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May 31, 2008
Category: General
In case you couldn't make it to my World Science Festival panel this afternoon, check out my conversation with co-panelist/journalist/book author Peter Pringle on bloggingheads....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Upcoming Talks
I'm heading to the New York Botanical Gardens to moderate a World Science Festival panel on crops, biodiversity, seed banks, and the amazing life of the Soviet scientist Nikolai Vavilov. (For some background, see this New Yorker article from last...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:00 AM • •
May 30, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
E. coli is, arguably, the one species that scientists know best. If you type the name "Escherichia coli" into PubMed, the database of the National Library of Medicine, you'll get over a quarter of a million titles of scientific papers....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 3:24 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
I would love to introduce him to a certain resident of his gut. (Hat tip: Tree of Life)...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:44 PM • 4 Comments •
May 29, 2008
Category: Evolution
I have been meaning for some days now to point your attention to my new article in the June issue of Scientific American called, "What Is A Species?" The hard copy is worth tracking down because it's got a lot...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:43 AM • 2 Comments •
May 26, 2008
Category: Upcoming Talks
As I mentioned previously, I'll be moderating a panel at the World Science Festival in New York on Thursday. It will be about art, science, and homeland security. In 2004 artist Steven Kurtz was accused of terrorism when police came...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:05 PM • •
May 21, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Blogs are abuzz with the news that E. coli can solve classic math puzzles like the Burnt Pancake Puzzle. The paper itself is available for free here. Judging from the Frankensteinian anxiety this news seems to be triggering, people must...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 11:27 AM • 4 Comments •
May 19, 2008
Category: Upcoming Talks
I'll be giving three talks in the next couple weeks in New York. First up, my lecture at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn Tuesday. It's possible I'll be able to post the video of the lecture later--I'll let you know....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 3:48 PM • 2 Comments •
May 18, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Had another author told me his publisher was sending me a copy of a book on Escherichia coli, I would have been perhaps quietly unenthusiastic. But best selling science writer Carl Zimmer is a master story teller and superb researcher....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:28 AM • 9 Comments •
May 17, 2008
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Blogging briefly from Chicago. Today's talk at the Field Museum went well--I managed to lure a fair number of people inside from a beautiful spring afternoon to hear me talk about a gut germ. I also had a chance to...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 7:20 PM • 7 Comments •
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