The Ed's Up #162
Why Online Allies Matter in Fighting Harassment "By programming a variety of Twitter bots to respond to racist abuse against black users, he showed that a...
The Ed's Up #161
First, a word on politics After the last newsletter, one reader wrote in asking me to stop linking to political pieces. He felt it "inappropriate" and said...
The Ed's Up #160
Book news I Contain Multitudes made the Publisher's Weekly list of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2016! And you can also vote for the book in the Goodreads Choice...
The Ed's Up #159
First, some trivia... For reasons that aren't very interesting, I recently had to compile a complete list of all my publications. Turns out, in the 10 years...
The Ed's Up #158
Rock-Smashing Monkeys Unintentionally Make Sharp Stone Tools "In 2014, Michael Haslam wedged between two boulders in northeast Brazil and filmed some monkeys...
The Ed's Up #157
A Google Maps for the Human Body "Over the last few years, Regev has been slowly laying the foundations for compiling a Human Cell Atlas—a complete portrait...
The Ed's Up #156
The Weak Evidence Behind Brain-Training Games "The team, most of whom have worked on brain-training themselves but have not received money from the industry,...
The Ed's Up #155
Chinchillas, man. Who knew? If you're wondering about humans, look below. And if you're wondering about this particular, non-murderous human, here's a list...
The Ed's Up #154
Hello! I've been travelling incessantly between and within the UK and USA; hence, the absent Ed's Up from last week. In the meantime, I Contain Multitudes...
The Ed's Up #153
Book news I Contain Multitudes has been out for a month now. The legendary Tim Radford reviewed it in the Guardian calling it a "marvellous, thrilling and...
The Ed's Up #152
UK Launch! I CONTAIN MULTITUDES is now out in the UK, and you can listen to a really fun interview I did with BBC Radio 5Live's Afternoon Edition. Meanwhile,...
The Ed's Up #151
New York Times Bestseller! Exceeding my wildest expectations, I Contain Multitudes is a New York Times bestseller, and not just in the science-specific list...
The Ed's Up 151 -
Book news I Contain Multitudes has been out for 10 days now and where am I? What is happening? Is this just real life? Ahem. Four very big things happened,...
The Ed's Up #150 - Book news, 400-year-old sharks, and defensive mosquitoes
Book news The book is here! The response on Twitter and elsewhere has exceeded my nervous expectations, and it is so gratifying to see people posting...
The Ed's Up #149 - Book Launch Edition
IT’S HERE! After what seems like a geological era, I Contain Multitudes has finally been unleashed upon the world—or at least upon the US and Canada, which...
The Ed's Up #148
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES is almost here! After what feels like an eternity, my first book is finally being unleashed upon the world (er, or at least, upon the US...
The Ed's Up #147
Book news We are less than two weeks from the publication of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES and things are heating up! Smithsonian.com published the second excerpt...
The Ed's Up #146
The First Book Excerpt Is Up! I'm really excited to announce that the first excerpt from my book is now up, at the New Yorker, no less! It's doubly...
The Ed's Up #145
Book news The first hardbacks arrived at my door this week. These are the UK editions; the US ones are out in 25 days! As always, you can pre-order your...
The Ed's Up #144
Book news We're almost a month away from publication in the US and I wrote a little post about it on my blog. (It's funny; the publication date almost marks...