Carl Zimmer
columnist. Podcast: "What Is Life?"
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What Is National Thowheeth Jama’ath? Suspicion Falls on Sri Lanka Islamic Group
Nytimes.com 20h 7 tweets
No one has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on Easter Sunday, but 10 days earlier, a police official warned of a possible threat by the little-known Islamist group.
Guest post: Why results from the next generation of climate models matter
Carbon Brief 33d 22 tweets
The first results from a new generation of global climate models, which are valuable tools for understanding climate change, are now becoming available from climate research centres around the world.
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Carl Zimmer The early results from some of the next generation of climate models suggest the climate is more sensitive to carbon than previously thought. 15h
Do rich people like bad data tweets about poor people? (Bins, slopes, and graphs edition)
Philip N Cohen - Family Inequality 31h 2 tweets
How a Brad Wilcox tweet taught me nothing at all, but inspired me to write this post.
Elizabeth Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Eliminate Tuition and Cancel Student Debt
Nytimes.com 16h 13 tweets
Ms. Warren’s proposal would use new taxes on the wealthy to end tuition at public colleges, and eliminate all student loan debt for more than 75 percent of borrowers.
Sri Lanka was warned of plot, but 'never expected it to be so big'
NBC News 17h 1 tweets
"We never expected it to be so big," the chief of staff to the country's president told NBC News. "We never thought it would happen so soon."
Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.
Nytimes.com 44h 30 tweets
Public schools in Kansas rolled out a web-based learning platform backed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Now students have staged walkouts and sit-ins. Their parents have organized.
Carl Zimmer Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion. 36h
Blasts reported at churches in Sri Lanka
BBC News 47h 30 tweets
Explosions have been reported at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka as Christians celebrate Easter.
Carl Zimmer Sri Lanka explosions: More than 200 killed as churches and hotels targeted 38h
Forget the Easter Bunny. Let’s Celebrate the Easter Bug.
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It takes the goop of hundeds of thousands of lac bugs to create the coating on your favorite shiny candy.
How hip-hop helps us understand science
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In the early 1990s, a scandal rocked evolutionary biology: scientists discovered that songbirds -- once thought to be strictly monogamous -- engaged in what's politely called "extra-pair copulation." In this unforgettable biology lesson on animal...
Carl Zimmer A by on OPP and EPC and sharing biology 56h
Live Commentary on the Žižek-Peterson Debate | Current Affairs
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<p>Our editor willingly exposes himself to several hours of gruesome torture… </p>
Whole genomes and transcriptomes reveal adaptation and domestication of pistachio
Genome Biology 58h 2 tweets
Pistachio (Pistacia vera), one of the most important commercial nut crops worldwide, is highly adaptable to abiotic stresses and is tolerant to drought and salt stresses. Here, we provide a draft de novo genome of pistachio as well as large-scale...
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Carl Zimmer Genomes of pistachios point to a domestication 8000 years ago, through selection on a gene that controls their size (Wild pistachio on the right, early cultivar in the middle, recent one on the left) [caption fixed] 58h
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Carl Zimmer Genomes of pistachios point to a domestication 8000 years ago, through selection on a gene that controls their size (Wild pistachio on the right, early cultivar in the middle, recent one on the right) 58h
Exclusive: Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags their foreign ties
Science | AAAS 3d 11 tweets
Chinese American community fears ethnic targeting at MD Anderson by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Institutes of Health
CBO: over 1 million Americans have become uninsured since 2016
Sarah Kliff - Vox 4d 8 tweets
It’s not the Mueller report, but it is important.
Carl Zimmer CBO: over 1 million Americans have become uninsured since 2016 via 3d
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Mosquito-borne diseases could reach extra ‘one billion people’ as climate warms
Tom Prater - Carbon Brief 25d 5 tweets
Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global warming, a study finds.
Amid Latest Controversy, Trump Claims 'World's Greatest Memory'
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The GOP front-runner is acting invincible, despite intense push back on his latest outrageous comments.
Carl Zimmer Trump has said he has "the world's greatest memory.” When Mueller asked him about contacts with Russia and Russian election interference, he responded 37 times that he couldn’t recall & 3d