Dan Samorodnitsky - Sequencer

Patrons sitting in a library with headphones on listening to music

Members April 7, 2025 by dan

Your local library can free you from the streaming wars, if they can afford it

Prices are skyrocketing across the board for libraries, as books, ebooks, DVDs, and streaming get more and more expensive.

Soil with active bacterial and cyanobacterial communities, erupting from the soil in small protrusions.

February 25, 2025 by dan

Inside a reporter's notebook: giving the land a living skin

Read an unpublished excerpt from Carl Zimmer's new book Air-Borne.

A man tilting his head back with his mouth open about to sneeze

Members February 25, 2025 by dan in Interviews

Carl Zimmer is an air-head. You should be one too.

In his new book Air-Borne, the prolific science journalist traces investigations into aerobiology, from famous scientists like Louis Pasteur to the husband-and-wife duo who discovered how bacteria spread in the air, before being “thrown into oblivion”