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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 11, 2006
Category: Evolution
Tomorrow I'll be on the radio show Science and Society at 4:20 PM EST. It's my second time on the show. Last time around we talked about the past six million years of hominid evolution (podcast here). This time we're...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2006
Category: The Parasite Files
At the Loom we believe that the path to wisdom runs through the Land of Gross. We do not show you pictures of worms crawling out of frog noses merely to ruin your lunch. We do not urge you to...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 3:47 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
On Thursday I wrote about a new paper reporting the reconstruction of a 450-million year old hormone receptor, and experiments indicating how it evolved into two receptors found in living vertebrates such as ourselves. On Friday I took a look...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:10 AM • 35 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
April 7, 2006
Category: Evolution
Yesterday I blogged about a new study in which scientists reconstructed 450 million year old proteins in order to trace the evolution of some receptors for hormones. The paper itself does not comment on the implications these results have for...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:39 AM • 16 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
April 6, 2006
Category: Evolution
Over the last few years, scientists have figured out how to recreate biological molecules that were last seen on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Until now, scientists have reconstructed ancient proteins to gather clues about life was like...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:57 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Mark Siddall, the leech hunter, is on another quest. He's posting updated from his journeys through Australia in search of new leeches. Read them at Blood Lust II....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General
My blog had some serious troubles while I was away for a few days, but I should have everything up and running smoothly today, including comments (aside from those concerining poker and drugs)....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2006
Category: Evolution
Tiktaalik: music to my ears. Tiktaalik is the lilting name of a newly discovered fossil fish with fingers. It lived 380 million years ago in the northern reaches of Canada, back when the northern reaches of Canada were tropical coastal...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:00 PM • 10 Comments • 4 TrackBacks
