Carl Zimmer
@nytimes columnist. New book: "She Has Her Mother's Laugh" bit.ly/SheHasHerMothe… My tweets are invitations to read the stories to which I link.
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Horrific Details on Syria Chemical Attacks Left Out, for Now, From U.N. Report — The New York Times
An early draft of a report on the recapture of rebel-held Damascus suburbs contained information about chemical attacks omitted from the final version.
Carl Zimmer
Horrific Details on Syria Chemical Attacks Left Out, for Now, From U.N. Report - The New York Times
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Families will no longer be separated at the border. But where are my clients’ kids?
A Texas public defender says he can’t get answers for the parents who have already lost their children.
Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust.
Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have benefited lobsters and the lobstermen who trap them. But as temperatures rise further, will the industry reach a tipping point?
“It's Haunting”: Officials Describe “Tender Age” Shelters For The Youngest Migrants Separated From Their Families
Lawmakers and medical professionals describe what it’s like to visit shelters that house babies as young as 8-months old.
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Carl Zimmer
“A 9-year-old boy from Honduras named Eddie was separated from his mother at the border and was sent 2,000 miles on a bus to the shelter in New York City”
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Trump just erased an Obama-era policy to protect the oceans
Obama's national ocean policy, created during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, called on the federal government to work with states and local governments to enhance and protect oceans.
Sociogenetic Risks — Ancestry DNA Testing, Third-Party Identity, and Protection of Privacy | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Sociogenetic Risks — Ancestry DNA Testing, Third-Party Identity, and Protection of Privacy
Carl Zimmer
Sociogenetic Risks — Ancestry DNA Testing, Third-Party Identity, and Protection of Privacy | NEJM
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Exclusive: Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish
Human stem cells with a gene from our extinct relative produce brain organoids that differ in appearance and behavior
Migrants and refugees are good for economies
Analysis of 30 years of data from Western Europe refutes suggestions that asylum seekers pose a financial burden.
Kids brought to NYC immigration foster agency
The video was shot at 12:45 a.m Wednesday.
Carl Zimmer
Video of young Spanish-speaking girls being brought to New York immigrant foster agency in the middle of the night.
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Trump Just Signed Something About Children Being Separated From Families, But It's Unclear What Exactly It Is
“I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that. I’ll be doing something that’s somewhat preemptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I’m sure," Trump said.
‘Omnigenic’ Model Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait
The more closely geneticists look at complex traits and diseases, the harder it gets to find active genes that don’t play some part in them.
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Carl Zimmer
Cool update report on omnigenics by @vero_greenwood “Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait” quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-mode… via @QuantaMagazine
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Researchers find last of universe's missing ordinary matter
CU Boulder scientists are part of an international team that may have answered a long-running mystery called the "missing baryon problem."
Carl Zimmer
Scientists have found the last missing ordinary matter in the universe. Now, onto the dark stuff!
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Michael Cohen resigns from RNC committee post, sources say
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime confidant and former personal attorney, has resigned from his post as deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee's Finance Committee, sources close to the RNC told ABC News.
In his resignation...
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Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims
New legal filings show immigrant children in U.S. custody are subdued with powerful psychiatric drugs.
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Carl Zimmer
Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims revealnews.org/blog/immigrant… via @reveal
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Behind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremacy
The history of the statute that can make it a felony to illegally enter the country involves some dark corners of U.S. history.
Torn from immigrant parents, 8-month-old baby lands in Michigan
After feds deny separating babies from parents, Michigan foster agency says it's helping two infants torn from their families. One is 8 months old.
Carl Zimmer
Babies as young as 8 months old separated from their parents at the border are showing up in MIchigan in the middle of the night.
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Heredity and Our Fascination with It
A new book traces the history and science of a concept that resonates deeply.
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Carl Zimmer
Thanks to @razibkhan for this kind review of “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh”: “It is a wondrous exposé of the rapid-fire results and advances being made in 21st-century genetics, and the social and cultural consequences that they might unleash”
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Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect
Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion to private companies operating shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and abuse.