I’m going to be a guest on Road Dog Trucking Radio, the satellite radio channel for truckers. I’m going to talk about parasites, viruses, and other weird critters. Even if you don’t drive a big rig, you’re welcome to tune in.
Originally published October 25, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
Chris Mooney, my fellow Discover blogger, hosts a podcast called Point of Inquiry, and I’m the guest on his new episode. On the occasion of the publication of Brain Cuttings, we talk about the thinking glue that holds our brains together, Francis Collins’s views on the evolution of morality, and the future of books. Check it out!
Originally published October 25, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
On my latest podcast, I take a look at dengue fever, a viral disease that’s infecting some 50 million people a year and is even turning up in the United States. I talk to Thomas Scott of UC Davis about how this cunning virus takes advantage of human networks to spread its aches, pains, bleeding, and death. Check it out.
Originally published October 21, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
Tomorrow I’ll be in New York to host a special screening of the movie Creation, a fictionalized account of Darwin’s life starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. It’s a collaboration between the Science and Arts program at CUNY and the Imagine Science Film Festival (for which I’m serving as judge) and the Science and Entertainment Exchange.
Before the movie, I’ll moderate a talk with the director, John Amiel; Randal Keynes, the author of the book on which the movie is based; and biologists Cliff Tabin and Sean Carroll (of deep homology fame). It should be an excellent evening.
Here are the details:
Wednesday, Oct 20, 7:00 PM
CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY
(Map)
No reservations. First come, first seated.
Originally published October 19, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.
Thanks to two of my favorite brain bloggers for taking an interest in Brain Cuttings.
Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks offers up a classic book review for something that is not quite a book:
Whether you are an enthusiast, a professional psychologist or neuroscientist, or a combination, you will probably learn much from the book due to its breadth of vision. Regardless of who you are you are sure to enjoy the engaging immersions in some of the most interesting ideas in contemporary science.
And over at Neurotribes, science writer Steve Silberman publishes a conversation he and I had the other day on what ebooks mean for our ilk, and our readers. This was not an interview, with pat questions that could have been programmed into a computer. This was instead a long talk, because the subject is something that interests us both. In fact, Silberman wrote a Wired article back in the last century–1998–about the first glimpse of ebooks. Check it out.
Originally published October 18, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.