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--Moby Dick
September 29, 2007
Category: Evolution
My talk with John Horgan on bloggingheads.tv is up. I'm sure the fact that the label "weird life" appears directly over my head was an accident (right, John?). Anyway, we had a good talk about parasites, aliens, and how to...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:15 AM • 5 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Science Tattoos
"My tattoo is from an Irving Geis illustration of DNA. I was attracted to his attention to the molecular detail while also drawing in a representational spiral that doesn't ignore the basic beauty of the double helix. This particular...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:09 AM • 8 Comments •
September 27, 2007
Category: Meta
I'm going to be appearing this weekend on the strangely addictive show bloggingheads.tv. If you're not familiar with it, it's a show composed of two talking heads staring out of your screen at you, holding forth for an hour on...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 7:22 PM • •
Category: Evolution
It is a day to write about Giardia, and I am happy to say that I cannot do so from firsthand experience. Friends of mine have suffered infections of Giardia in their gut, but they haven't been terribly forthcoming about...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:00 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Meta
A while back I mentioned I've gotten a Facebook page and a Myspace page. They've been fun to toy around with, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're a harbinger of how we will all trawl for online information in...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:52 AM • 6 Comments •
September 21, 2007
Category: Brains
It's a brave new world for us book authors. Today's case in point: PZ Myers assigned some of his students to ready my book Soul Made Flesh, which chronicles how humanity figured out what the brain is for. Some of...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:00 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Science Tattoos
Mark sent this picture in, with this explanation: I don't quite have a science tattoo, but I have a math tattoo. That's close enough, right? Now, for the explanation. This is a formula called the Y Combinator. It is...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:00 AM • 19 Comments •
September 19, 2007
Category: General
The Scientist recently asked me to name the three best life-science blogs. I just sent them three ones I enjoy and read a lot--I find this sort of ranking to be interesting but fundamentally artificial. (I'd recommend all of the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:22 PM • 1 Comments •
September 18, 2007
Category: General
My first book, At the Water's Edge, was graced by illustrations by the marvelous Carl Buell. He's got a lot of irons in the fire these days, including Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, which publishes...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:01 AM • 5 Comments •
September 17, 2007
Category: General
I just took a survey about blogs about science, and you should too. Here's the description: This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:36 AM • 5 Comments •
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