The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.

Called “[a] richly imagined saga of passion

Polly is working her magic with nuts and seeds

Friendship and Teamwork: Stick Dog

and discover the gossamer threads that connect us all

but armed with terrific bone structure and a few erotic tricks picked up in China

is suffering from Alzheimer’s

the divine

He also read voraciously—he would check out books from the library and carry them home

when his job takes him around the globe

a “can’t-put-down” read

all does not go as planned as he finds himself caught between the world’s largest carbon emitter and the world’s richest man

curmudgeon and resident of Boston