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We'd rather sell than pack!
The Zimmer clan is preparing for some renovations to the house, which means boxing up all my books. We’ve got a particularly tall stack of copies of my first book, At the Water’s Edge: Fish with...
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Lisa Randall to judge this year's 3 Quarks Daily science prize. Send in your...
The blog 3 Quarks Daily awards an annual prize for the best science blog post of the year. This year, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is judging the entries. The deadline is May 31 11:59 pm EST. If...
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The folks at 3 Quarks Daily are winnowing down the entrants for the best science blog post of the year. They want you to help select the finalists by voting for your favorite post from the 87 nominees....
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The tedious inevitability of Nobel Prize disputes
Once more we are going through the annual ritual of the Nobel Prize announcements. The early morning phone calls, the expressions of shock, the gnashing of teeth in the betting pools. In the midst of...
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Thanks to readers!
Just wanted to thank readers who recently sent me requests for signed bookplates. To make sure that I was dealing with human readers, instead of Ebay robots, I asked folks to send me a picture. Here...
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Science Literacy: A Worldwide Look
I was skimming through the new Science and Engineering Indicators 2012 from the National Science Foundation when I came across this very interesting table. Whenever I see reports about science literacy...
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A Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for science? My new piece in Slate
Like a number of other science writers, I’ve become increasingly interested (and concerned) about science’s ability to correct itself. (See my recent pieces about arsenic life, de-discovery, and...
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A Very Special Tree of Life
Yesterday I went to Rutgers University to give a talk about medical ecology. Afterwards, I got a delightful surprise: Amy Chen Vollmer, the president of the Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, got on...
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Friday’s Elk: A Newsletter For Those Who Like Their Science By Email
I’ve discovered that some people who read my stuff don’t obsess over RSS, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of the social media world the way I do, so I’ve decided to email a short newsletter every...
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