Carl Zimmer's Books
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Soul Made FleshIn this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...Read More -
Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue)In this re-issued paperback edition with a new epilogue, Carl Zimmer reveals the power, danger, and beauty of parasites in “a book capable of...Read More
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Parasite RexIMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE parasites are masters of...Read More
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At the Water's EdgeEverybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's...Read More
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EurekAlert!, April 18, 2013
...life. "Relentless Evolution is a masterful synthesis of scientific fields that are expanding at astonishing speed," said Carl Zimmer, an award-winning science writer and book author. "Surveying research as varied as lab experiments on bacteria to...
AllVoices, April 2, 2013
...to understand how synthetic biology might change the world?...Over at science e-book review site Download the Universe, Carl Zimmer has an interesting review of a new paper from synthetic biologist Drew Endy , as well as a comic book that Endy created a...
Miami Herald, February 13, 2013
...foundations pay you $20,000 for a single speech,? tweeted Tom Gara of the Wall Street Journal. Carl Zimmer, a science writer, tweeted that Lehrer was paid $20,000 ?about how not to do journalism. And he took it. What a business.?In his speech, posted on...
Montana Kaimin Online, February 13, 2013
...the help of one professor at the University of Montana. Evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen, together with co-author Carl Zimmer, sought to change how students read their homework when helping create an iPad app for his new textbook, “Evolution:...
Wired News, January 16, 2013
...you to the best reading and tweeting about the bugs out to kill us. Other Pandemic series highlights included Carl Zimmer’s , Tara Smith’s , and our own Maryn McKenna’s . My piece below, however, titled “Pandemic Porn,” was about finding...
Yahoo! News, January 9, 2013
...science news. Join the club. « Previous Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson Must-Follow Twitter Accounts of 2013 Next » Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer A self-described "champion of underappreciated life-forms," Carl Zimmer tends to tackle stories about...
Smithsonian Magazine, December 13, 2012
...Read Natalie Angier’s article about The Social Conquest of Earth and an interview with Wilson by writer Carl Zimmer. Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone by Eric Klinenberg According to the latest census, more...
GenomeWeb, January 18, 2013
...Over at Wired, Carl Zimmer takes at how the US National Institutes of Health used next-gen sequencing to track a lethal outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae at the NIH Clinical Center. Zimmer provides a detailed...
Yahoo Philippines News, January 17, 2013
...Think the flu is bad? Try norovirus. One leading expert calls it “the Ferrari of the virus world” because it’s one of the most infectious viruses known to man, causing nine out of 10 episodes of viral stomach outbreaks worldwide. Its signatures...
MCN, January 17, 2013
...decisions. It did go that way sometimes, but sometimes those higher functioning parts started responding very early, writes Carl Zimmer in Discover magazine. Those higher parts, that handle self-awareness and empathy, might be instructing the eyes on...
Jezebel, January 17, 2013
...decisions. It did go that way sometimes, but sometimes those higher functioning parts started responding very early, writes Carl Zimmer in Discover magazine. Those higher parts, that handle self-awareness and empathy, might be instructing the eyes on...
Wired News, January 16, 2013
...you to the best reading and tweeting about the bugs out to kill us. Other Pandemic series highlights included Carl Zimmer’s , Tara Smith’s , and our own Maryn McKenna’s . My piece below, however, titled “Pandemic Porn,” was about finding...
AlterNet.org, January 16, 2013
...It did go that way sometimes, but sometimes those higher functioning parts started responding very early, writes Carl Zimmer in Discover magazine . Those higher parts, that handle self-awareness and empathy, might be instructing the eyes on who is...
NPR, January 11, 2013
...billion years ago when the sun was so much dimmer? Why didn't the oceans freeze? Radiolab regular Carl Zimmer weighed in on that one on his blog The Loom. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of...
