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Title:

Best American science and nature writing 2020 / edited and with and introduction by Michio Kaku ; Jaime Green, series editor

Publisher:

Mariner BooksHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxviii, 343 pages ; 21 cm

Other Authors:

Kaku, Michio, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- Introduction -- The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski Sleep no more (from Wind) / Kelly Clancy -- What remains (from the California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane -- With a simple twist, a "Magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta magazine) / David H. Freedman -- The eighth continent (from the New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen -- The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain (from the Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour -- Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik -- Right under our noses (from Wires) / Sara Harrison -- I, language robot (from Los Angeles review of books) / Patrick House -- Beauty of the beasts (from the New York Times magazines) / Ferris Jarr -- Ghosts of the future (from The Washington post ) / Sarah Kaplan -- Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from New Yorker) / Adam Mann -- Total eclipse (From Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool -- We have fire everywhere (from the New York Times magazine) / Jon Mooallem -- Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer -- New blood (from the New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee -- The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston -- The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth -- The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook -- Troubled treasure (from Science magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta magazine) / Joshua Sokol -- The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone -- A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover -- The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski

Summary:

Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.

Series:

The best American series

ISBN:

0358074290
9780358074298

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1192354971

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)