The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021

and nature writing has landed, and where it could go,” Ed Yong writes in his introduction. “They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum… From an in-depth look at the moment of the virus’s outbreak, to a harrowing personal account of lingering Covid symptoms, to a thoughtful analysis on how the pandemic will impact the environment, these essays, as Yong says, “synthesize, evaluate, dig, unveil, and challenge,” imbuing a pivotal moment in history with lucidity and elegance.
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• twitter .com/edyong209  (‘  Ed Yong : Science writer at The Atlantic. Many words; some awards. Author of I Contain Multitudes (2016).  https://t.co/znswoodKfp , https://t.co/SryclItRYG  , 📚Visit Amazon’s Ed Yong Page   via  @lisa_iannattone  ‘)
• twitter .com/tmprowell/status/1489312595634896897 (‘  Dr. Tatiana Prowell : “This month, the #COVID19, heart attack & stroke patients that the hospital would typically transfer to larger facilities were boarded in the ER for days. Staff members made about 200 phone calls to get beds for patients—at times up to 400 miles away.” , https://t.co/dtu8y2CId2, via  @edyong209 ‘)
• twitter .com/edyong209/status/1489281413778219014 (‘  “We’re asking heroic things of people to pave over the problems that the health-care system faces.”, https://t.co/dEKflBJBwR ‘)
• twitter .com/tmprowell/status/1489312595634896897 (‘  Gregg Gonsalves : So, as we’re being urged to surrender to the “@urgencyofnormal” from all sides of the political spectrum who gets left behind? My latest for @thenation, https://t.co/5N5X41lw9Y via  @edyong209,  @lisa_iannattone  ‘)
• twitter .com/DFisman/status/1489246001974108160  (‘  Dr. David Fisman :  I think it’s important to care about disease and death in people who aren’t your first degree family members. I had taken that as a given but increasingly realize it’s not a view that’s held universally in Canada. via @lisa_iannattone    ‘)
• marchehua .com/product/black-poster-frame-nilsen (‘ @nathanlawkc, 🇹🇭@TSererak , #HongKong activist. Youngest lawmaker in HK history. Now Exiled in London. , 📘Freedom : How We Lose It and How We Fight Back, 📗Unfree-Speech by Joshua Wong, 📕The World According to China, 🇲🇲@cvdom2021    ‘)