A review by cosmith2015
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 by Sy Montgomery, Jaime Green

4.0

A sold collection of science writing published in the 2018/2019. I enjoyed quite a few of the essays, but my favorites were probably the last three that discuss medicine & health. A good chunk of the collection focuses on the current ecological/climatic crises we are in and that is something I already think about in my day to day life. I had to put this anthology down for several weeks because every time I read it, I would cry thinking about all of the terrible things happening in the world.

The most unusual essay was "why does the paper jam persist" and was an enjoyable read (apparently what type of tree the paper comes from matters).

Ironically, one of the essays was about the next pandemic.. and this anthology was published in October 2019, one month before the first confirmed case of SARS-cov-2. Fun.