October 24, 2006

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Best American Science & Nature Writing 2006

Another year, another anthology of science articles. The book is, as always, a highly recommended purchase. And if you’re not already a subscriber to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, well, what are you waiting for?

• The New York Times: Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore, by Natalie Angier
• The New York Times Magazine: Dr. Ecstasy, by Drake Bennett
• Scientific American: His Brain, Her Brain, by Larry Cahill
• Wired: My Bionic Quest for Boléro, by Michael Chorost
• The New York Times: Show Me the Science, by Daniel C. Dennett
• Scientific American: How Animals Do Business, by Frans B.M. de Waal ($)
• The New York Times Magazine: Buried Answers, by David Dobbs
• Orion: Conservation Refugees, by Mark Dowie
• Wired: The Blogs of War, by John Hockenberry
• Scientific American: The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips, by John Horgan ($ | pdf)
• Scientific American: The Mysteries of Mass, by Gordon Kane
• Smithsonian: Future Shocks, by Kevin Krajick
• Discover: X-Ray Vision, by Robert Kunzig
• Scientific American: The Illusion of Gravity, by Juan Maldacena ($ | pdf)
• The Atlantic Monthly: The Coming Death Shortage, by Charles C. Mann
• Seed: The Dover Monkey Trial, by Chris Mooney
• The New York Times: Remembrance of Things Future, by Dennis Overbye
• Smithsonian: Out of Time, by Paul Raffaele
• Fortune: Torrential Reign, by Daniel Roth
• Discover: Are Antibiotics Killing Us?, by Jessica Snyder Sachs
• The New York Review of Books: Remembering Francis Crick, by Oliver Sacks ($)
• Harper’s Magazine: Buried Suns, by David Samuels
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Lights, Camera, Armageddon, by Josh Schollmeyer
• Scientific American: Taming Lupus, by Moncef Zouali ($)

$ = subscriber-only. Here’s 2005 and 2004.