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A review by booksforjake
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020 by Michio Kaku, Michio Kaku, Jaime Green
5.0
“So scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exiting and relevant to the average person, so that they care about science. If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face dire consequences.”
Awesome anthology of science writing. Topics ranged from things I knew I was interested in (animal consciousness, glaciers disappearing from Yosemite, the search for extraterrestrial life) to subjects I didn’t know much about but was happy to learn about (human aging, AI)
Other quotes I liked:
“One evolutionary rationale is that there is something essential to human groups, with the slowly unfolding infancy of their young, in keeping the old folks around even when they can’t make more young folks. Old folks are the cultural repositories of extended cultural memory: it would seem to be advantageous to have a few senior citizens around who know what to do, so to speak, when winter comes.”
“The true condition of youth is the physical ability to forget ourselves”
Awesome anthology of science writing. Topics ranged from things I knew I was interested in (animal consciousness, glaciers disappearing from Yosemite, the search for extraterrestrial life) to subjects I didn’t know much about but was happy to learn about (human aging, AI)
Other quotes I liked:
“One evolutionary rationale is that there is something essential to human groups, with the slowly unfolding infancy of their young, in keeping the old folks around even when they can’t make more young folks. Old folks are the cultural repositories of extended cultural memory: it would seem to be advantageous to have a few senior citizens around who know what to do, so to speak, when winter comes.”
“The true condition of youth is the physical ability to forget ourselves”