The best American science and nature writing 2020
Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
| Other Authors: | Kaku, Michio,, Green, Jaime,, Andersen, Ross., Clancy, Kelly., Duane, Daniel, 1967-, Freedman, David H., 1954-, Galchen, Rivka., Gholipour, Bahar., Gopnik, Adam., Harrison, Sara., House, Patrick., Jarr, Ferris., Kaplan, Sarah., Mann, Adam., McCool, Deanna Csomo., Mooallem, Jon., Moyer, Melinda Wenner., Mukherjee, Siddhartha., Preston, Douglas J., Requarth, Tim., Seabrook, John., Sokol, Joshua., Stirone, Shannon., Wolchover, Natalie., Zaleski, Andrew. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: |
xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Best American series.
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| Summary: |
Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines. Foreword -- Introduction -- A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen -- Sleep no more (from Wind) / Kelly Clancy -- What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane -- With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) / David H. Freedman -- The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen -- The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour -- Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik -- Right under our noses (from Wired) / Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles review of books) / Patrick House -- Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazine) / Ferris Jarr -- Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post) / Sarah Kaplan -- Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (From Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) / Jon Mooallem -- Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer -- New blood (from the New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston -- The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth -- The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook -- Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone -- A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover -- The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski. |
| Physical Description: |
xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780358074298 0358074290 |
| ISSN: |
1530-1508. |