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Carl Zimmer is an award-winning science writer. He writes regularly for the New York Times and is the author of several books, including Parasite Rex, Soul Made Flesh, and Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life.



Just wanted to thank readers who recently sent me requests for signed bookplates. To make sure that I was dealing with human readers, instead of Ebay robots, I asked folks to send me a picture. Here are a few.


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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life--Introduction (Science)
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Bedbug sex, and all the rest.
"I gaze out a window, a clear, puck-shaped box in my hand. Life fills my view: fescue and clover spre" …more
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“In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.”
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“The extra clutter adds no important insight; instead, it offers more clutter in which erros can lurk.”
Carl Zimmer, Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

“Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.”
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