Broken Genes and Protector Genes
The GOP convention is over, and summer has clamped its heat dome on us. This may be just the time for you to sit down with my "Game of Genomes" series at Stat.
Here's Season One.
Season Two came out on Monday.
And tune back in this coming Monday for the rousing finale, in which I use my genome as a time machine to look back our evolutionary past. Then I look forward to a time when we all get our genome sequenced at the doctor's office. (Alas, that future isn't coming tomorrow.)
Also this week, I had a blast talking on Reddit for one of their AMA's. You can read the conversation here.
I also talked to "How on Earth" on KGNU in Boulder, Colorado. Listen here.
I'll have links to other shows next week, too.
A couple years ago, I wrote a feature for National Geographic about the brain's new mapmakers. I've been trying to keep up with their work since then. This week, one team unveiled an impressive new map, based on intensive scans of hundreds of volunteers. I wrote about their work for my latest column in the New York Times.
July 31: Plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Savannah: "Plants Are Weird: Epigenetics, Journalism, and the Alien Beauty of Botany"
September 8: University of Nebraska. Lecture: A Journey to the Center of the Brain. Details to come
January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
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Best wishes, Carl
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