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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
January 31, 2007
Category: Evolution
Speaking of hobbits, the paperback edition of my human evolution book is just about to come out, and you can order it now on Amazon. And if you prefer the resounding thwack of hard covers, the hardback edition is still...
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January 29, 2007
Category: Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
Could 2007 see some new hobbits? I certainly hope so....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:38 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2007
Category: Global Warming
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to release its newest edition of its report on global warming. In this AP report, one of the scientists who co-authored part of the IPCC study promises that it will contain much...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:23 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2007
Category: Evolution
Mark Twain once discovered to his horror that his story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" had been hideously translated into French. He went so far as to publish the original story, the translation, and his own retranslation of the...
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January 16, 2007
Category: General
Over at Blog around the Clock, Bora has the details on the new science blog anthology book he has put together and which is now for sale. (My posts on eye evolution (1, 2) are included.) Bora apparently got the...
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January 10, 2007
Category: Evolution
Cancer, many biologists aruge argue, is an evolutionary disease. It is a burden of being multicellular, and a threat against which natural selection has only managed mediocre defenses. Making matters worse, cancer cells can borrow highly evolved genes for their...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:26 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2007
Category: Microcosm: The Book
On the last day of December, I turned in the final draft of my book about E. coli and the meaning of life. This is the sixth time around for me, and I'm getting familiar now with the havoc the...
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