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, a yearly anthology of
"the best" magazine articles about science and nature (2000-present),
I'm using the opportunity to create an online index of the articles in
each volume which are also available online. Online versions often
include pictures not included in the book. See also the "Key" at the end
of the page. [last update: September 2008]
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2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
*Natalie Angier.
"My God Problem", from The American Scholar
*Connie Bruck.
"Hollywood Science", from The New Yorker
*Frederick Crews.
"Out, Damned Blot!" (*), from The New York Review of Books
*Jared Diamond.
"Twilight at Easter" (*), from The New York Review of Books
*Jenny Everett.
"My Little Brother on Drugs", from Popular Science
*Timothy Ferris.
"Stumbling into Space" ($), from The New York Review of Books
*Malcolm Gladwell.
"Getting Over It" (alternate), from The New Yorker
*Malcolm Gladwell.
"Personality Plus", from The New Yorker
*Jerome Groopman.
"The Grief Industry" (alternate), from The New Yorker
*John Horgan.
"Keeping the Faith in My Doubt" (alternate), from The New York Times
*Jennifer Kahn.
"The Homeless Hacker v. The New York Times", from Wired
*Robert Kunzig.
"20,000 Microbes Under The Sea", from Discover
*William Langewiesche.
"A Two-Planet Species?", from The Atlantic Monthly
*Bill McKibben.
"Crossing the Red Line" (alternate), from The New York Review of Books
*James McManus.
"Please Stand By While the Age of Miracles Is Briefly Suspended", from Esquire
*Sherwin B. Nuland.
"Getting in Nature's Way", from The New York Review of Books
*Sherwin B. Nuland.
"The Man or the Moment?", from The American Scholar
*Jeffrey M. O'Brien.
"To Hell and Back", from Wired
*Ian Parker.
"The X Prize" ($), 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" ($), (alternate),
from The New York Review of Books
* David Samuels.
"Buried Suns",
from Harper's Magazine
* Josh Schollmeyer.
"Lights, Camera, Armageddon" (*),
from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
* Moncef Zouali.
"Taming Lupus" ($),
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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Key
$ - Article is behind a pay wall.
* - Article is behind a pay wall, but a free copy (unofficial) has been found. If the link is dead, try searching Google for other copies.
Please feel free to email me with any corrections, many of the links may
change over time.
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