Ecotone Helen Fields .
"Dinosaur Shocker!" , from Smithsonian Patricia Gadsby .
"Cooking for Eggheads" , from Discover James Gleick .
"Cyber-Neologoliferation" , from The New York Times Magazine John Horgan .
"The Final Frontier" , from Discover William Langewiesche .
"How To Get a Nuclear Bomb" , from The Atlantic Monthly John Lehrer .
"The Effeminate Sheep" , from Seed Michael D. Lemonick .
"Let There Be Light" , from Time Jeffrey A. Lockwood .
"The Nature of Violence" , from Orion Lynn Margulis and Emily Case .
"The Germs of Life" , from Orion Steve Olson .
"Neanderthal Man" , from Smithsonian Michael Perry .
"Health Secrets from the Morgue" , from Men's Health Heather Pringle .
"Hitler's Willing Archaeologists" , from Archaeology Jonathan Rauch .
"Sex, Lies, and Video Games" (alternate ), from The Atlantic Monthly Michael Rosenwald .
"The Flu Hunter" , from Smithsonian Bonnie J. Rough .
"Notes on the Space We Take", from Ninth Letter Robert M. Sapolsky .
"The Olfactory Lives of Primates" , from The Virginia Quarterly Review John Seabrook .
"Ruffled Feathers" ($) (alternate ), from The New Yorker Bill Sherwonit .
"In the Company of Bears" , from Anchorage Press Michael Shnayerson .
"The Rape of Appalachia" , from Vanity Fair Meridith F. Small .
"First Soldier of the Gene Wars" ($), from Archaeology Robert H. Socolow and Stephen W. Pacala .
"A Plan to Keep Carbon in Check" (PDF), from Scientific America Neil deGrasse Tyson .
"Delusions of Space Enthusiasts" , from Natural History Ethan Watters .
"DNA Is Not Destiny" , from Discover 2008
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