Birds do it, bees do it, even educated viruses do it. And for some reason my stack of interesting scientific papers is particularly heavy at the moment with research on the evolution of sex. So let’s not be shy. All this week, I will blog about sex.
[Image: mating sand wasps, Alex Wild]
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"Celebrated curiosity monger"
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 twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
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July 26th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
July 26th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
A cell is a great place for having sex (if you’re a virus) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12967275
July 26th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
[...] It’s sex week at the Loom. [...]
July 26th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Carl Zimmer:
“A cell is a great place for having sex (if you’re a virus)”…
…or if you’re an inmate! BA ZING
July 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
What’s that old line about Nature? The best way to get published is to find the biggest of something, the smallest of something or something that f***s funny.
July 26th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
[...] It’s sex week on The Loom. Carl Zimmer has a stack of papers on the evolution of sex that need blogging, so he will be covering the topic all week long. Now, if you haven’t read any of his stuff on sex, you may want to begin by delving into the world of kinky duck sex. I owe Carl a special thank you for his Science Online 2010 discussion on duck genitalia, for it not, I may not have been the fasted tweeter in the South to respond to a trivia question regarding the shape of a duck’s penis, and thereby would never have won a copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (which, by the way, is a FANTASTIC read!) [...]
July 27th, 2010 at 1:28 am
[...] officially sex week over at the Loom. Given Carl Zimmer is one of several science writers who also blog that last year brought us far [...]
July 27th, 2010 at 7:56 am
Sex is profoundly underrated. (As an evolutionary force, I mean, of course.)
July 27th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Hey Carl,
We did Sex Week in May 2009 at Deep Sea News. If you’re interested (ya know, in case ya need some decent material for this rag ;p), start here and work your way forward: http://deepseanews.com/tag/sex-week/page/3/
August 7th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Ironic that there is only one week devoted to sex?
[CZ: Put it this way--this was the one week I wrote a post every day about sex. But heaven knows that they're not the only ones I've written...]