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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
August 30, 2004
Category: Evolution
While doing some research on human evolution, I stumbled across the web site for a wonderful meeting that was held in March at San Diego to celebrate the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome. You can watch the lectures here. By...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2004
Category: Evolution
Is Intelligent Design the same thing as creationism? The people who back Intelligent Design have spilled an awful lot of ink saying they're different. Even self-proclaimed creationists have tried to claim a difference. Somehow, both of these camps think that...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 5:47 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2004
Category: Evolution
If you took a census of life on Earth, you'd probably find that the majority of life forms looked like this. It's a virus known as a bacteriophage, which lives exclusively in bacteria. There are about 10 million phages in...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:11 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2004
Category: Evolution
Spiteful bacteria. Two words you probably haven't heard together. Then again, you probably haven't heard of altruistic bacteria either, but both sorts of microbes are out there--and in many cases in you. Bacteria lead marvelously complicated social lives. As a...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2004
Category: Evolution
Marriage, we're told by the president and a lot of other people, can only be between one man and one woman. Anything else would go against thousands of years of tradition and nature itself. If the president's DNA could...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 5:28 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2004
Category: General
After a couple months of merciless story deadlines, hard disk crashes, and strange viruses that you only find out about once you have kids, the Loom is creaking back to life. Expect several postings this week. For now, let me...
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