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Jennifer writes: “I’m not a scientist (exactly) but I am in the Navy, just like many of the men who visited the moon. My husband and son are space fanatics, the Goodnight Moon window is for my daughter. She loves the book.”
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Originally published January 23, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
Check out this scholarship for high school science teachers to learn tropical biology in Costa Rican jungles. Apply here. Get sweaty. Have a good time.
Originally published January 22, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
It’s been nine years since I published Parasite Rex, but it just got a very cool honor. Amazon has named it one of their highest-rated science books. The criteria are a little squirrely, but I won’t turn it down.
Originally published January 22, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
Tyler Volk, an Earth scientist at New York University, recently wrote a book about climate change and carbon dioxide, called CO2 Rising. I spoke to him about the book in November on Bloggingheads, and he just sent me an email: “I’m on some sort of crazy goal to bring the C-cycle to everyone…I’ve started making some YouTube videos….(I wrote, filmed, acted, did graphics and sound, edited, and played music).”
I’ve embedded Tyler’s first two videos here. It may be a little rough around the edges, but the information’s great and Tyler is quite brave to roll around in leaves and then turn himself into part of a hand-drawn diagram of the carbon cycle. Consider it a garage-band science documentary. Or maybe an audition reel?
Craig writes: “I’m a bioengineering undergrad and am currently interviewing for medical schools (MD/PhD programs). I got this tattoo of a resistor on my wrist, somewhat on a whim. I’ll always be a science geek at heart, however I truly desire to go into medicine in order to help people. The resistor is a sort of reminder to me to ‘resist’ any temptation of money, power, or anything else in order to do good science and to help others.”
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Originally published January 21, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.