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Tag: Carl Zimmer

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Andre Fenton, comeback memory player of the year

Posted on June 23, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Carl Zimmer on memory researcher Andre Fenton, comeback researcher of the year. In an age when we get a lot of our medical news in click-baity headlines and has...

Brains and Behavior/Published elsewhere/Writing

Yaba-daba – my “Social Life of Genomes” story won a AAAS award.

Posted on November 6, 2014 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

A good day (so far). The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today announced that “The Social Life of Genes” (Pacific Standard, Sept/Oct ...

Anthropology/Books/Brains and Behavior/Genetics/Medicine/Readings/Side Tracks/Writing

Gay Genes, Death Papers, Parasites, Neanderthals, & Anja Niedringhaus. My Reads of the Week

Posted on April 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The world has lost a truly splendid photographer — Anja Niedringhaus, murdered this week in Afghanistan. This was a determined, brave journalist and an unbeliev...

Biology/Medicine

Naked Mole Rats Get Their Day in the Sun, Because Cancer

Posted on June 19, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Turns out one of the world’s ugliest creatures, the naked mole rat, does not get cancer, even if you really hard to make it happen. The coverage is fabulo...

Medicine/Uncategorized

Serotonin, the Zombie Chemical

Posted on December 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

  Neurotransmitters are highly important and mind-bendingly complex. That’s why now and then I hip-check writers who boil neurotransmitters down to s...

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Don’t Step in That Sh*t: How the GMO-Study Authors Played the Media

Posted on September 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Last week a small group of scientists and journalists signed a secret pact to do a bad, bad, really bad thing to science, journalism, and everyone that depends ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” and the Perils of Neuro Self-Help, or How Dupe-amine Drove Me Into a Dark Dungeon

Posted on September 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

Someone should have warned Naomi Wolf what slippery material she’d get encounter by taking a neuro angle into Vagina: A New Biography. As Zoe Heller expla...

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“How Full of Sh*t Are They?” and Other Questions Writers Ask

Posted on June 5, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Q: Is that a real skull?   A: Yes Q: Just how full of shit are they — like, completely? A: Completely. What kinds of questions do writers ask? Particularly when...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Arsenic is Life and the View From Nowhere

Posted on September 29, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Note: Major second thoughts at bottom; post retitled (formerly “Cutting to the Chase on the Arsenic Circus”)] Popular Science has run what strikes ...

Culture of Science/Uncategorized

Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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