Here’s a fun talk I had Saturday on Science Cabaret, a radio show on WICB in Ithaca. The host, Jennifer Nelson, is a graduate student at Cornell and has only been interviewing people about science for two months, but she’s clearly a natural at this. At the Science Cabaret site, you can listen to her earlier talks, too. Check them out.

Originally published November 16, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.

Palin didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea, or from monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.

Quoted in Michiko Katutani’s review of Sarah Palin’s new memoir.

Originally published November 15, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.

This is definitely going into the swine flu talk! From Colin Purrington’s The Axis of Evo.

Originally published November 12, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.

Tomorrow morning I’m hopping a plane and spending the afternoon at Cornell. On Saturday, I’ll be giving a talk about The Origin of Species just down the road in downtown Ithaca. Caren Cooper, an ornithologist at Cornell, has used my upcoming talk as the hook for a lovely essay in the Ithaca Times about the real wonder of science versus the make-believe of pseudoscience. You can find details about the talk here.

Originally published November 12, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.

Just a reminder to my fellow Nutmeggers: I will be speaking tomorrow at 5:30 pm at the Peabody Museum at Yale in New Haven. The title of the talk is “Darwin Gets Swine Flu.” Pigs, ducks, sneezes, and more.

Details here.

Originally published November 11, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.