The best American science and nature writing 2018 /

"This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discov...

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Group Author: Kean, Sam; Folger, Tim
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Publisher Address: Boston, MA :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The best American series
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Summary: "This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before." The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart the full spectrum of those discoveries. From the outer reaches of space, to the mysteries of the human mind, to the changing culture in labs and universities across the nation, we see time and again the sometimes rock
Item Description: "A Mariner original."
Carrier Form: xxiv, 336 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 9781328987808
1328987809
Index Number: PN6071
CLC: N49
Call Number: N49/B561/2018
Contents: Transformative science: "We are not just resistors, we are transformers."
Pleistocene park /
It'll take an army to kill the Emperor /
Rethining established science: "What do we want? Evidence-based science. When do we want it? After peer review."
The squeeze : Silicon Valley reinvents the breast pump /
The case against civilization /
Cancer's invasion equation /
The island wolves /
Environmental science: "At th