Getting back home from a Thanksgiving journey full of turkey and queasy toddlers on airplanes, I just noticed that my visit-counter has rolled past the 500,000 mark. I never would have dreamed of such figures when I started this blog, and I just want to take a second to thank everyone who has ever clicked their way to the Loom.
About The Loom
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Bank: An Introduction To Evolution. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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Books by Carl Zimmer
The Tangled Bank is the best written and best illustrated introduction to evolution of the Darwin centennial decade, and also the most conversant with ongoing research.--E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
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"Superb...quietly revolutionary"--Boston Globe
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"Fascinating...thrilling... Zimmer has produced a top-notch work of popular science."--Los Angeles Times
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"As thorough as it is graceful...This is as fine a book as one will find on the subject."--Scientific American
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"A book capable of changing how we see the world."--The Los Angeles Times
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"A fascinating story, which Zimmer unfolds as a tale of high-stakes scientific sleuthing."--Booklist
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November 29th, 2005 at 11:56 am
No, thank YOU!
November 30th, 2005 at 12:09 am
Well, sometimes the cream rises to the top.
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November 30th, 2005 at 7:57 am
Congratulations – it is a great pleasure to read about amazing stuff that has a good chance of actually being true. It seems that blogs have a real journalistic role to play other than bloviation – long and medium term following of stories and links to stories of continuing interest with specialized commentary – like your hobbit posts. Great blog.
December 5th, 2005 at 9:15 am
I don’t know if you have something like Awstats, or just a hitmeter. It is noteworthy that your old articles are getting read. I had a visit today brought by a trackback to my post about this article of yours, as I have about once a month since July of 2004.
December 6th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
I love reading your blog so much I had linked it onto my own. Keep blogging!