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--Moby Dick
April 30, 2008
Category: Evolution
In my last post I wrote about how scientists are learning about the origin of animals by studying their genomes. One of the surprising findings of the latest research is that a group of animals called comb jellies (ctenophores) belong...
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April 28, 2008
Category: Evolution
Today in the Boston Globe, I write about how scientists are revising their understanding of the evolution of animals, thanks to more DNA and more weird animals. My favorite quote comes from biologist Mark Pallen, who says that the human...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
I recorded a video for my Facebook page about the Microcosm book tour, which I've cloned below. Still fine-tuning my video interfaces...how does YouTube embed, compared to blip.tv?...
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April 21, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
With two weeks to go till Microcosm's publication date, I'm happy to direct your attention to an adapted excerpt that's running in tomorrow's New York Times. In this passage, I discuss what I like to call E. coli's fingerprints....
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April 19, 2008
Category: Evolution
Click here to watch it on blip.tv (you can even watch in full screen, if you dare...)...
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Category: Evolution
NOTE: I'VE SET UP A FLASH VERSION OF THIS TALK HERE. DON'T BOTHER TRYING TO DOWNLOAD THE QUICKTIME VERSION I DESCRIBED IN THIS POST. Recently I gave the Discovery Lecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, in which I talked...
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Category: Microcosm: The Book
In my new Dissection column over at Wired, I take a look at a remarkable new experiment on E. coli. Scientists randomly rewired the network of genes that control much of the microbe's activity and found that it generally just...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:09 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Three weeks away from the publication of Microcosm, and another kind review has come out, this time from Library Journal: To display a broad swath of the people, scientific processes, and discoveries involved in biology, science writer Zimmer (Soul Made...
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April 14, 2008
Category: Upcoming Talks
I'm heading to Colorado to give a talk at the University of Denver tomorrow. The subject of the talk is my book Soul Made Flesh, about the birth of neurology in the 1600s (see PZ Myer's kind review here). I'll...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 7:38 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2008
Category: Evolution
Radiolab is a show about science that briliantly uses radio's greatest strength--sound--to bring stories to life in ways we print goons can only dream about. I wrote a story about how animals sleep. The Radiolab folks played the sound of...
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