Science Talk  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli,
Part 1  Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about E. coli,
the bacteria that are the subject of his new book Microcosm: E.
Coli and the New Science of Life. Web sites mentioned in this
episode include   Podcast Transcription  Steve: Welcome to
Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the
seven days starting October 8th, 2008, I'm Steve Mirsky. This
week on the podcast: Carl Zimmer with everything you ever wanted
to know about E. coli, and some things you probably didn't want
to know. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about the Nobel Prizes
awarded this week. First up Carl Zimmer joins us again. He is
the author of the new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New
Science of Life about the fascinating bacteria that live in each
of us and the fundamental role it's played in the history of
modern biology. I recorded a talk that Carl gave last month at
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. After
the talk, Carl and I h