Autographed Books!
I have a couple shelves of my books I need to clear out. You have to buy holiday gifts. We need to talk!
If you'd like to get an autographed copy of one of my books, please check out the Amazon links below. They're all in good or like-new condition.
Amazon's gotten a little buggy when it comes to presenting used books, but these links should take you to a collectible offer marked "Carl Zimmer--Author." First come, first serve!
Evolution: Making Sense of Life (First edition, hardback)
Evolution: The Triumph of An Idea (Look for the offer from "Carl Zimmer--Author")
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life (British hardcover edition)
Parasite Rex (British paperback edition)
A Planet of Viruses (Hardback first edition)
Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
Soul Made Flesh (American paperback edition)
Soul Made Flesh (American hardback edition)
Soul Made Flesh (British paperback edition)
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (First edition, hardback)
The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (Second edition, paperback)
If you have any trouble ordering these items, let me know.
Here are my two most recent New York Times columns for your reading pleasure.
First up: scientists have figured out how to "inject" information directly into the brains of monkeys. This Matrix-like experiment hints at a way to use implants to help people with strokes.
Second up: giant penguins once roamed the southern oceans. I mean, GIANT. Why are they gone?
Last week at Caveat in New York, a great crowd came out to hear Jeremy England of MIT talk about how irreversible physics can lead to life and life-like things. And then I spoke to Steven Benner of the Foundation for Molecular Evolution about how weird life might get elsewhere in the universe. (Horta!)
Next week, on Wednesday December 20, I'll be hosting the final night of the "What Is Life?" series. After wondering what life is and how it began, we are now going to take a look at life in its infancy.
Donato Giovennelli of Rutgers will talk about traveling to Earth's remote corners to get hints about what life looked like four billion years ago. And then we'll talk with Kate Adamala of the University of Minnesota about studying the earliest life forms by trying to make them.
Doors open at 7:30 and the fun starts at 8. You can get tickets here (or at the door).
(And congratulations to the folks at Caveat for this delightful review in The New Yorker!)
I was thrilled that Publishers Weekly picked my forthcoming book as one of next year's "books people are going to be talking about." She Has Her Mother's Laugh will be out in the spring, but you can pre-order a copy now.
December 20, New York. "What Is Life?" Night 4: What did the first life look like?
January 3, 2018 San Francisco: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Plenary Lecture: "Science and Scandal: Reporting on Biology In An Age of Controversy."
February 15, 2018, Rochester, NY: Neilly Series Lecture. Details to come.
You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads. LinkedIn, and Google+. And there's always carlzimmer.com.
Best wishes, Carl
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