Chad is complaining that The Best American Science Writing 2008 is too focused on biomedical science. He finds it especially lame that there’s no physics when this was the year of the LHC. Here’s what I found in the contents….
Amy Harmon, Facing Life with a Lethal Gene
Richard Preston, An Error in the Code
Thomas Goetz, 23anMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
Carl Zimmer, Evolved for Cancer
Tara Parker-Pope, How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002
Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey, and Janet Roberts, Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry’s Role
Daniel Carlat, Dr. Drug Rep
Tina Rosenberg, When Is a Pain Doctor a Drug Pusher
Jerome Groopman, What’s Normal
Sally Satel, Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants
Oliver Sacks, The Abyss
Ben McGrath, Muscle Memory
Margaret Talbot, Duped
Stephen S. Hall, The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
Al Gore, Moving Beyond Kyoto
Jim Yardley, Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up
Joseph Kahn, In China, a Lake’s Champion Imperils Himself
John Seabrook, Sowing for Apocalypse
I see only one physical science pure play in the list. Looks like Chad has a point.
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