Chad is complaining that The Best American Science Writing 2008 is too focused on biomedical science. He finds it especially lame that there's no physics when this was the year of the LHC. Here's what I found in the contents.... Amy Harmon, Facing Life with a Lethal Gene Richard Preston, An Error in the Code Thomas Goetz, 23anMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics Carl Zimmer, Evolved for Cancer Tara Parker-Pope, How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002 Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey, and Janet Roberts, Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry's Role Daniel Carlat, Dr. Drug Rep Tina Rosenberg, When Is a Pain Doctor a Drug Pusher Jerome Groopman, What's Normal Sally Satel, Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants Oliver Sacks, The Abyss Ben McGrath, Muscle Memory Margaret Talbot, Duped Stephen S. Hall, The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis Al Gore, Moving Beyond Kyoto Jim Yardley, Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future Is Drying Up Joseph Kahn, In China, a Lake's Champion Imperils Himself John Seabrook, Sowing for Apocalypse I see only one physical science pure play in the list. Looks like Chad has a point.
Best American Science Writing, no physics?
Explore the Best American Science Writing 2008, where biomedical focus dominates and the Large Hadron Collider is surprisingly absent.
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