Table of Contents
Foreword Tim Folger xi
Introduction Deborah Blum xv
Mixed Up Katherine Bagley. 1
The Great Forgetting Nicholas Carr. 8
The Social Life of Genes David Dobbs. 19
What Our Telescopes Couldn't See Pippa Goldschmidt. 35
A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA Amy Harmon. 38
A Life-or-Death Situation Robin Marantz Henig. 53
23 and You Virginia Hughes. 72
Why the Brain Prefers Paper Ferris Jabr. 98
O-Rings Sarah Stewart Johnson. 107
When Animals Mourn Barbara J. King. 115
Where It Begins Barbara Kingsolver. 125
Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death! Maggie Koerth-Baker. 131
The Lost World Elizabeth Kolbert. 135
Awakening Joshua Lang. 167
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future Maryn McKenna. 188
The Return of Measles Seth Mnookin. 199
Ants Go Marching Justin Nobel. 202
TV as Birth Control Fred Pearce. 213
The Madness of the Planets Corey S. Powell. 222
Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene Roy Scranton. 231
Under Water Kate Sheppard. 238
Twelve Ways of Viewing Alaska's Wild, White Sheep Bill Sherwonit. 251
The Separating Sickness Rebecca Solnit. 266
Trapline David Treuer. 277
The Rebirth of Gorongosa E. O. Wilson. 291
Bringing Them Back to Life Carl Zimmer. 296
Contributors' Notes 309
Other Notable Science and Nature Writing of 2013 315