The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

Very wonderful, as usual. Gosh, I love this series. Also as usual: some essays were better than others. I reeeeally didn't care for the “my manly husband killed a bear” essay, which seemed very thin on both the science AND nature. Some of the best essays included a look at hospice care (Atul Gawande), a profile of a medical researcher exposing publication bias and data mining, and a profile of Sandor Katz and other alternative-food hippies (I find Katz endlessly fascinating and inspiring!). The physics essays - including one by Stephen Hawking - were suitably mind-bending.