Carl Zimmer on Defining Life

The Book Review

The New York Times

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Zimmer talks about "Life's Edge," and Paulina Bren discusses "The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free."

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0:00.0	How do we define life?
0:08.5	Carl Zimmer will join us to talk about his new book, Life's Edge, the search for what
0:13.5	it means to be alive.
0:16.1	What was so iconic and transformative about the Barbizon Hotel?
0:19.8	Paulina Brenn will be here to talk about the Barbizon, the hotel that's at Women Free.
0:25.2	Plus, my colleagues and I will talk about what we're reading.
0:28.8	This is the Book Review Podcast from The New York Times.
0:31.6	It's April 2nd.
0:32.6	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:42.7	Carl Zimmer joins us now.
0:43.7	He is a columnist for The New York Times and he is the author of many books.
0:47.6	He was last on the podcast for his book, She Has Her Mother's Laugh.
0:52.1	His new book is called Life's Edge, the search for what it means to be alive.
0:57.5	Carl, thanks for being here.
0:58.7	Thanks for having me.
0:59.7	All right.
1:00.7	Right now, you're kind of busy.
1:02.0	You've been reporting on coronavirus for the times.
1:06.0	What is that like?
1:08.4	It's kind of overwhelming.
1:11.2	I am kind of startled that the whole world wants to read what we at the Science Desk have
1:18.6	to write about this virus.
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