Each year the American Association for the Advancement of Science chooses a speaker to deliver the annual John Wesley Powell Memorial Lecture, in honor of the great American geologist who mapped the Grand Canyon in the 1870s. Previous lecturers have included Carl Sagan and Oliver Sacks. I was invited to give the 2009 lecture. The title of my talk is, What Is Life, An Ancient Question Meets 21st Century Science. This video combines an audio recording of my talk with the slides I presented. I ho...
A lecture about Darwin and the future of evolution. I gave this talk on Darwin's 200th birthday at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.
A talk at Downstate Medical Center. [Warning: brief gap in the audio around 13:00] For more information, visit carlzimmer.com
I'm happy to show off my new book, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, and to present the schedule for my book tour. For details, visit my web site.
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