Greetings--
A Times double-header this week!
This week, the New York Times ran a series of articles about misconceptions. I rounded out the series with a piece on one of the biggest misconceptions about science: What's a theory? Hint: it doesn't involve someone's ideas about how cats fit in boxes.
For my "Matter" column this week, I write about the science of cuckoldry--how researchers are using DNA to figure out just how often dad isn't dad. (Photo illustration by Stephen Webster.)
I talked with Kishore Hari about viruses for the podcast "Inquiring Minds." Listen here.
April 21: New York. Fordham University. "Editing Life: The Strange Science of Engineering Humans, Altering Nature, and Bringing Species Back from Extinction" Details here.
April 23: Yale. Science & Storytelling Conference. Details here
June 17: Austin, Texas. Public Lecture for the Stephen Jay Gould Award. Details here
June 23-25: Durham North Carolina: International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Plenary Lecture. Here's the meeting site.
June 29: Boston: Festival of Genomics, Plenary Lecture, "Tales from the genome beat: how journalists explore (& sometimes get lost in) our DNA." Details here.
July 31: Keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Savannah
January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
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Best wishes, Carl
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