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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition
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--Moby Dick
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Science writer Peter Dizikes reviews my book Microcosm for the New York Times. It's great to see that he gets it--i.e., he understands what I'm trying to do with E. coli in the book. I actually appreciate that more than...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:22 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
The strange thing about E. coli, as I explain in my book Microcosm, is that it has played a central part not just in the modern science of life, but in the political conflicts over life. It may come as...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:05 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
The British edition of Microcosm is coming out on July 3 (Brits can pre-order here, and here's a link for Americans). In conjunction with its publication, the Telegraph asked me to explain why I love E. coli so. Here's why....
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Category: Microcosm: The Book
It's nice to get book reviews in both the popular press and academic journals. I hope everyone will read my books, but I also hope that scientists will consider them good science. And, speaking of Science, the journal of said...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 12:02 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Hey Angelenos! I hope you can come out to catch my next talk about Microcosm. It's part of the Zocalo lecture series. I'll be talking next Wednesday, June 25, at 7:30 pm at the Skirball Cultural Center. Here are the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:16 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
My recent post about a striking new experiment in evolution (E. coli evolving the ability to eat a new kind of food) is still drawing lots of commenters and links. Very cool! Not so cool are the claims that this...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:55 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
The field of biology has been wildly successful by taking what's called a reductionist approach, i.e., you tackle a small problem in isolation in order to gain insight into larger questions. In his new book, Microcosm: E. coli and the...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 2:19 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Microcosm: The Book
Thursday I'll be heading up the road to talk about Microcosm at one of my favorite bookstores: RJ Julia in Madison CT. The talk is at 7, and it's free. And for once I don't have to fly to a...
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Category: Microcosm: The Book
Imagine that mad scientists defied nature and violated the barriers between species. They injected human DNA into non-human creatures, altering their genomes into chimeras--unnatural fusions of man and beast. The goal of the scientists was to enslave these creatures,...
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Category: Microcosm: The Book
A reader of Microcosm blogs: I am literally only 12 pages in, yet Zimmer has already managed to make me catch my breath, clutch the book to my chest, and feel my eyes get a little moist from the emotional...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 10:22 AM • 1 Comments •
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