Reviews

The Best of the Best American Science Writing by Jesse Cohen, Jerome Groopman

vdarcangelo's review against another edition

5.0

Faves:

William Langewiesche: "Columbia's Last Flight"

Tom Mueller: "Your Move"

Atul Gawande: "When Doctors Make Mistakes"

Lauren Slater: "Dr. Daedalus"

Michael Benson: "What Galileo Saw"

carrie562's review against another edition

3.0

Very uneven collection culled from the Best American Science Writing collections 2000-2009.

Five stars to:
Atul Gawande, "When Doctors Make Mistakes"
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, "Truth and Consequences"
Margaret Talbot, "Birdbrain"
Gary Taubes, "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat"

dreamybee's review against another edition

4.0

This collection covers 2000-2009, and although I was a little surprised at what comprised "the best" science writing for some of those years (Darwin's had a big influence on modern thought? Really? That's the best you've got for the whole year?), over all I enjoyed the articles. It was interesting to see how scientific focus has progressed over the last decade, knowing where we were just a decade before and, even, where we are now. Although the articles are all science-based, they aren't all technical; many investigate the moral and ethical aspects of science as well, and these were the ones that I found most interesting.