TY - BOOK AU - Zimmer,Carl AU - Green,Jaime AU - Svoboda,Elizabeth AU - Zhang,Sarah AU - Wolchover,Natalie AU - Fox,Douglas AU - Imbler,Sabrina AU - Gilman,Sarah AU - McColough,Josh AU - Gregory,Vanessa AU - Jabr,Ferris AU - McKenna,Maryn AU - MacKinnon,J.B. AU - Aguirre,Jessica Camille AU - Renault,Marion AU - Reveley,Fletcher AU - Benson,Emily AU - Koerth,Maggie AU - Mauk,Ben AU - Whitcomb,Isobel AU - Parshley,Lois AU - Lowrey,Annie TI - The best American science & nature writing 2023 T2 - The best American series, SN - 9780063293212 AV - QH45.5 .B47 2023 U1 - 500 23 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Mariner Books KW - Science KW - Literary collections KW - Nature KW - Literature KW - lcgft KW - Essays N1 - At head of title: Mariner Books presents; Foreword --; Introduction --; An invisible epidemic; Elizabeth Svoboda --; The myopia generation; Sarah Zhang --; A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink structure of nature's laws; Natalie Wolchover --; The coming collapse; Douglas Fox --; My metamorphosis; Sabrina Imbler --; The bird and the flame; Sarah Gilman --; Dislodged; Josh McColough --; Bright flight; Vaessa Gregory --; Brain wave; Ferris Jabr --; The Provincetown breakthrough; Maryn McKenna --; True grit; J. B. MacKinnon --; Another green world; Jessica Camille Aguirre --; A French village's radical vision of a good life with Alzheimer's; Marion Reault --; In El Salvador and beyond, an unsolved kidney disease mystery; Fletcher Reveley --; The climate underground; Emily Benson --; The butterfly effect; Maggie Koerth --; Shadows, tokens, spring; Ben Mauk --; An ark for amphibians; Isobel Whitcomb --; Don't look down; Lois Parshley --; American motherhood; Annie Lowrey N2 - 20 science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022; The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal how science and nature shape our everyday lives. With tremendous intelligence, clarity, and insight, this anthology offers an expansive look at where we are and where we are headed ER -