Neuroscience
Carl Zimmer's Blog
Carl Zimmer is a very readable writer of popular science. His most recent work is a biography of Thomas Willis, entitled
Soul Made Flesh. I hadn't realized, until this afternoon, what an excellent blog he writes. Now, I do. His blog,
The Loom, can be found at http://www.corante.com/loom/.
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C-span Video Library: Carl Zimmer's Soul Made Flesh
C-SPAN Video Library: Carl Zimmer's "Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain": Watch the Talk From 23 February 2004, "Carl Zimmer talked about his book, Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, published by The...
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A Brainy Tattoo
From Carl Zimmer's The Loom: A report and picture of a brainy tattoo. :-) --- How do *you* spell brain?...
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Glia
An article written by Carl Zimmer for the September issue of Discover magazine: read the article The Dark Matter of the Human Brain Meet the forgotten 90 percent of your brain: glial cells, which outnumber your neurons ten to one. And no one really knows...
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Self-awareness
The November 2005 issue of Scientific American includes an article by Carl Zimmer, The Neurobiology of the Self. Update 26 October 2005 - Carl Zimmer has placed a link to a .pdf version of this article on his blog. - Anthony H. Risser | neuroscience...
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Carl Zimmer Re-aired On Whyy's Fresh Air
While looking at the recent shows of Terry Gross's interview show, I noticed that she recently re-aired a February 2004 interview with Carl Zimmer about his book Soul Made Flesh (the story of Thomas Willis and the founding of neurology). The audio...
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