The best American science and nature writing 2008 / edited and with an introduction by Jerome Groopman

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Includes bibliographical references

Zonkeys are pretty much my favorite animal / Jon Cohen -- The interpreter / John Colapinto -- The universe's invisible hand / Christopher J. Conselice -- Untangling the mystery of the Inca / Gareth Cook -- Restoring America's big, wild animals / C. Josh Donlan -- Our biotech future / Freeman Dyson -- The coming robot army / Steve Featherstone -- Malaria: stopping a global killer / Michael Finkel -- The first assassination of the twenty-first century / James Geary -- Our silver-coated future / Robin Marantz Henig -- Children are diamonds / Edward Hoagland -- The selfless gene / Olivia Judson -- The autumn of the multitaskers / Walter Kirn -- First churches of the Jesus cult / Andrew Lawler -- A curious attractions / Jon Mooallem -- Swingers / Ian Parker -- Science and Islam in conflict / Todd Pitock -- Deadly contact / David Quammen -- How to trick an online scammer into carving a computer out of wood / Ron Rosenbaum -- A bolt from the blue / Oliver Sacks -- Darwin's surprise / Michael Specter -- The CSI effect / Jeffrey Toobin -- Numbers can lie / Andreas von Bubnoff -- A mighty wind / Florence Williams

Jerome Groopman selects twenty-four works of American science and nature writing as the best of the genre from the year 2007, including pieces by John Colapinto, Oliver Sacks, Jeffrey Toobin, and others