Carl Zimmer appears in the following:
Speed
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Leaving Your Lamarck
Monday, November 19, 2012
Inheritance
Monday, November 19, 2012
Manipulating Science Reporting
Friday, September 28, 2012
Last week, a group of scientists in France released a study linking genetically modified food with cancer. Journalists who wanted to see an advanced copy of the research had to sign a confidentially agreement that ensured they wouldn't be able to get other scientists to weigh in on the study. Brooke speaks to science writer Carl Zimmer, who says the researchers were trying to manipulate journalists in order to skew the coverage in their favor.
The Great Brain Mapping Debate
Monday, April 02, 2012
Robert and Carl Zimmer teamed up tonight to moderate a brain mapping brouhaha live at Columbia University. The subject: does the brain's wiring make us who we are? The event has ended, but thanks to everyone who tuned in for the live webcast (and the lively web chat archived below).
Gut Feelings
Monday, April 02, 2012
Guts
Monday, April 02, 2012
The Cell That Started a Pandemic
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sleepless in South Sudan
Monday, October 31, 2011
Carl Zimmer is one of our go-to guys when we need help untangling a complicated scientific idea. But in this short, he unravels something much more personal.
Move Over Blood Type, Gut Bacteria Is Here
Thursday, April 21, 2011
For two decades, scientists and doctors have relied on blood types to categorize patients. Depending on whether one is blood type A, B, AB, or O, doctors could alter their treatment to increase their chances of a successful procedure. But there's a new way for people to be categorized medically — gut bacteria. New research shows that there are three distinct ecosystems in people's guts that could have direct effects of people's heath. We talk with Carl Zimmer, science reporter for our partner The New York Times, who reported on this story in yesterday's paper.
The Science of Smiling
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Carl Zimmer, contributor to The New York Times' Science Times and author of Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind, talks about developments in the research of smiling and what smiling means for our brains.
President Obama's smile was impressively consistent when he posed for photographs with 130 foreign dignitaries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. Check out the video below, from Bus Your Own Tray blogger Eric Spiegelman.
Scientists Crack a Smile
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Why do we smile? Not only do scientists believe they may have discovered the answer to that question, but also to how we perceive the smile. Carl Zimmer, science writer for The New York Times, has the details of this new study to be published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.