The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

Carl Zimmer, Jaime Green

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780063293212
• eBook ISBN: 9780063293229
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Literature

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.

 “What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted,” writes guest editor Carl Zimmer in his introduction. The essays in this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer’s disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous intelligence, clarity, and insight, this anthology offers an expansive look at where we are and where we are headed.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 includes JESSICA CAMILLE AGUIRRE • VANESSA GREGORY • SABRINA IMBLER FERRIS JABR • MARION RENAULT • ELIZABETH SVOBODA NATALIE WOLCHOVER • SARAH ZHANG and others  

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• An Invisible Epidemic
• The Myopia Generation
• A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
• The Coming Collapse
• My Metamorphosis
• The Bird and the Flame
• Dislodged
• Bright Flight
• Brain Wave
• The Provincetown Breakthrough
• True Grit
• Another Green World
• A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s
• In El Salvador and Beyond, an Unsolved Kidney Disease Mystery
• The Climate Underground
• The Butterfly Effect
• Shadows, Tokens, Spring
• An Ark for Amphibians
• Don’t Look Down
• American Motherhood
• Contributors’ Notes
• Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2022
• About the Editors
• Guest Editors of The Best American Science and Nature Writing
• About Mariner Books
• Copyright
• About the Publisher