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CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
CORONAVIRUS DRUG AND TREATMENT TRACKER Remdesivir, made by Gilead Sciences, was the first drug to get emergency authorization from the F.D.A. for use on Covid-19. It stops viruses from replicating by inserting itself into new viral genes. Remdesivir was originally tested as an antiviral against Ebola and Hepatitis C, only to deliver lackluster results. ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from NEW WEAPONS AGAINST CANCER: MILLIONS OF BACTERIA New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill. Scientists have used genetically reprogrammed bacteria to destroy tumors in mice. The innovative method one day may lead to cancer therapies that treat the disease more precisely, without the side effects of conventional drugs. The researchers already are scramblingto develop
HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
CORONAVIRUS DRUG AND TREATMENT TRACKER Remdesivir, made by Gilead Sciences, was the first drug to get emergency authorization from the F.D.A. for use on Covid-19. It stops viruses from replicating by inserting itself into new viral genes. Remdesivir was originally tested as an antiviral against Ebola and Hepatitis C, only to deliver lackluster results. ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from NEW WEAPONS AGAINST CANCER: MILLIONS OF BACTERIA New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill. Scientists have used genetically reprogrammed bacteria to destroy tumors in mice. The innovative method one day may lead to cancer therapies that treat the disease more precisely, without the side effects of conventional drugs. The researchers already are scramblingto develop
HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversityA PLANET OF VIRUSES
Now in its third edition with new illustrations “In A Planet of Viruses, science writer Carl Zimmer accomplishes in a mere 100 pages what other authors struggle to do in 500: He reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence.”—The Washington Post Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in theirsway.
SMITHSONIAN INTIMATE GUIDE TO HUMAN ORIGINS Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins. Charles Darwin knew that what made his theory of evolution so dangerous was what it said about the human race. People had, like all living things, evolved from older species– an African ape, in Darwin’s own opinion. The notion was so scandalous that Darwin left it out altogether from the Origin DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
THE TANGLED BANK: AN INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTION The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution. When it was first published in 2009, The Tangled Bank was the first textbook every written specifically for non-majors college students and became widely adopted in colleges across the United States and other countries. For the second edition, Zimmer has thoroughly updated the book,incorporating
ANCIENT DNA SHOWS HUMANS SETTLED CARIBBEAN IN 2 DISTINCT A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, for example, shows that, on average, about 14 percent of people’s ancestry in Puerto Rico can be traced back to the Taino. In Cuba it is about four percent while in the Dominican Republic it is more like six percent. These results, and others like them based on DNA found in ancient Caribbean skeletons, are providing new insights into the 2 COMPANIES SAY THEIR VACCINES ARE 95% EFFECTIVE. WHAT The front-runners in the vaccine race seem to be working far better than anyone expected: Pfizer and BioNTech announced this week that their vaccine had an efficacy rate of 95 percent.Moderna put the figure for its vaccine at 94.5 percent.In Russia, the makers of the Sputnik vaccine claimed their efficacy rate was over 90 percent. “These are game changers,” said Dr. Gregory Poland, a WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.ABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from PARASITE REX: INSIDE THE BIZARRE WORLD OF NATURE’S MOST Costa Rican researcher Daniel Brooks has discovered dozens of parasites, including flies that lay eggs in deer noses: “snot bots.”. And those are only the creatures from the prologue. Zimmer discusses how the study of parasites began, with 19th-century discoveries about their odd life cycles.FRIENDLY INVADERS
It sounds like the makings of an ecological disaster: an epidemic of invasive species that wipes out the delicate native species in its path. But in a paper published in August in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dov Sax, an ecologist at Brown University, and Steven D. Gaines, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, point out that the invasion hasWHAT IS A SPECIES?
In 1942 he defined a species as a gene pool, calling it a set of populations that can reproduce with one another and that are unable to mate successfully with other populations. The biological species concept, as it is now called, became the textbook standard. THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE SELF Scientific American, November 30, 2005. Link. The most obvious thing about yourself is your self. “You look down at your body and know it’s yours,” says Todd Heatherton, a psychologist at DartmouthUniversity.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.ABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from PARASITE REX: INSIDE THE BIZARRE WORLD OF NATURE’S MOST Costa Rican researcher Daniel Brooks has discovered dozens of parasites, including flies that lay eggs in deer noses: “snot bots.”. And those are only the creatures from the prologue. Zimmer discusses how the study of parasites began, with 19th-century discoveries about their odd life cycles.FRIENDLY INVADERS
It sounds like the makings of an ecological disaster: an epidemic of invasive species that wipes out the delicate native species in its path. But in a paper published in August in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dov Sax, an ecologist at Brown University, and Steven D. Gaines, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, point out that the invasion hasWHAT IS A SPECIES?
In 1942 he defined a species as a gene pool, calling it a set of populations that can reproduce with one another and that are unable to mate successfully with other populations. The biological species concept, as it is now called, became the textbook standard. THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE SELF Scientific American, November 30, 2005. Link. The most obvious thing about yourself is your self. “You look down at your body and know it’s yours,” says Todd Heatherton, a psychologist at DartmouthUniversity.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports of WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.ABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE On July 30, 2003, a team of Spanish and French scientists reversed time. They brought an animal back from extinction, if only to watch it become extinct again. The animal they revived was a kind of wild goat known as a bucardo, or Pyrenean ibex. The bucardo (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) was a large, handsome creature, reaching up to 220 pounds DNA INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS MAY INCREASE RISK OF COVID A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study.. Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show how some clues to modern health stem from PARASITE REX: INSIDE THE BIZARRE WORLD OF NATURE’S MOST Costa Rican researcher Daniel Brooks has discovered dozens of parasites, including flies that lay eggs in deer noses: “snot bots.”. And those are only the creatures from the prologue. Zimmer discusses how the study of parasites began, with 19th-century discoveries about their odd life cycles.FRIENDLY INVADERS
It sounds like the makings of an ecological disaster: an epidemic of invasive species that wipes out the delicate native species in its path. But in a paper published in August in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dov Sax, an ecologist at Brown University, and Steven D. Gaines, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, point out that the invasion hasWHAT IS A SPECIES?
In 1942 he defined a species as a gene pool, calling it a set of populations that can reproduce with one another and that are unable to mate successfully with other populations. The biological species concept, as it is now called, became the textbook standard. THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE SELF Scientific American, November 30, 2005. Link. The most obvious thing about yourself is your self. “You look down at your body and know it’s yours,” says Todd Heatherton, a psychologist at DartmouthUniversity.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports ofABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports ofABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two. PODCASTS | CARL ZIMMER Listen to all eight episodes via Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. In 2017, Carl Zimmer hosted a series of talks about the nature of life before a live audience at Caveat in New York. You can listen to these conversations with eight leading thinkers at the links below. You can also subscribe to all eight episodes on iTunesTALKS | CARL ZIMMER
October 14-17, 2021, Brattleboro, VT: Brattleboro Literary Festival. Details to come. November 2021, Charleston, SC: Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival. Details to come. Check back for updates, or subscribe to Zimmer’s email newsletter for upcoming events. You can also find an archive of past talks CONTACT | CARL ZIMMER Carl Zimmer is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. To book a lecture or speaking engagement, please contact Kim Thornton.. Design by Michelle Lee Nix Built by Thomas Fondano. Author photo byMistina Hanscom
A PLANET OF VIRUSES
Now in its third edition with new illustrations “In A Planet of Viruses, science writer Carl Zimmer accomplishes in a mere 100 pages what other authors struggle to do in 500: He reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence.”—The Washington Post Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in theirsway.
TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding.SOUL MADE FLESH
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. Soul Made Flesh tells the story of a dramatic turning point in history–the discovery of the role and importance of the human brain. The secrets of the brain were uncovered in seventeenth century England, against a DE-EXTINCTIONS AND STRAW MEN In my feature on de-extinction in the April issue of National Geographic, I tried to capture the debate in the scientific community about whether we should try to bring vanished species back to Earth.It’s been gratifying to see a spirited, sustained conversation going on ever since. The prospect of de-extinction raises important issues that have to be grappled with. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports ofABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two.CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man:The Concise Edition. The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-firstcentury
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker. Posted on June 10, 2020 April 16, 2021 by Lori Jia. The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum andSui
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER J&J Vaccine and Blood Clots: The Risks, if Any, Are Very Low. Posted on April 13, 2021 April 16, 2021 by Carl Zimmer. The New York Times, April 13, 2021 (with Denise Grady) Link. On Tuesday morning, U.S. federal health regulators recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine while they investigated six reports ofABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE Welcome to the Virosphere. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. In recent years, scientists have discovered that the world of virus diversity LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. UK edition from Picador coming in August 2021. “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Most people might answer, “At the skull.”. But Clark and Chalmers set out to convince their readers that the mind is not simply the product of the neurons in our brains, locked away behind a wall of bone. Rather, they argued that the mind is something more: a STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. But I can console myself with some recent research on the subject of mind wandering. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Whose Life Would You Save? Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with a 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher. Joshua Greene is a man who spends his days thinking about right and wrong, and how we separate the two. PODCASTS | CARL ZIMMER Listen to all eight episodes via Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. In 2017, Carl Zimmer hosted a series of talks about the nature of life before a live audience at Caveat in New York. You can listen to these conversations with eight leading thinkers at the links below. You can also subscribe to all eight episodes on iTunesTALKS | CARL ZIMMER
October 14-17, 2021, Brattleboro, VT: Brattleboro Literary Festival. Details to come. November 2021, Charleston, SC: Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival. Details to come. Check back for updates, or subscribe to Zimmer’s email newsletter for upcoming events. You can also find an archive of past talks CONTACT | CARL ZIMMER Carl Zimmer is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. To book a lecture or speaking engagement, please contact Kim Thornton.. Design by Michelle Lee Nix Built by Thomas Fondano. Author photo byMistina Hanscom
A PLANET OF VIRUSES
Now in its third edition with new illustrations “In A Planet of Viruses, science writer Carl Zimmer accomplishes in a mere 100 pages what other authors struggle to do in 500: He reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence.”—The Washington Post Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in theirsway.
TO BEGINNING WRITERS One valuable way to learn how to write is to reverse engineer great science writers. If you like John McPhee, plow through Annals of the Former World and look at how he assembles his stories. If you want to be a scientist-writer, check out the best work out there, like thebooks of
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH This is the paradox that Carl Zimmer explores in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. Mr. Zimmer, a New York Times science columnist and author, is careful and well-informed. So when he says that research is overturning things you were taught in biology classes, he’s worth heeding.SOUL MADE FLESH
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. Soul Made Flesh tells the story of a dramatic turning point in history–the discovery of the role and importance of the human brain. The secrets of the brain were uncovered in seventeenth century England, against a DE-EXTINCTIONS AND STRAW MEN In my feature on de-extinction in the April issue of National Geographic, I tried to capture the debate in the scientific community about whether we should try to bring vanished species back to Earth.It’s been gratifying to see a spirited, sustained conversation going on ever since. The prospect of de-extinction raises important issues that have to be grappled with. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-first century science has to say about them. CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum and Sui-Wee Lee) Read the full tracker.ABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER The New York Times, April 23, 2021 (with Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland). Link. The Food and Drug Administration ended its recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and will add a warning to its label to note the potential risk of rare blood clots.. The decision, which clears the way for states to resume vaccinations, came after a panel of advisers to the Centers for WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE The New York Times, March 24, 2020. Link. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2.. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting chapters of intellectual revelation. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Discover, January 14, 2009. Link. Our minds are under attack. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Discover, June 15, 2009. Link. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Discover, April 20, 2004. Link. Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with aCARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is an award-winner New York Times columnist and the author of 13 books about science. His newest book is She Has Her Mother'sLaugh.
BOOKS | CARL ZIMMEREVOLUTION: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAPODCASTSEVOLUTION: MAKING SENSE OF LIFEA PLANET OF VIRUSES The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition introduces a new generation of readers to Charles Darwin’s scientific masterpiece. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history of Darwin’s ideas about humans, and what twenty-first century science has to say about them. CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRACKER The New York Times, June 10, 2021 (with Jonathan Corum and Sui-Wee Lee) Read the full tracker.ABOUT | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive (hardcover, Kindle, or audio.). Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times.His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for theStudy of Evolution.
ARTICLES | CARL ZIMMER The New York Times, April 23, 2021 (with Emily Anthes and Noah Weiland). Link. The Food and Drug Administration ended its recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and will add a warning to its label to note the potential risk of rare blood clots.. The decision, which clears the way for states to resume vaccinations, came after a panel of advisers to the Centers for WELCOME TO THE VIROSPHERE The New York Times, March 24, 2020. Link. In January, Chinese virologists isolated the virus that causes Covid-19. Earlier this month, a team of virologists gave this new virus a new name: SARS-CoV-2.. To do so, they had to move the virus to the head of a very, very long line. LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE “Carl Zimmer shows what a great suspense novel science can be. LIFE’S EDGE is a timely exploration in an age when modern Dr. Frankensteins are hard at work, but Carl’s artful, vivid, irresistible writing transcends the moment in these twisting chapters of intellectual revelation. HOW GOOGLE IS MAKING US SMARTER Discover, January 14, 2009. Link. Our minds are under attack. At least that’s what I keep hearing these days. Thumbing away at our text messages, we are becoming illiterate. STOP PAYING ATTENTION: ZONING OUT IS A CRUCIAL MENTAL Discover, June 15, 2009. Link. I am going to do my best to hold your attention until the very last word of this column. Actually, I know it’s futile. Along the way, your mind will wander off, then return, then drift away again. WHOSE LIFE WOULD YOU SAVE? Discover, April 20, 2004. Link. Dinner with a philosopher is never just dinner, even when it’s at an obscure Indian restaurant on a quiet side street in Princeton with aTALKS | CARL ZIMMER
Carl Zimmer gives public talks in lecture series, at universities, and at conferences. He also appears on podcasts and radio programs such as Radiolab.Visit Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau for more information about speaking requests. PODCASTS | CARL ZIMMER In this episode, I spoke to H. James Cleaves, a professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo and co-author of A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life.Today, the origin of life is a scientific question that researchers around the world are trying to answer. CONTACT | CARL ZIMMER Carl Zimmer is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. To book a lecture or speaking engagement, please contact Kim Thornton.. Design by Michelle Lee Nix Built by Thomas Fondano. Author photo byMistina Hanscom
A PLANET OF VIRUSES
Now in its third edition with new illustrations “In A Planet of Viruses, science writer Carl Zimmer accomplishes in a mere 100 pages what other authors struggle to do in 500: He reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence.”—The Washington Post Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in theirsway.
SEARCHING FOR THE OLDEST PIECES OF EARTH About 4.567 billion years ago, a quivering bead of magma 93 million miles from the Sun cooled down until it grew a skin of rock. Eventually, it would be named Earth. We don’t know a lot about what the planet was like back then, because that primordial crust is almost entirely recycled–eroded away, pushed back down into the molten depths of the planet, or smashed to bits by the huge impacts TO BEGINNING WRITERS To Beginning Writers If you like audio, I have also spoken to audiences about my own experiences in science writing. DE-EXTINCTIONS AND STRAW MEN In my feature on de-extinction in the April issue of National Geographic, I tried to capture the debate in the scientific community about whether we should try to bring vanished species back to Earth.It’s been gratifying to see a spirited, sustained conversation going on ever since. The prospect of de-extinction raises important issues that have to be grappled with.SOUL MADE FLESH
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. Soul Made Flesh tells the story of a dramatic turning point in history–the discovery of the role and importance of the human brain. The secrets of the brain were uncovered in seventeenth century England, against a SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH The Guardian Best Science Book of the Year New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Publisher’s Weekly Ten Best Books of 2018 National Academies Communication Award: Best Book of the Year Science in Society Journalism Award: Best Book of the Year DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1Some reviewers of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh compared it to a sweeping novel. What novel does it remind you of? How does Zimmer use human stories to bring the history of heredity to life? 2What is the most important lesson that you take from She Has Her Mother’s Laugh?Is it a lesson about biology, politics, or culture?Toggle navigation
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CARL ZIMMER IS AN AWARD-WINNING _NEW YORK TIMES_ COLUMNIST AND THE AUTHOR OF 14 BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE. HIS NEWEST BOOK IS _LIFE’S EDGE: THE SEARCH FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE_.
SUBSCRIBE TO “FRIDAY’S ELK,” ZIMMER’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FOR UPDATES ON BOOKS, TALKS AND OTHER NEWS. Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive Zimmer travels the mysterious borderland between the living and the non-living in his latest book, reckoning with a question that still bedevils scientists and philosophers alike: what is life? _Publisher’s Weekly_ calls _Life’s Edge_ “a pop science tour deforce.”
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh An exploration of the most intimate mystery of all: how our ancestors help make us who we are. _She Has Her Mother’s Laugh_ traces the history of heredity as a scientific question and a cultural touchstone. Chosen as a Notable Book of the Yearby
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