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| Genre/Form: | Popular works |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jennifer Ouellette; Bora Zivkovic |
| ISBN: | 9780374533342 0374533342 |
| OCLC Number: | 797975793 |
| Description: | xv, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Somata / Aubrey J. Sanders -- Make history, not Vitamin C / Eva Amsen -- Saving Ethiopia's "Church forests" / T. DeLene Beeland -- What it feels like for a sperm / Aatish Bhatia -- Incredible journey / Lee Billings -- In the shadows of greatness / Biochem Belle -- A view to a kill in the morning / Deborah Blum -- It's sedimentary, my dear Watson / David Bressan -- Mentruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using / Kate Clancy -- Joule's jewel / Stephen Curry -- Unraveling the fear o' the Jolly Roger / Krystal D'Costa -- Free science, one paper at a time / David Dobbs -- Tinea speaks up: a fairy tale / Cindy M. Doran -- Man discovers a new life-form at a South African truck stop / Rob Dunn -- Moon arts: fallen astronaut / Claire L. Evans -- Science metaphors: resonance / Ann Finkbeiner -- Bombardier beetles, bee purple, and the sirens of the night / Jennifer Frazer -- Mpemba's baffling discovery / Greg Gbur -- Romeo: a lone Wolf's tragedy in three acts / Kimberly Gerson -- Rats, bees, and brains: the death of the "Cognitive map" / Jason C. Goldman -- Don't panic: sustainable seafood and the American outlaw / Miriam C. Goldstein -- On beards, biology, and being a real American / Joe Hanson -- I love Gin and Tonics / Matthew Hartings -- Adorers of the good science of rock-breaking / Dana Hunter -- "I feel the percussive roar on the skin of my face" / Karen James -- Freedom to riot / Eric Michael Johnson -- Inside the "Black box" of nuclear power plants / Maggie Koerth-Baker -- This ain't yo momma's muktuk / Rebecca Kreston -- Chessboxing is fighting for good behavior / Andrea Kuszewski -- Mirror images: twins and identity / David Manly -- Did the CIA fake a vaccination campaign? / Maryn McKenna -- Free will and quantum clones / George Musser Jr. -- Dear Emma B / PZ Myers -- Faster than a speeding photon / Chad Orzel -- Sunrise in the garden of dreams / Puff the Mutant Dragon -- Volts and Vespa: buzzing about photoelectric wasps / John Rennie -- How to stop a hurricane / Casey Rentz -- Shakes on a plane: can turbulence kill you? / Alex Reshanov -- How addiction feels: the honest truth / Cassie Rodenberg -- Ten million feet upon the stair / Chris Rowan -- Woof! Living boldly as a "free-range aspergian" / Steve Silberman -- The dodo is dead, long live the dodo! / Brian Switek -- Sex and the married neurotic / Melanie Tannenbaum -- Why do women cry? Obviously it's so they don't get laid / Christie Wilcox -- How to take the real measure of a man / Allie Wilkinson -- The origin and extinction of species / David Winter -- Genome sequencing and assembly, Shakespeare style / Richard F. Wintle -- The intelligent homosexual's guide to natural selection / Jeremy Yoder -- The Renaissance man / Ed Yong -- Fragmented intimacies / Shana Yurkiewicz -- The human lake / Carl Zimmer. |
| Responsibility: | Bora Zivkovic, series editor ; Jennifer Ouellette, guest editor. |
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<p>"[The Best Science Writing Online 2012] is full--stuffed--with excellent science writing, more than enough to keep you reading . . . Buy it. It is worth your time." --"Wired Science Blogs"<p>"A collection of fun and interesting science, from online writers around the world." --"The Guardian" (blog) <br>"[A] potent mix of critical analyses, witty personal reflections, absorbing feature profiles, illuminating commentary on the intersection of science and social policy, and even long-form investigative journalism, covering everything from the last space shuttle launch to fluid dynamics to gender politics." --"Brain Pickings"<p>"A collection of solid science writing celebrating a diversity of topics, writer credentials and styles. Proof that science writing online is healthy and growing. For naive surfers, an anthology like this will help separate the wheat from the chaff."--"Kirkus"<p>Praise for previous editions: <p>"[C]onsistently picks the best of the best blogs. Read it." --Ivan Oransky, MD, Executive Editor, "Reuters Health" and Blogger, "Embargo Watch" and "Retraction Watch" <p>"This is the best of the science blogosphere 2010, selected by experts, and features something for anyone and everyone curious about the natural world." --Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of "The Science of Kissing" and "Discover"'s "The Intersection" blog <p>"Some of the smartest, best informed, and--yes--most entertaining writing about science today can be found in the vibrant community of science bloggers. Each year [the] series performs an invaluable service by pulling together some of the highlights--proof that the best blog posts can and should be savored long after they've scrolled off the bottom of the screen." --Scott Rosenberg, author of "Say Everything" and "Dreaming in Code," and co-founder of Salon.com<p>"In each post I found honesty, passion, imagination, curiosity and creativity shining through in a way that the disinterested 'article mill' of traditional journalism is rarel Read more...
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