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Category: General
I'm in Cambridge at the MIT/Harvard Brain Boot Camp this week, so blogging will be light for a few days....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:28 PM • 3 Comments •
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March 24, 2004
The Panda's Thumb
Category: Evolution
A great blog is born: The Panda's Thumb is a multi-authored blog that blasts a firehose of reason at distortions of evolution....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:08 PM • •
Chew On This
Category: Evolution
Our ancestors branched off from those of chimpanzees some six million years ago. Since then, our lineage became human--and distinctly unlike other apes. Figuring out how that difference evolved is one of the grand challenges of biology. Until now, scientists...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:03 PM • 10 Comments •
Getting Closer to the Brain Implant
Category: Brains
In February I wrote an article in Popular Science about a project to implant electrodes in a monkey's brain allowing the monkey to control a robot arm with its mind. The goal of this work is to let paralyzed people...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:14 AM • 7 Comments •
March 23, 2004
Soul of the South
Category: Brains
Attention Virginian readers of the Loom: I'll be heading to warmer climes later this week to speak in Charlottesville at the Virginia Festival of the Book. On Thursday at 4 I'll be speaking on a panel about science and society....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:51 PM • •
March 22, 2004
The Reviews
Category: Brains
I've posted a new batch of reviews for Soul Made Flesh on my web site. The newest is from Ross King, the author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling. His review in yesterday's Los Angeles Times is...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:14 AM • •
The Dog That Didn't Bark In the Night
Category: Evolution
Last week I wrote about an important new study showing that three very different groups of species--plants, butterflies, and birds--have all been declining at the same alarming rate for over 40 years in Great Britain. The authors concluded that if...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:05 AM • 3 Comments •
March 18, 2004
Angels and Extinctions
Category: Evolution
When I ask scientists what's the biggest misunderstanding people have about their work, they often talk about how they know what they know. People tend to think that a scientist's job is to gather every single datum about something in...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:52 PM • 7 Comments •
March 17, 2004
Fire Up The Tivo
Category: Brains
Three weeks ago, I gave a talk at Stanford University about my new book Soul Made Flesh. A wonderful crowd turned out and peppered me with excellent questions afterwards, each of which could have become new talks of their own....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 6:10 PM • •
Literature Check
Category: Evolution
In one of the weirdest attempts to pretend that creationism is a real science, a student at Harvard Law School wrote a favorable review in the Harvard Law Review of a book about Intelligent Design. You'd think that this would...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:45 PM • 1 Comments •
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