Author: Matt Kristoffersen
January is playing hardball with the Nutmeg State. The rain and melting snow are creating their own special havoc (including power cuts in some places in New Haven). So the Ordinary Reading Series has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for the spring–once we get all our Noreasters out of our system.
Originally published January 18, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.
You may have heard about the new paper on how people tend to pick friends who carry a similar gene variant. If true, it would be very cool. But in Nature, Amy Maxmen quotes scientists who don’t like the study at all:
Our very, very latest winter storm has warmed up into a rainy afternoon. Assuming that the roads don’t proceed to freeze into ribbons of ice this evening, you will find me at 7 pm tonight in the Mermaid Room at the Anchor Bar, 272 College St., New Haven, for a free reading with author Annie Murphy Paul, as part of the Ordinary Evening Reading Series. Check back at the series site at 5:45 for our confirmation.
[Image: New Haven Advocate]
Originally published January 18, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.
The comment thread for my post about good writing has turned into a fascinatingly well-focused discussion on writing about math. A mathematician arrived, rending his garments in despair, and now others–both writers and readers–are responding. I’ve always considered math the toughest subject a science writer can tackle, so I find the conversation especially interesting. Check it out.
Originally published January 18, 2011. Copyright 2011 Carl Zimmer.
A few months back I took the train to New Haven to learn about feathers. I sought out an ornithologist at Yale named Richard Prum in his office. As soon as I walked in, he promptly picked up a manila envelope from his desk. Out of it he drew what looked like the black wooden handle of a long paint brush.
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