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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
April 22, 2004
Category: Evolution
There are only a few places on the surface of Earth where you can find really old rocks--and by old, I mean 3.5 billion years old or older. The rest have gotten sucked down into the planet's interior, cooked, scrambled...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2004
Category: Brains
My book Soul Made Flesh looks at the roots of neuroscience in the 1600s. The first neurologists saw their work as a religious mission; they recognized that it was with the brain that we made moral judgments. In order...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:27 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
John Maynard Smith has died. While many people know who Stephen Jay Gould was or Richard Dawkins is, I’d bet few would be able to identify Maynard Smith. That’s a shame, because he played a key role in building the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:25 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General
No, I didn’t get hit by a car. Instead, I got hit by your typical crush of deadlines, traveling, and a bout of laryngitis. But tranquility is returning, and I’m firing up the blogotron again....
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April 4, 2004
Category: Brains
This week I am in England to give some talks about Soul Made Flesh, which has just been published here. In addition to talking on the BBC, I'll be talking at Blackwell's in Bristol on Tuesday, and at the Museum...
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