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Weldon writes, “I doubt I’m the only one with this, but Maxwell’s Equations in differential form on my arm are attached. Unfortunately it’s hard to get any shot of all four at once (given the curvature) and it’s hard to get my arm in the right position for any camera to get Ampere’s circuital law.”
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Originally published December 10, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
A while back I mentioned I’d written a piece on the evolution of weird eyes for the new journal Evolution: Education and Outreach. Now the issue in which it appears–a special one dedicated to the evolution of the eye–is online and free as free can be. So download away. Here’s the table of contents, with links.
Evolution: Education and Outreach
Here’s the list.
Originally published December 10, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
Jennifer writes, “It’s the RNA world hypothesis, but I took a little poetic license and used DNA instead of RNA just because I thought double stranded would be more aesthetic.”
Carl: Here’s an article I wrote for Discover about the RNA world hypothesis for how life got started. And another for Science.
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Originally published December 9, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
On Friday I wrote about how good science fiction (at least to my tastes) often relies on bad science. I was glad to see my ravings triggered a lot of responses over the weekend, both here and abroad at sites like Science Made Cool and io9 (see the comments to their first and second posts). There’s no way I could respond to all the comments, but one in particular stuck in my memory–
Tim Bryon wrote:
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