March 20, 2006

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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006

If you enjoy the articles below, I imagine you’ll consider subscribing to the periodicals that published them, or at least buying The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, where they’re all assembled. Enjoy.

• The American Scholar: My God Problem, by Natalie Angier
• The New Yorker: Hollywood Science, Connie Bruck
• The New York Review of Books: Out, Damned Blot!, Frederick Crews
• The New York Review of Books: Twilight at Easter, Jared Diamond
• Popular Science: My Little Brother on Drugs, Jenny Everett
• The New York Review of Books: Stumbling Into Space, Timothy Ferris
• The New Yorker: Getting Over It, Malcolm Gladwell
• The New Yorker: Personality Plus, Malcolm Gladwell
• The New Yorker: The Grief Industry, Jerome Groopman
• The New York Times: Keeping the Faith in My Doubt, John Horgan
• Wired: The Homeless Hacker vs. The New York Times, Jennifer Kahn
• Discover: 20,000 Microbes Under the Sea, Robert Kunzig ($)
The Atlantic Monthly: A Two-Planet Species?, Wililam Langewiesche ($)
• The New York Review of Books: Crossing the Red Line, Bill McKibben
• Esquire: Please Stand By While the Age of Miracles Is Briefly Suspended, James McManus
• The New York Review of Books: Getting in Nature’s Way, Sherwin B. Nuland
• Wired: To Hell and Back, Jeffrey M. O’Brien
• The New Yorker: The X Prize, Ian Parker ($)
• The New York Review of Books: In the River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks
• The New Yorker: Miracle in a Bottle, Michael Specter
• Scientific American: The Curious History of the First Pocket Calculator, Cliff Stoll ($)
• The American Scholar: Dining with Robots, Ellen Ullman ($)
• Popular Science: 106 Science Claims and a Truckful of Baloney, William Speed
• Discover: Whose Life Would You Save?, Carl Zimmer

$ = subscriber-only. Here’s 2004.