The Ed's Up #143
Book news It's 7 weeks from the US publication of I Contain Multitudes, and I've got a couple of dates for your diary. If you're in New York, I'll be talking...
The Ed's Up #142
Book news Io9 included I Contain Multitudes on their list of "All the Books You Desperately Need to Add to Your 'To Read' Pile This Summer", along with many...
The Ed's Up #141
Book news I Contain Multitudes is just two months way from publication. Last week, Wired included it on its list of 14 must-read books for the summer,...
The Ed's Up #140
Book news The first reviews are in for I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, and I'm delighted to say that the book got two starred reviews from both Publisher's Weekly and...
The Ed's Up #139
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES is 75 days away from publication in the US, 98 days away from publication in the UK, and available to pre-order right now. A Shocking...
The Ed's Up #138
Book stuff I Contain Multitudes is 11 weeks away from publication, and is available to pre-order on Amazon. I just gave my first talk about it at the...
The Ed's Up #137
The Genetics of Staying in School "In a study of almost 294,000 people, an international team has identified variants in 74 genes that are associated with...
The Ed's Up #136
Every Episode of David Attenborough’s Life Series, Ranked This is probably the most fun I've ever had working on a project. To celebrate David Attenborough's...
The Ed's Up #135
Book update Here are the US versions of my book, out really soon on August 9th! A DNA Sequencer in Every Pocket "While one MinION is heading off-world,...
The Ed's Up #134
Why We Sleep Badly on Our First Night in a New Place "Other animals can straddle the boundaries between sleeping and wakefulness. Whales, dolphins, and many...
The Ed's Up #133
Book update I got the proofs of my book this week! It's amazing to see it as an actual physical object. This is a version of the UK cover (the real one will...
The Ed's Up #132
Coming to a screen near you (maybe) I'm delighted to announce that Tangled Bank Studios have optioned the rights to my upcoming book, I Contain Multitudes,...
The Ed's Up #131
The 8-Bit Game That Makes Statistics Addictive "Before I started playing Guess the Correlation, I didn’t expect to spend an hour of my Easter weekend...
The Ed's Up #130
The Mysterious Thing About a Marvelous New Synthetic Cell "Why bother? Because they ultimately want to intelligently design new life-forms from scratch—say,...
The Ed's Up #129
Solving the Mystery of the Tully Monster "It turns out to be a close relative of modern lampreys—those nightmarish, blood-sucking fish that are essentially...
The Ed's Up #128
Corruption Corrupts "Corruption deprives citizens of more than money. It’s also tied to a shortfall in honesty. In a new study, Simon Gächter and Jonathan...
The Ed's Up #127
The Most Promising Cancer Therapy in Decades Is About to Get Better "The rise of immunotherapy has been one of the most startling and promising developments...
The Ed's Up #126
Eagle-eyed subscribers might note that there was no Ed's Up #124, and that I skipped straight from 123 to 125. This may seem like an arithmetical error on my...
The Ed's Up #125
XY Bias: How Male Biology Students See Their Female Peers "Over the last three years, Sarah Eddy and Daniel Grunspan have asked over 1,700 biology...
The Ed's Up #123
Natural History Museums Are Teeming With Undiscovered Species "These discoveries strike me as being deeply sad, in a way that digging up prehistoric fossils...