Good news–I’ve just won the National Academies 2007 Communication Award. Each year the prize is given out jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Engineering, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine in three categories. The category I entered was writing for newspapers, magazines or the Internet. I decided to submit stuff I’ve written for newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Here are the stories I submitted (with links to my blog posts about them):
“A Fin Is A Limb Is A Wing.” National Geographic, November 2006. An article on the evolution of complex features.
“His Subject: Highly Evolved and Exquisitely Thirsty.” The New York Times 2/7/06. A profile of Mark Siddall, leech hunter.
“Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy.” The New York Times, 3/14/06. Harvard biologist David Haig’s influential theory about how evolutionary conflicts shape the development of children.
“This Can’t Be Love.” The New York Times, 9/5/06. The enduring mystery of sexual cannibalism.
“Devious Butterflies, Full-Throated Frogs, and Other Liars,” The New York Times, 12/26/06. The evolution of deception in animals.
“The Origin of the Ridiculous” The Loom, 8/15/06. How a new fossil illuminates the evolution of whales.
Congratulations to the other winners and finalists–all of whom you can read about on the award web site. [link fixed]
October 1st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Woot! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Congrats! But I think your last link is wrong…
October 1st, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Excellent work, Mr. Zimmer. That’s quite an accomplishment. Your work is superb.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:10 pm
It is an honor to share this webspace with you.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Well deserved. Congratulations!
October 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pm
The link to allow me to read about the other winners is broken. Accident??
Sigh … this adds a few to the list of Zimmer writings that I’ll just have to find time to read. Congratulations!
October 1st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Can we clone you?
October 1st, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Congratulations!
October 1st, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Congrats. It couldn’t have gone to a better writer.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Wow! From the National Academies, no less! What a tremendous and well-deserved honor! I had the pleasure of sharing the National Geographic article with my daughter last year – can’t wait to dig into the ones I missed!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 am
Congrats Carl!
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 am
Congratulations. I support the decision, and wish you well in your science communication career. I for one keep track of your wisdom, or explanations and learn much.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 am
Carl, you have stated that you are not a scientist, but a science writer, more than once. However, you discuss your subjects with great insight and understanding of the underlying science as if you were a scientist. You deserved the award. If only the world had more real science writers such as yourself.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Congrats. You deserve it.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Congratulations Carl.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Congratulations! Hope I will meet you at a book show one day and get your autograph! I enjoy reading your books.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:53 am
Congratulations. It was stumbling onto your blog a year or two back which eventually led me to the whole Scienceblogs world. But you’re still the top!
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:14 am
Wow!!! Congrats on this new achievement!
October 7th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Bravo! And a “well done!” to the voters …