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Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk, and Packing for Mars, this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.
Foreword by Tim Folger
Introduction by Mary Roach
YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE
The Organ Dealer
from Discover
BURKHARD BILGER
Nature’s Spoils
from The New Yorker
DEBORAH BLUM
The Chemist’s War
from
Slate
JON COHEN
Fertility Rites
from
The Atlantic
LUKE DITTRICH
The Brain That Changed Everything
from Esquire
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Emptying the Skies
from The New Yorker
IAN FRAZIER
Fish Out of Water
from
The New Yorker
DAVID H. FREEDMAN
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
from
The Atlantic
ATUL GAWANDE
Letting Go
from
The New Yorker
MALCOLM GLADWELL
The Treatment
from
The New Yorker
ANDREW GRANT
Cosmic Blueprint of Life
from Discover
STEPHEN HAWKING AND LEONARD MLODINOW
The (Elusive) Theory of Everything
from
Scientific American
AMY IRVINE
Spectral Light 191
from
Orion
ROWAN JACOBSEN
The Spill Seekers
from
Outside
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
New Dog in Town
from Orion
DAN KOEPPEL
Taking a Fall
from
Popular Mechanics
JARON LANIER
The First Church of Robotics
from The
New York Times
JON MOOALLEM
The Love That Dare Not Squawk Its Name
from The
New York Times Magazine
GEORGE MUSSER
Could Time End?
from Scientific American
JILL SISSON QUINN
Sign Here If You Exist
from
Ecotone
OLIVER SACKS
Face-Blind
from
The New Yorker
EVAN I. SCHWARTZ
Waste MGMT
from
Wired
SANDRA STEINGRABER
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
from Orion
ABIGAIL TUCKER
The New King of the Sea
from
Smithsonian
TIM ZIMMERMANN
The Killer in the Pool
from Outside
Could Time End?
from Scientific American
