TY - BOOK AU - Groopman,Jerome E. AU - Folger,Tim TI - The best American science and nature writing 2008 T2 - Best American series, SN - 9780618834471 (pbk) U1 - 500 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Science KW - Nature KW - Natural history KW - Technical writing N1 - "A Mariner original."; Foreword --; Introduction; by Elizabeth Kolbert --; Faustian economics; Wendell Berry --; The; ethics of climate change; John Broome --; Is Google making us stupid?; Nicholas Carr --; High-tech trash; Chris Carroll --; Intel inside; Andrew Curry --; Blown apart; Keay Davidson --; Did life begin in ice?; Douglas Fox --; The; day before Genesis; Adam Frank --; The; itch; Atul Gawande --; The; mushroom cloud's silver lining; David Grimm --; Last of the Neanderthals; Stephen S. Hall --; Virtual Iraq; Sue Halpern --; Chain reaction; Walter Issacson --; Wasteland; Frederick Kaufman --; Minds of their own; Virginia Morell --; Back to the future; J. Madeleine Nash --; To take wilderness in hand; Michelle Nijhuis --; How we evolve; Benjamin Phelan --; Pop psychology; Virginia Postrel --; Contagious cancer; David Quammen --; The; reality tests; Joshua Roebke --; Darwin and the meaning of flowers; Oliver Sacks --; Animalcules and other little subjects; Mark A. Smith --; Big foot; Michael Specter --; Red is the new green; Patrick Symmes --; Stayin' Alive; Gary Wolf ER -