Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer appears in the following:

Stochasticity

Friday, January 05, 2024

A dance with all the facets of chance.
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Guts

Friday, November 04, 2022

In this episode we will explore the grotesque tube slide inside all of us. 
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Looking for COVID-19's Origin Story

Thursday, May 27, 2021

NYT's Carl Zimmer discuss why the origin of COVID-19 is disputed.

The Challenges of Vaccine Distribution

Monday, November 16, 2020

Carl Zimmer discusses who might be at the top of the list for a COVID-19 vaccine from healthcare workers, to the elderly and minority communities as well as prisoners. 

Creation Translation

Thursday, August 27, 2020

We all know DNA is the Book of Life, the recipe to make you you. But what if the story of us is really DNA's sidekick?

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Never Quite Now

Friday, March 27, 2020

WNYC Studios
We keep missing the moment in the longest experiment in the world and find out "fast as thought" is not as fast as we thought.

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Parasites

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

WNYC Studios
Tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even mind-controlled humans (kinda, maybe).

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Science Is On It

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Science writer Carl Zimmer talks about the immense research effort in finding treatments for Covid-19.

Carl Zimmer Questions Heredity as We Know It

Monday, June 04, 2018

Science writer Carl Zimmer argues the need for a broader definition of heredity and uses recent scientific research to unpack bioethical quandaries.

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Update: CRISPR

Friday, February 24, 2017

In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
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Carl Zimmer's 'Game of Genomes'

Monday, July 11, 2016

This is the story of one man's quest to learn literally everything about his body that science can tell him. 

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Shrink

Thursday, July 30, 2015

The definition of life is in flux, complexity is overrated, and humans are shrinking.
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Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR

Saturday, June 06, 2015

In 2012, scientists had a realization: hidden inside one of the world’s smallest organisms, was one of the world’s most powerful tools.
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Patient Zero - Updated

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center, Patient Zero. We hunt for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.      

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Carl Zimmer on Giant Sandworms

Friday, July 04, 2014

The science writer Carl Zimmer was 10 years old when his family moved to rural New Jersey. He quickly made a new friend whose father was the prolific science fiction illustrator John ...

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Carl Zimmer on Giant Sandworms

Friday, January 24, 2014

The science writer Carl Zimmer was 10 years old when his family moved to rural New Jersey. He quickly made a new friend whose father was the prolific science fiction illustrator J...

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Decoding The Void

Friday, January 17, 2014

What really happens under anesthesia?

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Black Box

Friday, January 17, 2014

We examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery.

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The Fastest Evolving Place on Earth

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Scientists recently determined that Páramos, small, high-elevation ecosystems in the Andes, are the fastest evolving places on earth. Science writer Carl Zimmer explains what makes these tiny mountainous enclaves—and their giant daisy trees—so diverse.

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Never Quite Now

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

How fast is the speed of thought? And what's the slowest experiment on the planet?

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