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Goodreads asked Carl Zimmer:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Carl Zimmer I think different writers will answer that differently, depending on the genre and subject matter they focus on. For me, one of the best things is just finding out how things work. I feel incredibly lucky that I can spend time with people exploring all sorts of aspects of our world, from genes to oceans to galaxies, and find out some of the things they're learning.

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I just read Microcosm and I particularly wondered, when you said salmonella is really e. coli, and that different e. coli strains have very different genomes- what defines e. coli as e. coli?

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

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