Carl Zimmer (Author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh)

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Carl Zimmer

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Carl Zimmer is a and the author of 13 books about science. His latest book, , will be published in May 2018. Zimmer is a and has written hundreds of articles for magazines such as National Geographic, The Atlantic, and Wired. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named. Visit him at , on Facebook at and on Twitter ...more

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	She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity 4.16 avg rating — 6,986 ratings — published 2018 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures 4.20 avg rating — 5,844 ratings — published 2000 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea 4.11 avg rating — 5,147 ratings — published 2001 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Planet of Viruses 4.06 avg rating — 4,888 ratings — published 2011 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive 3.94 avg rating — 2,168 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea by Carl Zimmer (欧宝娱乐 Author), Carl Dennis Buell (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life 4.11 avg rating — 1,357 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer (欧宝娱乐 Author), Carl Zimmer (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.86 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain鈥攁nd How it Changed the World 3.97 avg rating — 646 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer (欧宝娱乐 Author), Jaime Green (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.83 avg rating — 319 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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Carl Zimmer said: " I do not do well with audiobooks. I quickly drift away to thoughts about other things. When I come back to the audiobook, I usually have no idea what's going on. I recently launched into Genius, James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman, and this e ...more "

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“In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles鈥檚 soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.”
― Carl Zimmer

tags: italy, science, syphyllis

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“Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was devoured by a second eukaryote. This new host gutted the alga, casting away its nucleus and its mitochondria, keeping only the chloroplast. That thief of a thief was the ancestor or Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. And this Russian-doll sequence of events explains why you can cure malaria with an antibiotic that kills bacteria: because Plasmodium has a former bacterium inside it doing some vital business.”
― Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

tags: amazing-biology

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“The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of a snake or the semen of a man. Creation and destruction in one word.”
― Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses

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Who do you think has done most to promote the public understanding of science?

Carl Sagan

5 votes, 25.0%

Richard Feynman

5 votes, 25.0%

Stephen Hawking

3 votes, 15.0%

Edward O. Wilson

2 votes, 10.0%

Richard Dawkins

1 vote, 5.0%

Michio Kaku

1 vote, 5.0%

Carl Zimmer

1 vote, 5.0%

David Attenborough

1 vote, 5.0%

S. Hawking (write-in)

1 vote, 5.0%

Stephen Jay Gould

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Rachel Carson

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Jared Diamond

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