![]() ![]() –From a review of Microcosm at Daily Kos, which comes a few days after another enthusiastic review in the right-leaning New York Sun. He starts clumsily, but the book quickly comes alive. coli and the New Science of Life Carl Zimmer. Carl Zimmer is the author of 12 books about science, including Microcosm: E-coli and The New Science of Life and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, and writes frequently for the New York Times and magazines such as National Geographic and Discover.Since 2003 he has written The Loom, an award-winning blog. Not until I sat down to write this review did it really hit me just how packed this book is with science, each chapter written so well it can stand alone as a specific object lesson, and each lesson coming together in the book with biology, historical characters, and eureka moments in a scrumptious blend of mind candy. coli is the lens Carl Zimmer uses to bring biology into focus. coli and the New Science of Life BUY THIS BOOK Microcosm: E. Each selection from his book is accompanied by an introductory essay by Carl Zimmer, reflecting on the history. coli’s pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. One day in late August, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatau blew up in the sea near Java, some 27 miles from land. He’s also renowned for effortlessly slipping a giant payload of scientific knowledge into the reader, sweetened with human drama, one so comprehensive a student struggling with a dry textbook would have had to hammer into their head over the course of an entire semester.Ĭarl didn’t disappoint: within a few short pages he had me completely, delightfully hooked. In this startlingly original biography of a germ, Zimmer traces E. But best selling science writer Carl Zimmer is a master story teller and superb researcher. Here you can read articles hes written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications.In 2004, Zimmer launched 'The Loom,' a blog about science that has been hosted over the years by Discover and National Geographic. Acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer uses the familiar bacterium E coli as a prism to understand what life is, what it was, and what it will become. coli and the New Science of Life. You can listen to the podcast here, whoopsgo to this page and look for my mug. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.Had another author told me his publisher was sending me a copy of a book on Escherichia coli, I would have been perhaps quietly unenthusiastic. Carl Zimmer has been writing about science since 1990. The subject was my new book, Microcosm: E. I also stopped by KUSP when I was in Santa Cruz, CA, last week, and talked on their show, Talk of the Bay. A Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine Granta Magazine The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. I jump in at about minute 32:00, but the whole show is worth a listen. 0 Ratings 2 Want to read 0 Currently reading 2 Have read Borrow Listen. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer. She Has Her Mothers Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. My interview on This Week In Science is now online here. Microcosm by Carl Zimmer, May 6, 2008, Pantheon edition, Hardcover in English. Timmer and I also had a talk via Skype recently not just about Microcosm, but about writing about science in general, and he’s posted the interview (page one and two). That’s the introduction of John Timmer’s review of Microcosm over at Ars Technica (a great technology and science site that was recently snatched up by Conde Nast). Still, he handles the challenge extraordinarily well. Covering all of life is a big task, and Zimmer made the challenge that much harder on himself by choosing to target the book to a general audience. ![]() For Zimmer, the system that serves as a model of all life, and of humanity’s often uncomfortable relationship to it, is the unprepossessing gut bacteria, Escherischia coli. Carl Zimmer effectively applies this principle in his engrossing new book, Microcosm, relating the study of these microbes to larger developments in biology and thoughtfully discussing the. coli and the New Science of Life, Science writer Carl Zimmer took that reductionist approach and applied it to a pretty big issue: life itself. ![]() ![]() The field of biology has been wildly successful by taking what’s called a reductionist approach, i.e., you tackle a small problem in isolation in order to gain insight into larger questions. ![]()
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