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An illustration for Dune by the late great sci-fi illustrator Jack Schoenherr. More here: Images of Dune, Part 2: The Art of John Schoenherr | Bedford Book Connections
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An illustration for Dune by the late great sci-fi illustrator Jack Schoenherr. More here: Images of Dune, Part 2: The Art of John Schoenherr | Bedford Book Connections

Source: bedfordbookconnections.wordpress.com

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yaleuniversity:

We’re thrilled to host popular science writer Carl Zimmer for an “Ask X” on the Yale Tumblr!
Here’s how it works:
1) Submit a question via yaleuniversity.tumblr.com/ask.
2) When Carl Zimmer arrives on campus on March 7th to give a talk at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, we’ll kidnap him, pose your questions, and turn the impromptu interview into a YouTube video for your enjoyment.
3) We’ll be choosing only the best 5 - 10 questions to ask him, so make them awesome!
Bio: The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer “as fine a science essayist as we have.” In his books, essays, articles, and blog posts, Zimmer reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life. Zimmer is a member of the Yale College class of 1987, and is a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program.
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yaleuniversity:

We’re thrilled to host popular science writer Carl Zimmer for an “Ask X” on the Yale Tumblr!

Here’s how it works:

1) Submit a question via yaleuniversity.tumblr.com/ask.

2) When Carl Zimmer arrives on campus on March 7th to give a talk at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, we’ll kidnap him, pose your questions, and turn the impromptu interview into a YouTube video for your enjoyment.

3) We’ll be choosing only the best 5 - 10 questions to ask him, so make them awesome!

Bio: The New York Times Book Review calls Carl Zimmer “as fine a science essayist as we have.” In his books, essays, articles, and blog posts, Zimmer reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life. Zimmer is a member of the Yale College class of 1987, and is a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program.

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Blood flukes can live for decades inside us. Are stem cells their fountain of youth?  Read about it at the Loom.   
(Photo: A scanning electron micrograph of a male and female Schistosoma mansoni Credit: Jim Collins, Ana Vieira and Phillip Newmark)
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Blood flukes can live for decades inside us. Are stem cells their fountain of youth?  Read about it at the Loom.   

(Photo: A scanning electron micrograph of a male and female Schistosoma mansoni Credit: Jim Collins, Ana Vieira and Phillip Newmark)

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10000000000000000000000000000000 viruses on Earth? Think more! New at the Loom, my blog at National Geographic: An Infinity of Viruses
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10000000000000000000000000000000 viruses on Earth? Think more! New at the Loom, my blog at National Geographic: An Infinity of Viruses

Source: National Geographic

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This is Diania, a strange animal that lived over half a billion years ago. See the whole gallery here: 
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/18/weird-youth-animal-kingdom/
Image copyright 2013 Quade Paul. Reprinted with permission.
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This is Diania, a strange animal that lived over half a billion years ago. See the whole gallery here: 

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/18/weird-youth-animal-kingdom/

Image copyright 2013 Quade Paul. Reprinted with permission.

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How a parasite grows extra legs on its host…and what that tells us about protecting our own health. See: A Flurry of Frog Legs – Phenomena: The Loom
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How a parasite grows extra legs on its host…and what that tells us about protecting our own health. See: A Flurry of Frog Legs – Phenomena: The Loom

Source: National Geographic

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For the first time we have drilled a hole in Mars.
(via NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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For the first time we have drilled a hole in Mars.

(via NASA Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Source: jpl.nasa.gov

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A virus about to insert its genes into a microbe. One of trillions of viruses that live inside us and may keep us healthy. More details at The Loom.
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A virus about to insert its genes into a microbe. One of trillions of viruses that live inside us and may keep us healthy. More details at The Loom.

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A startling 1941 public health poster. More TB posters at the Library of Congress here. 
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A startling 1941 public health poster. More TB posters at the Library of Congress here. 

Source: loc.gov

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One of the photos that accompanies my new story in the New York Times, “Pigeons, a Darwin Favorite, Carry New Clues to Evolution” (Photo by Robert Clark/Institute)
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One of the photos that accompanies my new story in the New York Times, “Pigeons, a Darwin Favorite, Carry New Clues to Evolution” (Photo by Robert Clark/Institute)

Source: The New York Times

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