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February 26, 2008
Category: Evolution
The Encyclopedia of Life, about which I blogged and wrote about in the New York Times, has gone live earlier than previously scheduled. So go check it out. A few people have left comments here, and others are blogging too....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 6:37 PM • 8 Comments •
February 25, 2008
Category: Writing Elsewhere
My latest story for the New York Times is up: it's a sneak peek at the Encyclopedia of Life--a web site that will ultimately contain detailed pages about all 1.8 million known species. Right now it's just a demo site,...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:16 PM • 10 Comments •
February 24, 2008
Category: Writing Elsewhere
The history of science is rife with fateful meetings. The astronomer Tycho Brahe hires a young assistant named Johannes Kepler, who will go on to discover in Brahe's observations the law of planetary motion. A bright but aimless British physicist...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:06 PM • 2 Comments •
February 23, 2008
Category: The Parasite Files
It's fun to write about discoveries, but mysteries are important too. In my latest column for Wired.com, I explore the mysterious death of honeybees, and the trouble scientists are having pinning down a culprit. Honey Bees Give Clues on Virus...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:37 PM • •
February 22, 2008
Category: General
In the comment thread for my post about Microcosm's rave review in Publisher's Weekly, outeast writes, There's been something I've been dying for, and here's as good a place as any to mention it: real coffee-table editions of your books,...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:03 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Science Tattoos
Let's hope the phylogeny of life doesn't get revised drastically anytime soon, for the sake of this woman...More details--and lots of new tattoos over at my Science Tattoo Emporium. (Plus a cool new category cloud for browsing!)...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:27 AM • 2 Comments •
February 18, 2008
Category: Brains
For years, fellow scienceblogger PZ Myers has taught us all well why we ought to adore squid, octopuses, and other cephalopods. But I came to a new degree of appreciation when I traveled up to Woods Hole to spend some...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:29 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science Tattoos
After six months of science tattoo madness, the ink keeps flowing. To keep up with the rising tide, please visit their new home: The Science Tattoo Emporium. (You can also get there via http://sciencetattoo.com ) I have an amazing...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 3:26 PM • 3 Comments •
February 15, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
After a lot of writing and a lot of waiting, the first review of my next book, Microcosm, has just come out. Actually, it's coming out on Monday in Publisher's Weekly, but they apparently couldn't wait, sending out a link...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:38 PM • 9 Comments •
February 13, 2008
Category: Evolution
I guess it's only appropriate that the week of Darwin's birthday is seeing a bunch of new reports about evolutionary transitions. On Monday there was news about how ancient whales with teeth turned into whales with baleen--thanks to the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:51 AM • 15 Comments •
