Comments on: Review: Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, edited by Mary Roach https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/ before I read the middle Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Christy https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-631 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:24:57 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-631 I love reviews of the essay anthologies that go into each one of the essays. I love all your comments on them. I read most of the essay about jellyfish via your link. Some of the anecdotes are terrifying, partly b/c I have found jellyfish terrifying since I was a kid and saw a bunch of them in Boston harbor.

Also, that is great that the Neko Case song is really about killer animals. I have wondered if it had another meaning and now I know.

]]> By: Eva https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-630 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:55:33 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-630 >> (And don’t even get David Freedman started on economists’ studies, because those guys are m.f. ridiculous)

HAHAHAHA Having just finished a book by a m.f. ridiculous economist (Winner Take All HMPH), I immediately ran off to see if Freedman has written any books. And now I totally have Wrong, his book debunking experts, on hold. Of the many, many things in this world that infuriate me, neoliberal economists and the jacked up shit they’ve managed to pass as US and world economic policy is very close to the top of my list. It’s enough to turn anyone Marxist.

]]> By: Katy https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-629 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:34:20 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-629 I ended up teaching a whole bunch of essays from this book last semester, and my students just loved it. I had reservations about using an anthology, and they disappeared when I saw how good the selections were.

I liked the opportunivore one in part because it starts in Asheville, NC, and a few years ago I visited some friends there; they were quite poor and one of them was going to school full time, but they ate very well because they dumpster dived behind the Amazing Savings, just like the people in the essay. Before that I thought of dumpster diving as kind of a hipster affectation, but it really saved them a lot of money and probably kept them much healthier than they would have been otherwise.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-628 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:08:32 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-628 In reply to Care.

YOU are the coolest, Care.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-627 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:05:42 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-627 In reply to zibilee.

Oh yay! I would love to compare notes with you! Don’t forget to review it and/or come back here to talk about it with me when you have read it.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-626 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:05:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-626 In reply to Julia.

Yes! I did and I liked it! It made me quite sad as well, though. When the guy cried and said he wouldn’t recognize his girlfriend — am I remembering that right? It was very sad.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-625 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:04:27 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-625 In reply to NWK (@MumsyNancy).

Aw, sorry. But I have fixed it for you now.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-624 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:04:01 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-624 In reply to Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness).

Kim — He is wonderful! I haven’t ever tried the Best American Essays collection, but I’m going to start paying more attention to them now.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-623 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:03:32 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-623 In reply to Lu.

You’re welcome. I’m glad you liked it. And it is so important. My family has had some rough experiences with hospitals and relatives, so we’ve had a dozen versions of the end-of-life-wishes talk. But I think it is smart to have that be an open conversation.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2013/02/10/review-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2011-edited-by-mary-roach/#comment-622 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:02:35 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=4120#comment-622 In reply to Ana @ things mean a lot.

I want to I do I want to read Ben Goldacre! He has that new book about Big Pharma that sounds really wonderful too. I got Bad Science out of the library a while ago, but I also checked out a lot of other books and I read some of them first and then Bad Science was due — look, I have no good excuse. I know I would like Ben Goldacre and I am going to get on that.

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