MWV Episode 39 - Carl Zimmer: Newspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media (30 min.)
b'On May 25th, 2010 science writer Carl Zimmer gave a keynote address at the American Society for Microbiology\'s General Meeting in San Diego, California. The presentation entitled \\u201cNewspapers, Blogs, and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds with Science in the Age of New Media\\u201d was given at the President\\u2019s Forum, \\u201cTelling the Story of Science.\\u201d Zimmer is a lecturer at Yale University, where he teaches writing about science and the environment. In addition to writing books, Zimmer contributes articles to the New York Times, as well as magazines including National Geographic, Time, Scientific American,Science, and Popular Science. He also writes an award-winning blog, The Loom. From 1994 to 1998 Zimmer was a senior editor at Discover, where he remains a contributing editor and writes a monthly column about the brain. Zimmer also hosts "Meet the Scientist," a podcast from the American Society for Microbiology.'