Category: Newsletter
Greetings–
Happy New Year! I’d like to welcome all the new subscribers who joined us here during the holiday hiatus. I hope you’ll enjoy Friday’s Elk in 2016 and beyond. Each week I send out a relatively brief email to bring subscribers up to date with the stuff I’ve been publishing, along with talks I’m giving and any other relevant news. Continue reading “Friday’s Elk, January 8, 2016”
Greetings–
Like many of you, I’m in a final scramble to finish off a ridiculous to-do list before the holidays hit me like a falling grand piano. So this will probably be the last issue of Friday’s Elk I’ll send out for 2015. I’ll be up and running again on January 8, 2016. So here’s a quick look at the old and the new. Continue reading “Friday’s Elk, December 18, 2015”
Greetings–
I was traveling for much of this week on a reporting trip, part of which I spent suited up in the outfit you can see above. So I don’t have a Matter column this week. Instead, let me direct your attention to the second installment of my “Science Happens” video series for STAT. I pay a visit to a lab where scientists are trying to engineer bacteria to heal our microbiomes.
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Originally published December 11, 2015. Copyright 2015 Carl Zimmer.
Greetings–
Sorry to be sending out this week’s issue of Friday’s Elk on a Saturday. I blame writing. I’m starting on the first draft of my next book, and I was having so much fun spending a day of uninterrupted writing that I forgot about everything else.
Better late than never, here are a couple new items for you to read. Continue reading “Friday’s Elk, December 4, 2015 (The better late than ever edition)”
Greetings–
Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of the turkey fest, here’s a breifer-than-usual Friday’s Elk this week.
Europe Evolving
–This week in the New York Times, I reported about a study of 230 genomes retrieved from European skeletons ranging from 8,500 to 2,300 years in age. They create a chronicle of human evolution, documenting how the agricultural revolution altered the genetic landscape of a continent. Check it out. Continue reading “Friday’s Elk, November 27, 2015”