The best American science and nature writing 2013
By: edited and with an introduction by Siddhartha Mukherjee ; Tim Folger, series editor
Contributors: MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard), 1970- author; Hale, Benjamin, author; Zimmermann, Tim, author; Deutsch, David, 1953- author; Ekert, Artur K., 1961- author; Moyer, Michael, author; Earle, Sylvia A., 1935- author; Pavlus, John, author; Nijhuis, Michelle, author; Bass, Rick, 1958- author; Forrest, Brett, author; Groopman, Jerome E., author; Owen, David, 1955- author; Specter, Michael, author; Lightman, Alan P., 1948- author; Quammen, David, 1948- author; Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author; Kolbert, Elizabeth, author; Gessen, Keith, author; Weinberg, Steven, 1933- author; Cook, Gareth, 1969- author; Angier, Natalie, author; Sapolsky, Robert M., author; Courage, Katherine Harmon, author; Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- author; Marche, Stephen, author; Bowden, Mark, 1951- author; Dutton, Kevin, 1967- author
Series: Best American series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Mariner Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780544003439
Subjects: Natural history; Science; Literary collections; Nature
Description: Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
Notes: "A Mariner original."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Tom Fogler; title: Introduction: On tenderness  -- Siddhartha Mukherjee; title: False idyll -- from; title: Orion  -- J.B. MacKinnon; title: The last distinction -- from; title: Harper's magazine  -- Benjamin Hale; title: Talk to me -- from; title: Outside  -- Tim Zimmerman; title: Beyond the quantum horizon -- from; title: Scientific American  -- David Deutsch and Artur Ekert; title: Is space digital? -- from; title: Scientific American  -- Michael Moyer; title: The sweet spot in time -- from; title: Virginia quarterly review  -- Sylvia A. Earle; title: Machines of the infinite -- from; title: Scientific American  -- John Pavlus; title: Which species will live? -- from; title: Scientific American  -- Michelle Nijhuis; title: The larch -- g from; title: Orion  -- Rick Bass; title: Shattered genius -- from; title: Playboy  -- Brett Forrest; title: The T-cell army -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Jerome Groopman; title: The artificial leaf -- from; title: New Yorker  -- David Owen; title: The deadliest virus -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Michael Specter; title: Our place in the universe -- from; title: Harper's magazine  -- Alan Lightman; title: Out of the wild -- from; title: Popular science  -- David Quammen; title: Altered states -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Oliver Sacks; title: Recall of the wild -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Elizabeth Kolbert; title: Polar express -- from; title: New Yorker  -- Keith Gessen; title: The crisis of big science -- from; title: New York review of books  -- Steven Weinberg; title: Autism inc. -- from; title: New York times magazine  -- Gareth Cook; title: The life of pi and other infinities -- from; title: New York times  -- Natalie Angier; title: Super humanity -- from; title: Scientific American -- Robert M. Sapolsky; title: The patient scientist -- from; title: Scientific American  -- Katherine Harmon; title: Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? -- from; title: New York times magazine  -- Nathaniel Rich; title: Is Facebook making us lonely? -- from; title: Atlantic  -- Stephen Marche; title: The measured man -- from; title: Atlantic  -- Mark Bowden; title: The wisdom of psychopaths -- from; title: Scientific American  -- Kevin Dutton; title: Contributors' notes --; title: Other notable science and nature writing of 2012.