My pal DarkSyde is one of the major contributors to a new science book put together by the DailyKos folks. The book is called Kosmos: You Are Here. The foreword is by the brilliant Carl Zimmer and the illustrations by the equally brilliant Carl Buell, the same team that did At the Water's Edge. This looks like a top notch project by some excellent writers. Best of all, you can download it as an e-book. For more information, click here.
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Last week I linked to Carl Zimmer's take down of Casey Luskin.
Imagine a book I would write. On viruses (what else?).
Now, instead of it sounding like it was written by a chimpanzee who learned English from watching 'Waynes World' and 'Waynes World 2' on a loop + 4chan, imagine it was written by an articulate, science-literate human.
Everyone has a bad Monday every now and then, right? Here's one for you: at 7a.m. spilled an entire cappuccino on my laptop and at 7p.m. I hit some black ice on the highway and rolled (and totaled) my truck. That is what I call a rough Monday...but what a banner, no?
I knew I'd love Carl's Microcosm for the delicious irony of using a mere "germ" to illustrate