Author: Carl Zimmer
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
June 1, 2012
Reviewed by Carl Zimmer
Continue reading “I Point To TED Talks and I Point to Kim Kardashian. That Is All.”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
May 30, 2012
Guest reviewed by Jude Isabella
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
May 22, 2012
By Carl Zimmer
The Atavist is no stranger to this site. In fact, we’ve set up a category for the ebooks that come from this innovative ebook publisher. Yesterday, The New York Times‘s David Carr broke the news that it has gotten $1.5 million in seed money from some of the biggest names in technology, such as Eric Schmidt of Google. So this afternoon I Skyped Evan Ratliff, the chief executive of the Atavist, to talk about how they do what they do, why they end up publishing so much science, and what lies in the future for their operation. I recorded our Skype conversation on a Macbook that’s really only good these days as a walkway tile. But for some reason the video file turned out to be fairly viewable, and the audio very audible (I think an office dog chimes in late in the conversation). So I’ve uploaded it to YouTube and embedded it below. I’ve posted the audio below, too.
Continue reading “Inside the Atavist: A conversation with Evan Ratliff”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
May 18, 2012
Guest reviewed by Veronique Greenwood
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
May 4, 2012
Reviewed by Carl Zimmer