The best science writing online 2012 /
Bora Zivkovic, series editor ; Jennifer Ouellette, guest editor.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- xv, 328 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Somata / Make history, not Vitamin C / Saving Ethiopia's "Church forests" / What it feels like for a sperm / Incredible journey / In the shadows of greatness / A view to a kill in the morning / It's sedimentary, my dear Watson / Mentruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using / Joule's jewel / Unraveling the fear o' the Jolly Roger / Free science, one paper at a time / Tinea speaks up: a fairy tale / Man discovers a new life-form at a South African truck stop / Moon arts: fallen astronaut / Science metaphors: resonance / Bombardier beetles, bee purple, and the sirens of the night / Romeo: a lone Wolf's tragedy in three acts / Rats, bees, and brains: the death of the "Cognitive map" / Don't panic: sustainable seafood and the American outlaw / On beards, biology, and being a real American / I love Gin and Tonics / Adorers of the good science of rock-breaking / "I feel the percussive roar on the skin of my face" / Freedom to riot / Inside the "Black box" of nuclear power plants / This ain't yo momma's muktuk / Chessboxing is fighting for good behavior / Mirror images: twins and identity / Did the CIA fake a vaccination campaign? / Free will and quantum clones / Dear Emma B / Faster than a speeding photon / Sunrise in the garden of dreams / Volts and Vespa: buzzing about photoelectric wasps / How to stop a hurricane / Shakes on a plane: can turbulence kill you? / How addiction feels: the honest truth / Ten million feet upon the stair / Woof! Living boldly as a "free-range aspergian" / The dodo is dead, long live the dodo! / Sex and the married neurotic / Why do women cry? Obviously it's so they don't get laid / How to take the real measure of a man / The origin and extinction of species / Genome sequencing and assembly, Shakespeare style / The intelligent homosexual's guide to natural selection / The Renaissance man / Fragmented intimacies / The human lake / Aubrey J. Sanders -- Eva Amsen -- T. DeLene Beeland -- Aatish Bhatia -- Lee Billings -- Biochem Belle -- Deborah Blum -- David Bressan -- Kate Clancy -- Stephen Curry -- Krystal D'Costa -- David Dobbs -- Cindy M. Doran -- Rob Dunn -- Claire L. Evans -- Ann Finkbeiner -- Jennifer Frazer -- Mpemba's baffling discovery / Greg Gbur -- Kimberly Gerson -- Jason C. Goldman -- Miriam C. Goldstein -- Joe Hanson -- Matthew Hartings -- Dana Hunter -- Karen James -- Eric Michael Johnson -- Maggie Koerth-Baker -- Rebecca Kreston -- Andrea Kuszewski -- David Manly -- Maryn McKenna -- George Musser Jr. -- PZ Myers -- Chad Orzel -- Puff the Mutant Dragon -- John Rennie -- Casey Rentz -- Alex Reshanov -- Cassie Rodenberg -- Chris Rowan -- Steve Silberman -- Brian Switek -- Melanie Tannenbaum -- Christie Wilcox -- Allie Wilkinson -- David Winter -- Richard F. Wintle -- Jeremy Yoder -- Ed Yong -- Shana Yurkiewicz -- Carl Zimmer.