I just installed a new banner from Carl Buell up top. Sort of 2001 meets parasitoid wasps. It’s making the rest of the blog act funny for reasons I cannot divine, so the tech gods have been appealed to.
Originally published October 3, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.
Last week I groused about having trouble with MySpace, which led others to leave some nasty comments of their own. In the interest of full disclosure, I should now report that I figured out the problem: I was not entering my password correctly. I apologize to the folks at MySpace for blaming them for my own blundering.
Of course, you wouldn’t know that I’m back on MySpace by looking at my page, which is as dull as ever, but that’s just because I haven’t had the time to figure out how to embellish it. (Suggestions welcome!)
Originally published October 3, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.
Good news–I’ve just won the National Academies 2007 Communication Award. Each year the prize is given out jointly by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Institute of Engineering, the National Research Council, and the Institute of Medicine in three categories. The category I entered was writing for newspapers, magazines or the Internet. I decided to submit stuff I’ve written for newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Here are the stories I submitted (with links to my blog posts about them):
Continue reading “Good News: Blogging Continues to Worm Its Way Into the Heart of Journalism”
My talk with John Horgan on bloggingheads.tv is up. I’m sure the fact that the label “weird life” appears directly over my head was an accident (right, John?). Anyway, we had a good talk about parasites, aliens, and how to handle hype in science. I may have made some mistakes–feel free to fact-check in the comment thread. Unfortunately, I can’t strike out my spoken errors, but we can make the best of it. (If you hanker for more scienceblog/bloggingheads encounters, see these talks by PZ Myers and Chris Mooney.)
Originally published September 29, 2007. Copyright 2007 Carl Zimmer.
“My tattoo is from an Irving Geis illustration of DNA. I was attracted to his attention to the molecular detail while also drawing in a representational spiral that doesn’t ignore the basic beauty of the double helix. This particular sequence (I’ve BLASTED) is too short to be specific to only one gene, but one human gene it’s found it is the 5′ UTR of one of our tight junctions.”-Matthew MacDougall, 4th year medical student
Is there no end to the science tattoos out there?
See the 70 I’ve gotten so far at the Flickr set.
Continue reading “Science Tattoo Friday: A Textbook On Your Back”