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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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January 27th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
British Push Bottles Up German Rear
Carl Zimmer has an article entitled Fossil Yields Surprise Kin of Crocodiles in the New York Times:Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History have discovered a fossil in New Mexico that looks like a six-foot-long, two-legged dinosaur along the
January 28th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Could you pass on a message to whoever does the Language Log that they should have comments? It’s a wonderful blog that I read, but I always want to respond to things & there’s no way. I couldn’t even find an email of who runs the thing. <3
January 28th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
Carl’s original title of this post was “Zimmer Blogs On Zimmer Blogs”.
January 29th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Could you pass on a message to whoever does the Language Log that they should have comments? It’s a wonderful blog that I read, but I always want to respond to things & there’s no way. I couldn’t even find an email of who runs the thing.
Language Log tried having comments (about a year ago or so), but gave up on it a week or two later. I don’t recall the reason, though I think they were annoyed by people filling the comments with not-very-relevant rants.
It is possible to communicate with the authors; in the right-hand sidebar is a section called “Links”, which has the web pages of the contributors. You can usually find their email addresses on their pages (e.g., Mark Liberman, who is the person “running” it, has his email address on his web page).
January 31st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Sigh. Bloglines just got updated, with all of your recent posts repeated. In this post an ad appeared for the New York Times Home Delivery. (URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/TheLoom?a=TvHBnD)
This practice will probably spread until I can’t avoid it, but for now I’m unsubscribing from your RSS feed. If it turns out to be Bloglines doing, I’ll quit them and apologize here…
January 31st, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Sigh. Bloglines just got updated, with all of your recent posts repeated. In this post an ad appeared for the New York Times Home Delivery. (URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/TheLoom?a=TvHBnD)
This practice will probably spread until I can’t avoid it, but for now I’m unsubscribing from your RSS feed. If it turns out to be Bloglines doing, I’ll quit them and apologize here…
February 1st, 2006 at 12:25 am
Yarrow, I think it is “bloglines”, because it’s not happening here and yours is the only post that I show repeated.