The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 edited by Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin, $13, ISBN 0618178929 Reviewed by Roy Herbert
YOU need to have an interest in a whole range of scientific studies to take all this in. Subjects as widely separated as communication between elephants (amazing), Greenland ice (revelatory) and false memories (tampering with autobiography) impose serious choices. And, of course, even though they are all worth reading, the pieces do vary in style and quality. Included is the essay on attitudes to the 9-11 attacks from Skeptical Inquirer that some found objectionable.
Richard Dawkins鈥檚 introduction is an impressive and inspiring definition of science as the only way to the truth about reality and is, for once, essential to read first.
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