{"id":35069,"date":"2011-05-08T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/do-we-need-to-welcome-our-virus-overlords-my-first-guest-blog-post-at-university-of-chicago-press-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:43:35","slug":"do-we-need-to-welcome-our-virus-overlords-my-first-guest-blog-post-at-university-of-chicago-press-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/do-we-need-to-welcome-our-virus-overlords-my-first-guest-blog-post-at-university-of-chicago-press-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to welcome our virus overlords? My first guest blog post at University of Chicago Press | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the publication of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0226983358\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0226983358\">A Planet of Viruses<\/a>, the University of Chicago Press asked me to participate in a weekly series of conversations with experts on some of the themes I explore in the book. They&rsquo;ll be coming out each Friday in May. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2011\/05\/03\/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_w_ian.html\">First up<\/a> is an exchange between me and Ian Lipkin, a virus hunter at Columbia University and the subject of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/23\/science\/23prof.html\">this 2010 profile<\/a> I wrote for the New York Times. As if waving a piece of red meat before me, Lipkin wonders if viruses can alter our behavior. I then take the bait. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pressblog.uchicago.edu\/2011\/05\/03\/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_w_ian.html\">Check it out.<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9DFu61ZbUzFdN4TN-nZDAQ9ar_g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fb6c8_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/9DFu61ZbUzFdN4TN-nZDAQ9ar_g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/fb6c8_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\/fb6c8_WBlSrDNUVFI\" 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\/fb6c8_SXGhVgQdwqw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the publication of A Planet of Viruses, the University of Chicago Press asked me to participate in a weekly series of conversations with experts on some of the themes I explore in the book. They&rsquo;ll be coming out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/do-we-need-to-welcome-our-virus-overlords-my-first-guest-blog-post-at-university-of-chicago-press-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-35069","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\/35069"}],"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=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}