DISCOVER Magazine. Science, Technology and The Future
  • Log In
  • Subscribe
  • Give a Gift
  • Archives
  • Customer Service
  • Health & Medicine
  • Mind & Brain
  • Technology
  • Space
  • Human Origins
  • Living World
  • Environment
  • Physics & Math
  • Video
  • Photos
  • Podcast
  • RSS

Blogs / The Loom

Carl Zimmer


Posts By This Author

Yale and Rockefeller U: This Week In Talk

The Loom | December 1st, 2008 in Talks | No Comments »

The Carbon Carousel

The Loom | November 23rd, 2008 in Global Warming, Talks | 1 Comment »

A Catastrophic Career

The Loom | November 22nd, 2008 in General, Writing Elsewhere | 4 Comments »

Going Black Tie with the Rock Hounds

The Loom | November 21st, 2008 in General, Writing Elsewhere | 6 Comments »

The Further Adventures of the Emerald Green Sea Slug

The Loom | November 18th, 2008 in Evolution | 12 Comments »

Attention, Philadelphia: We’re Invading Your Brain

The Loom | November 17th, 2008 in Brains, Talks | 4 Comments »

Bike Science

The Loom | November 15th, 2008 in Science Tattoo Emporium | 3 Comments »

Dabbling with the Future: A Slideshow of My Latest Talk

The Loom | November 14th, 2008 in Microcosm: The Book, Talks | 9 Comments »

Going Green

The Loom | November 14th, 2008 in Evolution | 12 Comments »

Battle of the Parents On the Air

The Loom | November 13th, 2008 in Evolution, Talks | No Comments »

If Life Gets Boring…

The Loom | November 13th, 2008 in General | 5 Comments »

You Want A Piece of This? (Please Please Please Don’t Take a Piece of This!)

The Loom | November 13th, 2008 in Evolution | 4 Comments »

« Older Entries

    • About The Loom

      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 six books, the most recent of which is Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].

      Click here for the RSS feed for the Loom at its new location.


    • RSS Recent Posts

      • Yale and Rockefeller U: This Week In Talk
      • The Carbon Carousel
      • A Catastrophic Career
      • Going Black Tie with the Rock Hounds
      • The Further Adventures of the Emerald Green Sea Slug
    • Science Tattoo Emporium

      I once wondered aloud if scientists had tattoos of their science. The answer was yes, and this ever-growing collection is the evidence. If you want to share your own scientific ink, send it to me with some explanation.


    • My Latest Book: Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

      Microcosm: E. coli and The New Science of Life.jpg

      "Superb...quietly revolutionary"--Boston Globe
      Order a copy
    • Blogroll

      • Aetiology
      • Babel’s Dawn
      • Bad Science
      • BdellaNea
      • dechronization
      • Developing Intelligence
      • Evolution & Medicine Review
      • Evolutionary Novelties
      • Gene Expression
      • io9
      • john hawks weblog | paleoanthropology, genetics, and evolution
      • Knight Science Journalism Tracker
      • Laelaps
      • Language Log
      • Living Links Center Blog
      • Mixing Memory
      • Nobel Intent
      • Not Exactly Rocket Science
      • Notes From Kenya: MSU Hyena Research
      • Pharyngula
      • Quark Soup
      • RealClimate
      • Sandwalk
      • Science Made Cool
      • Steven Johnson’s blog
      • The Intersection
      • The Inverse Square Blog
      • The Panda\’s Thumb
      • The Rough Guide to Evolution (Mark Pallen)
      • The Tree of Life
      • This Week in Evolution
      • Word Routes (Ben Zimmer)
    • My stuff

      • CarlZimmer.com
      • Facebook
      • microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
      • My article archive
    • Recent Comments

      • John A. Davison on The Further Adventures of the Emerald Green Sea Slug
      • Mike Clinch on A Catastrophic Career
      • Vijay Sundaram on A Catastrophic Career
      • Dan on Brain Hieroglyph
      • JoanC on Darwin Kong
    • Categories

      • Blink ›
      • Brains
      • Evolution
      • General
      • Global Warming
      • History of Science
      • Hobbits (Homo floresiensis)
      • Link Love
      • Medicine
      • Microcosm: The Book
      • Our Dear Leaders Speak
      • Science Tattoo Emporium
      • Talks
      • The Parasite Files
      • Upcoming Talks
      • Writing Elsewhere
    • RSS DISCOVERmagazine: Living World

      • 20 Best Brains Under 40
      • The Man Who Found That "Genes Hold Culture on a Leash"
      • Mom and Dad Are Fighting in Your Genes—and in Your Brain
      • 10 Studies That Revealed the Great Global Amphibian Die-Off—and Some Possible Solutions
      • Are Frogs Hopping Straight Into Extinction?
    • RSS DISCOVER Blogs: Bad Astronomy

      • Hubble’s Advent on The Big Picture
      • Buy the sky, help save a life
      • Pareidoggiedooria
      • Pining for Mars
      • UFObama
    • Archives



  • Privacy - Terms - Reader Services - Subscribe Today - Advertise - About Us