Carl Zimmer - New York Times science columnist
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Carl Zimmer is an award-winning science writer and New York Times columnist. A three-time winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\\u2019s journalism award, in 2021 Carl was a member of the team at The New York Times which won The Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this in-depth interview, Carl discusses the topic of his latest book \\u2013 \\u2018Life\\u2019s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive\\u2019 \\u2013 shedding light on why it is \\u201cvery difficult and may be impossible\\u201d to know precisely what life and death actually are; shares some of the problems that are caused by humans \\u201cwrongly making themselves the centre of any definition of life\\u201d, instead of realising that \\u201cthe vast majority of life is not like us\\u201d; and reflects on just how much the pandemic dominated his work for two years, and how people trusting the accuracy of Covid-19 coverage is quite literally a matter of life and death.
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