Just a technical note, with shades of exasperation: After my web site got hacked earlier a couple months back, I changed ISP’s and spent a lot of time bringing it up to date. Now I’ve discovered that it’s not working again, because of some mysterious error. I’m getting help with it, but it may take a few days for everything to get back in place.
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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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August 24th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Bummer. Hope you get it back!
August 24th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Carl Zimmer — Think of it as variation with un-natural selection.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Dear Carl,
after reading your recent essay for Science, I have realized that two our papers that are now freely accessible via the web page of Biology Direct (Editors-in-Chief: Eugene V Koonin, Laura F Landweber, and David J Lipman) might be of some interest for you:
http://www.biology-direct.com/content/4/1/26
(On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous
edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of
life on Earth)
http://www.biology-direct.com/content/4/1/27
(On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis
on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on
Earth)
With best regards
Armen Mulkidjanian
University of Osnabrueck,
Germany
August 26th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Carl,
I absoluotly….. tell u what, I’ll start again.
I absolutely hope ur site gets back up!
Claire