Scientific American (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Quick: How many top science writers were spotted standing behind a Republican Senate candidate during a concession speech last night? Only one, as far as we know: Carl Zimmer. [More]
Seth D. Dobson, Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Renown science journalist Carl Zimmer has recently published an article on facial expression in Discover Magazine . The article describes my own research on facial mobility , as well as research by Bridget Waller and Anne Burrows .
Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... was a very serious poet, but he may be best known for his mordant "This be the verse", with its famous NSFW first line that was even the theme for an issue of Granta . I was surprised and tickled to see a YouTube of Larkin photos over a reading of that poem at Carl Zimmer's evo blog The Loom. A commenter on that post said it was not Larkin reading, and I wondered who it might be....
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... Go film P. Z. Myers for a couple of days. Spend some time with Kenneth Miller. Go interview Carl Zimmer about writing the books. Get Andy Ellington’s explanation for the ins and outs of chirality. With dozens of experts available, you don’t have even one? Tip of the old scrub brush to Pamela Bumsted, Life Hacker , and The Boston Globe . Posted in Research, Science, Technology, Video...
Geoff Coupe's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Carl Zimmer, over at The Loom , has a couple of fascinating posts on the Emerald Green Sea Slug, which turns out to be something from science fiction - practically a plant/animal hybrid. Wonderful.
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Earlier, I called attention to this longish but very informative article by Carl Zimmer, “Now: The Rest of the Genome” (The New York Times, November 11, 2008). It pretty much blows the genetic reductionism I grew up with out of the water. The “gene” - that little coil of sugar that ran our lives back [...]
Yann Klimentidis' Weblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
There's an article in the NYT by Carl Zimmer called "Now: The Rest of the Genome" that discusses some of the new findings about how genes work: Here are some of the more interesting nuggets: "the average protein-coding region produces 5.7 different transcripts" "cells often toss exons into transcripts from other genes. Those exons may come from distant locations, even from different chromosomes."...
within the crainium (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Carl Zimmer has collected ~175 science tattoos at The Loom, a blog at Discover Magazine's site. This was one of my favorites. But it has a sad story associated with it. In April, a reader named Abigail sent in this...
io9 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The human genome was sequenced almost a decade ago. Now we've entered the age of genomics — the study of what genes do, as well as what they don't. A terrific article by Carl Zimmer in the New... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gaddeswarup's blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
Evolution of the concept of gene, from abstract to concrete to diffuse and complex, by Carl Zimmer Now: The Rest of the Genome (via Shanti Gadde). Related The Promise and Power of RNA (via 3quarksdaily). Evolution's new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective (via Evolutionary Psychology discussion group). Excerpt: "The work also confirms an idea first floated in...
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
There has been much wringing of hands about the definition of the term "gene." The worries aren't new, but they have become a topic this week because of a NY Times article by Carl Zimmer. It seems that the Mendelian gene just isn't doing it for some geneticists. One wonders whether they would prefer to call themselves DNAticists, alternate splicists and methylatrices. I lecture on this...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Carl Zimmer in The New York Times: Over the summer, Sonja Prohaska decided to try an experiment. She would spend a day without ever saying the word “gene.” Dr. Prohaska is a bioinformatician at the University of Leipzig in Germany....
DoughStreet.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Back in the 20th century, a gene was such a simple thing: The lone carrier of inherited biological information, a single stretch of DNA that contained the code to create a single protein. But, as is so often the case in science, the more we’ve learned about genes, the more we’ve realized how much we don’t know. As science writer Carl Zimmer explains in this morning’s New York Times ,...
Evolving Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Here , by the incredibly young, handsome and way too successful Carl Zimmer , late of the Seed stable. Carl brings to mind my favourite Truman Capote saying: It is not enough to succeed. Friends must be seen to have failed. Anyway, go read the bastard's excellent essay. I will just sit here in my pool of failure. Read the comments on this post...
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... with DNA. The gene, in other words, is in an identity crisis. - “Now the Rest of the Genome” by Carl Zimmer (New York Times, November 10, 2008) And will somebody please text Lamarck, and tell him he’s being rehabilitated? Copyright © 2008 Uncommon Descent . This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you...
