Greetings to New Readers
To those of you just signing up for Friday's Elk, welcome! I generally send this newsletter out each Friday, as the name suggests, but sometimes life gets in the way. You can peruse back issues of the newsletter for free in this archive. There you'll find links to stories I've written, videos of talks I've given, podcasts and radio shows I've spoken on, details on upcoming events, and updates about my next book, She Has Her Mother's Laugh, coming out in May. On March 15, my publisher and I will randomly pick five Friday's Elk subscribers to receive free early copies of the book.
In January, I gave the plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. I talked about the destructive pressure that politicians are putting on some forms of basic research these days. After the lecture, I sat down with Art Woods and Marty Martin, a pair of biologists who recently launched a new podcast called "Big Biology." (Itunes).
In our chat, we looked ahead at the future of biology--from genomes to cancer biology to the microbiome. We also talked about how biologists can continue to study things that might seem silly to some, but ultimately give us profound insights into how life works. You can listen to the official episode or the full, unedited conversation.
All for now!
My latest book, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, comes out in May. You can pre-order it here. You can find information and ordering links for my other books here. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads. LinkedIn, and Google+. If someone forwarded this email to you, you can subscribe to it here.
Best wishes, Carl
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