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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 29, 2005
Category: General
Just a technical note: Corante has been upgrading to a new version of Movable Type, and they're still working out a few glitches. Some readers have already reported trouble posting comments. You can vent any other sort of frustration in...
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September 25, 2005
Category: Evolution
This Wednesday, I'll be coming to Swarthmore College to give a public lecture about human evolution. I had originally planned to focus on some of the cutting-edge discoveries I include in my upcoming book, from brain genes to enigmatic hobbits....
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September 22, 2005
Category: General
The National Academy of Sciences just announced its 2005 Communications Awards. Gareth Cook, Pulitzer prizewinner from the Boston Globe, won the Newspaper/Magazine/Internet category for his must-read series of articles on stem cells. I was named one of two finalists, for...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
My brother Ben is now a respectable consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary, but when he was a kid, he was a puzzle freak, pure and simple. In fourth grade he'd spend hours paging through a big unabridged Webster's, looking...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:42 AM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2005
Category: Evolution
Last year I was contacted by a team of scientists and museum exhibit designers to help put together a show about evolution. The result is Exploring Evolution, which is now opening at a string of state science museums in the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2005
A lot of people think of viruses and bacteria in our bodies as nothing more than pests. It's certainly true that a lot of them do an excellent job of making us ill. But some viruses and bacteria merged with...
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September 14, 2005
Category: Evolution
"March of the Penguins," the conservative film critic and radio host Michael Medved said in an interview, is "the motion picture this summer that most passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing." --from an article describing how...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:41 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2005
Category: Evolution
(Warning: this post contains some journalistic/blogging inside-baseball material.) Back in the dark ages (otherwise known as the 1990s), writing about science felt a bit like putting messages in a bottle. I'd write an article, a few weeks or months later...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:01 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2005
Category: Evolution
I'm back from a computer-free vacation, and of course I have returned to mountains of emails and a long chain of fascinating new links. In place of any original thoughts of my own, let me just point you to a...
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