{"id":11280,"date":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-tangled-bank-review-%e2%80%9cthe-best%e2%80%9d-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:26:38","slug":"new-tangled-bank-review-%e2%80%9cthe-best%e2%80%9d-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-tangled-bank-review-%e2%80%9cthe-best%e2%80%9d-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"New Tangled Bank Review: \u201cThe Best\u201d | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981519474?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0981519474\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03097_zimmercover220.jpg\" alt=\"zimmercover220.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0981519474?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0981519474\"><em>The Tangled Bank<\/em><\/a> just got <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifescied.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/9\/1\/22\">a great review<\/a> in <em>CBE-Life Sciences Education<\/em>, a journal from the American Society for Cell Biology about teaching science. Scientific journals roll out their reviews a lot more slowly than newspapers and magazines, but in this case, it was worth the wait. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.umn.edu\/bioprog\/staff\/moore\/\">Randy Moore<\/a>, a University of Minnesota biologist who has done great work in defense of the teaching of evolution, leaves me trying to decide which line I want to drop, blurb-like, onto my web site&hellip;<\/p><p><strong>&ldquo;The best textbook I&rsquo;ve seen for a nonmajors<sup> <\/sup>introductory biology course about evolution.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p><p>&hellip;or maybe&ndash;<strong><br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>&ldquo;<em>The Tangled Bank<\/em> is well-produced, up-to-date,<sup> <\/sup>readable, and exceptionally well illustrated. At no point does<sup> <\/sup>it falter.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p><p>or maybe the last line of the review&hellip;<\/p><p><strong>&ldquo;Read <em>The Tangled Bank.<\/em> You won&rsquo;t be disappointed.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p><p>Thanks for the embarrassment of riches.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03097_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MPMt_-rhqYTMPWhbKtWNpOeSl9k\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03097_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03097___MZ35ftYZw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03097_HyGjiAav02c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tangled Bank just got a great review in CBE-Life Sciences Education, a journal from the American Society for Cell Biology about teaching science. Scientific journals roll out their reviews a lot more slowly than newspapers and magazines, but in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-tangled-bank-review-%e2%80%9cthe-best%e2%80%9d-the-loom.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}