This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Our Choice. By Al Gore.
Guest reviewed by Dan Fagin
April 9, 2012
Continue reading “Blowing Windmills and Seeing the Future: Al Gore’s Our Choice”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Fish: A Tap Essay. By Robin Sloan.
Reviewed by David Dobbs
April 6, 2012
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One smoggy afternoon in the summer of 2010, I took a walk down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue in Bejing. The ten-lane thoroughfare was packed with cars, buses, pedalos, and bicycles. But even here, in China’s hyperurbanized core, there were birds to keep me company. Sparrows shot around the roadside trees. Black and white magpies perched in the treetops, issuing their rattling calls. I was walking down Xi Zhi Men Wai Avenue to pay a visit to a museum, where I could take a close look at the fossilized remains of some ancient cousins to the magpies. I was going to see some feathered dinosaurs.
Continue reading “The One-Ton Turkey: Further Adventures in Slow-Cooked Science”
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
March of the Dinosaurs. Published by Touch Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Brian Switek
April 4, 2012
On March 20, I delivered a keynote talk at the Joint Genome Institute annual meeting. I talked about my experience of reporting on genomes over the past two decades–from my initial awe at the very first sequenced genomes to weary fatigue as thousands of genomes were published, and to a recognition of what the real news is about genomes today. Here’s the video.
Originally published April 3, 2012. Copyright 2012 Carl Zimmer.