The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

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by Dan Ariely


  The Rucksack of Joseph Dalton Hooker. Alpinist, Winter.

  NATHANIEL RICH

  The Luckiest Woman on Earth. Harper’s Magazine, August.

  Red Eden. The Believer, May.

  PAUL ROBERTS

  The Last Drops. Popular Science, July.

  ADAM RUBEN

  Experimental Error: Fetus Don’t Fail Me Now. sciencecareers.sciencemag.org, May 27.

  HAMPTON SIDES

  The Man Who Saw Too Much. Outside, January.

  CHARLES SIEBERT

  Joy for Orphan Elephants. National Geographic, September.

  ERIK SOFGE

  The Early Adopter’s Guide to Space Travel. Popular Mechanics, May.

  DON STAP

  Grains of Change. Audubon, March–April.

  PAUL J. STEINHARDT

  The Inflation Debate. Scientific American, April.

  NEAL STEPHENSON

  Innovation Starvation. www.wired.com, October 27.

  DAWN STOVER

  The “Scientization” of Yucca Mountain. www.thebulletin.org, October 12.

  MEERA SUBRAMANIAN

  India’s Vanishing Vultures. Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring.

  ELIZABETH SVOBODA

  Is Fusion Finally for Real? Popular Mechanics, June.

  STEPHAN TALTY

  Shark! Playboy, June.

  GARY TAUBES

  Is Sugar Toxic? New York Times, April 13.

  DICK TERESI

  Lynn Margulis Says She’s Not Controversial, She’s Right. Discover, April.

  ABIGAIL TUCKER

  Dig, Drink and Be Merry. Smithsonian, August.

  ERIK VANCE

  Dolphin Desperadoes. Discover, September.

  VLATKA VEDRAL

  Living in a Quantum World. Scientific American, June.

  KATY VINE

  The Birdman of Texas. Texas Monthly, May.

  JAMES VLAHOS

  Blue Sky Power. Popular Mechanics, March.

  BARRY YEOMAN

  Lake Erie Deathwatch. www.onearth.org, August 31.

  JOCELYN C. ZUCKERMAN

  Constant Gardeners. OnEarth, Winter.

  MARLENE ZUK

  Six Legs. Natural History, June.

  About the Editors

  DAN ARIELY, author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University.

  TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science for several magazines.

 

 

 


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