Author: Matt Kristoffersen
During the World Science Festival, I met Baba Brinkman, who performs hip hop about, among other things, evolution. He let me know that his “Rap Guide to Evolution” will be opening this Friday at the SoHo Playhouse in New York. Here are details about the venue and getting tickets.
Here are a couple videos from Baba…
Here’s a one called, “Performance, Feedback, Revision”:
Here’s Baba at TEDxKids:
Originally published June 14, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.
Thanks to all the Loominaries who have taken extra copies of my books off my hands–or, to be more specific, off my shelves. On Friday, I offered autographed copies of the US hardback edition of Evolution: The Triumph of An Idea, and you cleaned me out in a few hours. Here is a picture of what I’ve got to offer today: two other editions of Evolution. If you’d like one of these books autographed and shipped to you, go to my Amazon store and order a copy.
In the continuing quest to avoid packing boxes before our house gets ripped open for renovations this summer, allow me to offer you–for one week only!–another sale. I’ve got 33 autographed copies of the first US hardback edition of Evolution: The Triumph of An Idea, which are available for $20. (The cover price is $40, and this particular edition has been out of print for some time now.)
I just got back from San Francisco, where I had the privilege to speak at the remarkable Long Now Foundation. Stewart Brand, the head of the foundation, invites people to talk to the group about topics that stretch our conception of time over long scales. So I spoke about viruses and time–how they exist at scales ranging from minutes to eons. The Long Now folks have just posted the audio, which I’ve embedded below. I’ve also embedded the slides for my talk, too.
If I can win the battle against an army of deadlines this week, I’ll try to write out the entire talk as I did with “The Human Lake.” But I’ve learned not to make hard promises.
Audio:
Slides:
Viral Time: Carl Zimmer’s talk at the Long Now Foundation
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Originally published June 9, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.
Last week I was thrilled to moderate a World Science Festival panel about the mysteries of sleep and dreams. The video is now up here. I’m also embedding it below (if WordPress plays nice with the code…). Be sure to watch till the end, when you can learn about snore-gasms.
I’ve actually written about Niels Rattenborg, one of the panelists before, in a piece for the New York Times. I also wrote about the researchers he’s now collaborating with, who put transmitters on birds that go on ultra-long migrations.
Watch live streaming video from worldsciencefestival at livestream.com
Originally published June 8, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.