From the new issue: "It is a powerful account of the dynamic, complicated and social world we share with this ordinary yet remarkable bug. Evolution and genetics glitter among the pages, as do the lives and experiments of the scientists who have studied them. Microcosm is exciting, original and wholly persuasive of the beauty and utility of looking at the largest of issues from the smallest perspectives."
More like this
When we look at a the data for a population+ often the first thing we do
is look at the mean. But even if we know that the distribution
I love this question:
Why is it warmer in the summer than in the winter (for the Northern hemisphere)?
Go ahead and ask your friends. I suppose they will give one of the following likely answers:
Technorati Tags: ddftw, bozos,
markcc-screwups
Last week we looked at the organ systems involved in regulation and control of body functions: the nervous, sensory, endocrine and circadian systems. This week, we will cover the organ systems that are regulated and controlled.
I started reading Microcosm in the Barnes-and-Borders-A-Million café, and I was pleasantly startled to see one of my own research topics — network motifs — make an entrance. It's been a great book so far! :-)
so - when is it coming out in audio?
Hmmm, trackbacks don't seem to be working. Anyway, I wanted to mention that I "hate" you for this book so much I had to blog it....