Reviews

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Tim Folger

brizreading's review

4.0

Always enjoyable; this edition had maybe more hits than misses, compared to the series' average. Enjoyed the articles on the entrepreneurial Autism Inc (where autistic are matched into jobs for which they're uniquely suited), the immortal jellyfish clone (and the eccentric Japanese scientist who's dedicated his life to studying it), those kinky and hypersmart dolphins, and - of course - a good, wholesome undermining of Facebook and how it's soul-destroying. Indeed, the Facebook article informed my reading of E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops next!

18thstjoe's review

4.0

Good collection of interesting stories, I most enjoyed the ones on shipping on the article route, and the autistic consulting firm

balletbookworm's review

4.0

Very good on the whole. I would have liked more "science-y" articles but that's just me. Also, couldn't quite get a take on the essay about shipping Russian iron ore to China via the Arctic and the Bering Strait - sort of about global warming and globalization, but then not very science oriented either.

spookyjane's review

I didn't finish this collection, just to focus on other things. The essays I did read (about the first half of the book, as well as the Oliver Sacks essay) were quite good and very interesting. Perhaps I'll pick this back up at a later date, but for now there are other things I need to focus on.

carabones's review

4.0

I devour these collections every year. favorites include:

False Idyll by J.B. MacKinnon
Talk to Me by Tim Zimmerman
The Sweet Spot in Time by Sylvia A. Earle
Which Species Will Live? by Michelle Nijhuis
The Larch by Rick Bass
Out of the Wild by David Quammen
Recall of the Wild by Elizabeth Kolbert
Beyond Limits by Robert M. Sapolsky
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? by Nathaniel Rich
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? by Stephen Marche
The Measured Man by Mark Bowden