Friday's Elk, June 3, 2018

Thirteen Things
Whew. The first week since the publication of She Has Her Mother's Laugh publication day has been busy. Here's a linky list of thirteen things that happened:

1. An incredibly gratifying review ran in the Sunday Times Book Review, calling She Has Her Mother's Laugh "extraordinary."

2. I talked about the possible science-fiction futures of heredity on WBUR's Radio Boston.

3. Amazon put She Has Her Mother's Laugh on its "Best of the Month" list.

4. The Daily Beast published the prologue of She Has Her Mother's Laugh

5. I talked to Jonathan Capehart about heredity on WNYC New York's Midday.

6. My publisher, Dutton, put a few minutes of the audiobook version on Soundcloud. Take a listen.

7. I answered some questions on Reddit.

8. Stat published another excerpt from the book, in which I write about how microbes can be inherited much like genes, and how our life depends on this microbial inheritance.

9. My mom, local historian extraordinaire, took a closer look at my chapter on eugenics, which is set not far from where I grew up in New Jersey.

10. The New York Post ran a quick piece on the book's exploration of chimeras.

11. Here's an episode of the podcast "Talk Nerdy To Me" hosted by Cara Santa Maria all about She Has Her Mother's Laugh.

12. I talked to Joanne Manaster and Jeff Shaumeyer about heredity for their YouTube show, Read Science!

13. I squeezed in a new column on a particularly cool study of heredity. It's about the peopling of the Americas. Ancient DNA suggests that humans came into North America from Asia, split about 13,000 years ago, stayed genetically separate for thousands of years, and then merged back together some time before 5,000 years ago.

There's more to come, which I'll be able to share next week. And to all you folks around DC: please join me and Ed Yong at Kramerbooks on Wednesday. See below!

  Upcoming Talks  

THIS WEDNESDAY! June 6, 2018 Kramerbooks, Washington DC, with Ed Yong

June 19, 2018 Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, Palo Alto CA

June 20, 2018 Denver Museum of Nature and Science

June 21-24, 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival

September 20, 2018 University of Bath (UK), Evolution in the 21st Century

October 17, 2018 Colorado State University: Murray Honors Visiting Scholar Lecture (details to come)

October 19, 2018 CSICon, Las Vegas

October 25, 2018 Mount Holyoke College (details to come)

November 7, 2018 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (details to come)

November 14, 2018 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (details to come)

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Best wishes, Carl