Reading "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011." Really outstanding. 80% through this anthology and all but one essay is very good. The one stand-out as far as not being good -- and it really is a stand-out, as most entries are so very good -- is full of new age fuzzy-speak, but worse, repetitive. It comes to its few insights and conclusions and then finds different ways to rephrase them to fill out its increasingly tedious space. But that's a lot of complaining about very little -- a short essay wedged into a bunch of longer and always good, often outstanding essays.
Also, Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. Great read. Full of surprises, from tactics of the ancients to the horrors of Japan's Unit 731 to modern day. Enlightening and disturbing.
Also, Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. Great read. Full of surprises, from tactics of the ancients to the horrors of Japan's Unit 731 to modern day. Enlightening and disturbing.