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









