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Carl Zimmer is a science writer. His articles appear in the New York Times and many magazines. He is also the author of six books about science. Send messages to blog/ at/ carlzimmer/ dot/ com
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"...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters, heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."
--Moby Dick
September 28, 2003
Category: Evolution
Over the past couple weeks an unplanned experiment has taken place that shows what sort of science makes it into the popular consciousness and what doesn't. In the past couple weeks we've had three pieces of research on the same...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:56 PM • 0 Comments •
September 27, 2003
Category: Brains
I wrote an article for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine about the grey zone between coma and consciousness. Stories like this one are always hard, because there are so many crucial dimensions to the subject and so little room...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:57 PM • 0 Comments •
September 26, 2003
Category: General
I write about science, and in a recent overhaul of my web site, I decided it was a good time to add a blog. I'll be posting thoughts about new research in the fields that I can't get enough of--the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:04 PM • 0 Comments •
