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Carl Zimmer

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Carl Zimmer is the author of fourteen books about science. His latest book is Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive. Zimmer’s column Matter appears each week in the New York Times. His writing has earned a number of awards, including the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Evolution. His previous book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, won the 2019 National Academies Communication Award. The Guardian named it the best science book of 2018. Zimmer is a familiar voice on radio programs such as Radiolab and is professor adjunct at Yale University. He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom both a species of tapeworm and an asteroid have been named.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

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    • The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
    • Written by: Carl Zimmer
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
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    • Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
    • Written by: Carl Zimmer
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
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