Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe
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Enhanced with helpful links. Visit conversationswithler.com Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I am speaking with Carl Zimmer. Carl, as far as I know, is the only person who has both a tapeworm and an asteroid named after him.
The proximate reason for this episode is Carl's excellent new book. It's called Airborne The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe and Carl is also a longstanding columnist for the New York Times, he teaches writing at Yale, and he has numerous other science books on biology, evolution, heredity, and other topics. Carl. Welcome. Thanks so much for having me.
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