The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 edited by Mary Roach. **** Came for Mary Roach, stayed for Olivers Sacks (Face-Blind), Deborah Blum (The Chemist's War) and Burkhad Bilger (Nature's Spoils about Sandor Katz). " Live cultures have been part of his healing, he said. They may even help prevent diseases like cancer. But that doesn’t mean that kombucha will cure your diabetes. It doesn’t mean that sauerkraut cured my AIDS.” - Sandor Katz. (from Nature's Spoils by Burkhad Bilger) "It was an odd little chemical, the laboratory equivalent of a jazz musician’s riff. “It was pure chemist’s joy,” Chen said. “Homemade, random, and clearly made for no particular purpose." (From The Treatment by Malcolm Gladwell") #sabinareads #fakebookcovers #bookshelf #sciencewriting #maryroach #bookcovers https://www.instagram.com/p/CAQIPRdBKDi/?igshid=10gcnt5th0g4k
