Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-11-06
Books mentioned on What Are The Weirdest Types Of Life? - Carl Zimmer - #394
Carl Zimmer is a science writer, journalist and an author who specialises in evolution, parasites, and heredity. Life is the thing which illuminates our corner of the universe.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Children of Ruin
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an imaginative science fiction novel that explores deep space exploration, alien encounters, and the evolutionary development of non-human intelligence, notably octopuses.
Discussed“and children of ruined by adrian tchaikovsky he's got these um these huge orbs that have got uh super intelligent octopuses in octopi and um they're flying these massive orbs of water around and um it's so it's such a funny idea”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Life's Edge
“and you know in in the book i actually write about you know some figures in history who who really tried to go out there to life's edge the title of the book and you know that edge where you're trying to figure out what divides life from non-life”