The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2016Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten, notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. But at the end of the day, were all writers . . . Were here to play for the folks. The writers in this anthology brought us the years highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prizewinning essay on the earthquake that could decimate

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