…you can steer away from this biology-based blog and towards the newest addition to the Discover blog stable: Cosmic Variance. I’m a long-time fan of this cabal of highly literate physicists, and I welcome them here.
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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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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 13th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Thanks, Carl! Happy to be part of something good.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I used to read CV all of the time until I posted notes that criticized BB theory and asked troubling questions about his cosmology. Sean deleted my posts without comment.
So, him
November 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I used to read CV all of the time until I posted notes that criticized BB theory and asked troubling questions about his cosmology. Sean deleted my posts without comment.
So, [plonk] him
November 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hear hear! My two very favorite blogs.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Some people are less patient with crackpots than others.
I’m sure he’ll be heartbroken that you’re going to ignore him.
Oh, wait. You already were ignoring him, and everything else about the science of cosmology.