Vernon Avila
Vernon L. Avila is a professor emeritus of biology at San Diego State University. He received his B. S. from the University of New Mexico, his M. A. from Northern Arizona University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Avila was a high school biology teacher for ten years and was nominated for the National Association of Biology Teachers' Outstanding Biology Teacher Award. He has also received special recognition from the American Institute of Biological Sciences as having one of the four most successful and effective general biology courses in the United States, and was selected by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, to write, construct, and evaluate the Graduate Record Examination Subject Area Test in Biology. Dr. Avila is also a reader for the Advanced Placement Biology Examination. He has served as an Expert Consultant for the National Cancer Institute and for the Division of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health, has had several articles published in professional journals, and has over 30 years’ experience in the teaching of introductory biology courses at the university level.
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Vernon Avila
Vernon L. Avila is a professor emeritus of biology at San Diego State University. He received his B. S. from the University of New Mexico, his M. A. from Northern Arizona University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Avila was a high school biology teacher for ten years and was nominated for the National Association of Biology Teachers' Outstanding Biology Teacher Award. He has also received special recognition from the American Institute of Biological Sciences as having one of the four most successful and effective general biology courses in the United States, and was selected by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, to write, construct, and evaluate the Graduate Record Examination Subject Area Test in Biology. Dr. Avila is also a reader for the Advanced Placement Biology Examination. He has served as an Expert Consultant for the National Cancer Institute and for the Division of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health, has had several articles published in professional journals, and has over 30 years’ experience in the teaching of introductory biology courses at the university level.
Vernon Avila
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Rhett Butler
Rhett Butler is the founder of Mongabay.com, a popular conservation and environmental science web site.
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Rhett Butler
Rhett Butler is the founder of Mongabay.com, a popular conservation and environmental science web site.
Rhett Butler
- Rhett Butler is the founder of Mongabay.com, a popular conservation and environmental science web site.
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Marchette Chute
Marchette Chute was born in Wayzata, Minnesota to an upper-middle-class family. Her father William Chute was a realtor, and her mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a hospital nurse. She attended Central High School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at the University of Minnesota. Over a seven-year period from 1946 through 1953, Chute published the trade biographies that established her reputation. Geoffrey Chaucer of England was published in 1946, Shakespeare of London in 1950, and Ben Jonson of Westminster in 1953. In each case, Chute attempted to write as an independent scholar with the ability to revisit and develop holistic portraits of her subjects based upon limited documentary evidence placed in a context of overall English social history.
Chute was seen by her colleagues as a significant writer of her day. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was elected president of the PEN American Center. She published a demicentennial history of the Center, PEN American Center: A History of the First 50 Years, in 1972. She also published a dual biography of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, Two Gentlemen, in 1959. She died in a Montclair, New Jersey nursing home on May 6, 1994. Her personal papers are now part of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection within the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Marchette Chute
Marchette Chute was born in Wayzata, Minnesota to an upper-middle-class family. Her father William Chute was a realtor, and her mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a hospital nurse. She attended Central High School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at the University of Minnesota. Over a seven-year period from 1946 through 1953, Chute published the trade biographies that established her reputation. Geoffrey Chaucer of England was published in 1946, Shakespeare of London in 1950, and Ben Jonson of Westminster in 1953. In each case, Chute attempted to write as an independent scholar with the ability to revisit and develop holistic portraits of her subjects based upon limited documentary evidence placed in a context of overall English social history. Chute was seen by her colleagues as a significant writer of her day. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was elected president of the PEN American Center. She published a demicentennial history of the Center, PEN American Center: A History of the First 50 Years, in 1972. She also published a dual biography of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, Two Gentlemen, in 1959. She died in a Montclair, New Jersey nursing home on May 6, 1994. Her personal papers are now part of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection within the University of Southern Mississippi. [Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] [Photo image source: Kenton County Public Library]
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David Crystal
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster in language and linguistics. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1941, he spent his early childhood in Holyhead, attended secondary school in Liverpool, and read English at University College London. After a research year at UCL's Survey of English Usage, he lectured at Bangor and then joined the new department of linguistics at Reading in 1965, where a decade later he became professor of linguistic science. He left the full-time university world in 1984 to work as an independent scholar. His writing takes in most areas of language study, his best-known authored books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Recent publications include The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary with his son Ben, The Disappearing Dictionary, and Making a Point: the Pernickety Story of English Punctuation. His editorial work has included acting as general editor of the Cambridge and Penguin families of general encyclopedias, and the online edition of the entire oeuvre of the missionary poet John Bradburne. An autobiographical memoir, Just a Phrase I'm Going Through, was published in 2009. He received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995, and became a member of the British Academy in 2001. He lives online at www.davidcrystal.com.
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David Crystal
David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster in language and linguistics. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1941, he spent his early childhood in Holyhead, attended secondary school in Liverpool, and read English at University College London. After a research year at UCL's Survey of English Usage, he lectured at Bangor and then joined the new department of linguistics at Reading in 1965, where a decade later he became professor of linguistic science. He left the full-time university world in 1984 to work as an independent scholar. His writing takes in most areas of language study, his best-known authored books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Recent publications include The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary with his son Ben, The Disappearing Dictionary, and Making a Point: the Pernickety Story of English Punctuation. His editorial work has included acting as general editor of the Cambridge and Penguin families of general encyclopedias, and the online edition of the entire oeuvre of the missionary poet John Bradburne. An autobiographical memoir, Just a Phrase I'm Going Through, was published in 2009. He received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995, and became a member of the British Academy in 2001. He lives online at www.davidcrystal.com.
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Temma Ehrenfeld
Temma Ehrenfeld is a ghostwriter and journalist in New York. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Reuters, and Fortune and her poetry, short stories and personal essays in many journals. She blogs at Psychology Today and is shopping her first novel, The Wizard of Kew Gardens.
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Temma Ehrenfeld
Temma Ehrenfeld is a ghostwriter and journalist in New York. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Reuters, and Fortune and her poetry, short stories and personal essays in many journals. She blogs at Psychology Today and is shopping her first novel, The Wizard of Kew Gardens.
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Jason Elliot
Jason Elliot, described by Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing as 'that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places', has written award-winning books of both fiction and non-fiction.
An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan (Picador, 2000), a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, recounts his visits to Afghanistan first as a clandestine guest of Mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation of the country and later during the rise of the Taliban in the late 1990s. Colin Thubron called it 'vividly evocative, courageous and self-aware'.
His Mirrors of the Invisible, Journeys in Iran (Picador, 2006), 'one of the most fluent, original and sublime appreciations of Islamic culture' (Times Literary Supplement) and ‘a work of profound thought, passion and ambition’ is a rare and timely portrait of another much-misunderstood culture seldom explored by outsiders.
He has been described as 'a traveller of the old school: untethered to an itinerary, eager to be led astray, and as ardent an observer of the experience of travelling as of his destination' (New Yorker).
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Jason Elliot
Jason Elliot, described by Nobel Prize Laureate Doris Lessing as 'that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places', has written award-winning books of both fiction and non-fiction. An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan (Picador, 2000), a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, recounts his visits to Afghanistan first as a clandestine guest of Mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation of the country and later during the rise of the Taliban in the late 1990s. Colin Thubron called it 'vividly evocative, courageous and self-aware'. His Mirrors of the Invisible, Journeys in Iran (Picador, 2006), 'one of the most fluent, original and sublime appreciations of Islamic culture' (Times Literary Supplement) and ‘a work of profound thought, passion and ambition’ is a rare and timely portrait of another much-misunderstood culture seldom explored by outsiders. He has been described as 'a traveller of the old school: untethered to an itinerary, eager to be led astray, and as ardent an observer of the experience of travelling as of his destination' (New Yorker).
Jason Elliot
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Adam Frank
Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester where his group focuses on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on the late stages of stellar evolution and the evolution of exoplanets. His popular writing has focused on issues of science in its cultural context, including issues of science and religion, the role of technology in the human experience of time, and climate change as an astrobiological phenomena. He is a co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog, a regular commentator on All Things Considered, and contributor to The New York Times. His books include The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang. His newest book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and Our Fate on Earth will be published next year.
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Adam Frank
Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester where his group focuses on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on the late stages of stellar evolution and the evolution of exoplanets. His popular writing has focused on issues of science in its cultural context, including issues of science and religion, the role of technology in the human experience of time, and climate change as an astrobiological phenomena. He is a co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog, a regular commentator on All Things Considered, and contributor to The New York Times. His books include The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate and About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang. His newest book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and Our Fate on Earth will be published next year.
Adam Frank
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Ron Friedman
Ron Friedman, Ph.D., is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. His new book, The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace, has been described as “stunning,” “eye-opening,” and “a contemporary classic,” and praised by best-selling authors Daniel Pink, David Allen, Marshall Goldsmith, Susan Cain, and Adam Grant.
Dr. Friedman has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, political leaders, and the world’s leading non-profits. Popular accounts of his research have appeared on NPR and in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, as well as magazines such as Men’s Health, Shape, and Allure.
He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, CNN, Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today.
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Ron Friedman
Ron Friedman, Ph.D., is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. His new book, The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace, has been described as “stunning,” “eye-opening,” and “a contemporary classic,” and praised by best-selling authors Daniel Pink, David Allen, Marshall Goldsmith, Susan Cain, and Adam Grant. Dr. Friedman has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, political leaders, and the world’s leading non-profits. Popular accounts of his research have appeared on NPR and in major newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, as well as magazines such as Men’s Health, Shape, and Allure. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, CNN, Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today.
Ron Friedman
- Ron Friedman, Ph.D., is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human motivation. His new book, The B...
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Héctor García
Héctor García was born in Spain in 1981. After earning his MS in software engineering and working for CERN in Switzerland, he moved to Japan, where he worked on voice recognition software and consumer internet technology companies. As a hobby he started blogging and his personal blog became one of the top 5 blogs in Spain with an average of a million visits per months. He was chosen as the Best Spanish-language blog in 2004 . He has also published three books about Japanese culture in Spain. One of them, A Geek in Japan, has been translated to eight languages and sold over 200.000 copies all over the world. He has been now 12 years living in Tokyo and plans to continue writing and learning more about Japanese culture.
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Héctor García
Héctor García was born in Spain in 1981. After earning his MS in software engineering and working for CERN in Switzerland, he moved to Japan, where he worked on voice recognition software and consumer internet technology companies. As a hobby he started blogging and his personal blog became one of the top 5 blogs in Spain with an average of a million visits per months. He was chosen as the Best Spanish-language blog in 2004 . He has also published three books about Japanese culture in Spain. One of them, A Geek in Japan, has been translated to eight languages and sold over 200.000 copies all over the world. He has been now 12 years living in Tokyo and plans to continue writing and learning more about Japanese culture.
Héctor García
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Paul Garrett
Paul B. Garrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He is a linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching specializations include creole languages and cultures, particularly those of the Caribbean region; language socialization; ideologies of language; the sociocultural dynamics of language contact; and the political economy of language. Among his other interests are interspecies communication, particularly between humans and wildlife; and the historical, political, and ideological dimensions of transgressive language (such as cursing, swearing, insults, slurs, gaffes, libel, blasphemy, "hate speech," etc.). He served for six years (2011–2016) as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, a publication of the American Anthropological Association; and he has served since 2011 on the editorial board of the Oxford University Press book series Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language.
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Paul Garrett
Paul B. Garrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). He is a linguistic anthropologist whose research and teaching specializations include creole languages and cultures, particularly those of the Caribbean region; language socialization; ideologies of language; the sociocultural dynamics of language contact; and the political economy of language. Among his other interests are interspecies communication, particularly between humans and wildlife; and the historical, political, and ideological dimensions of transgressive language (such as cursing, swearing, insults, slurs, gaffes, libel, blasphemy, "hate speech," etc.). He served for six years (2011–2016) as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, a publication of the American Anthropological Association; and he has served since 2011 on the editorial board of the Oxford University Press book series Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language.
Paul Garrett
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Mary R. Lefkowitz
Mary Lefkowitz, a graduate of Wellesley College and Radcliffe College (Harvard University), taught at Wellesley College from 1960-2005. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, several honorary degrees, and a National Humanities Medal “for outstanding excellence in scholarship and teaching.” An Honorary Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, she is a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
Dr. Lefkowitz has written articles and books about the ancient Greek poet Pindar, women in Greek and Roman antiquity, and fictional biography and history in the ancient world. Her books Greek Gods, Human Lives (Yale Univ. Press, 2003) and Euripides and the Gods (2016) seek to restore to the gods to their ever-important role in ancient narratives. She is known outside of the academic world for Not Out of Africa (Basic Books, 1997), her best-selling analysis of contemporary fictions about ancient history, and Black Athena Revisited (which she co-edited with Guy M. Rogers). Dr. Lefkowitz has appeared on national radio talk shows, on CBS television’s 60 Minutes, and was the subject of interviews in The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. History Lesson (Yale Univ. Press, 2008), her book about the intellectual issues raised by the Black Athena controversy, is “A clear-eyed look at the perils--and promise--of contemporary academic life” (Booklist).
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Mary R. Lefkowitz
Mary Lefkowitz, a graduate of Wellesley College and Radcliffe College (Harvard University), taught at Wellesley College from 1960-2005. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, several honorary degrees, and a National Humanities Medal “for outstanding excellence in scholarship and teaching.” An Honorary Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, she is a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Dr. Lefkowitz has written articles and books about the ancient Greek poet Pindar, women in Greek and Roman antiquity, and fictional biography and history in the ancient world. Her books Greek Gods, Human Lives (Yale Univ. Press, 2003) and Euripides and the Gods (2016) seek to restore to the gods to their ever-important role in ancient narratives. She is known outside of the academic world for Not Out of Africa (Basic Books, 1997), her best-selling analysis of contemporary fictions about ancient history, and Black Athena Revisited (which she co-edited with Guy M. Rogers). Dr. Lefkowitz has appeared on national radio talk shows, on CBS television’s 60 Minutes, and was the subject of interviews in The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. History Lesson (Yale Univ. Press, 2008), her book about the intellectual issues raised by the Black Athena controversy, is “A clear-eyed look at the perils--and promise--of contemporary academic life” (Booklist).
Mary R. Lefkowitz
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Linda Marsa
Linda Marsa is an award-winning investigative journalist and a contributing editor at Discover who has covered medicine, health and science for more than three decades. She is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves (Rodale, 2013), which the New York Times called “gripping to read.” Fevered was awarded an honorable mention as best nonfiction book of the year in 2014 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
A popular speaker, she has lectured widely on climate change at major universities, leading environmental organizations, public health institutes and for the general audiences. She has also been an instructor at The Writer’s Program at UCLA Extension for more than two decades and was named Teacher of the Year in 1999.
Her Discover story, “Going to Extremes,” about climate change in Australia, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Science Writing, 2012. She is also the author of Prescriptions for Profits, and she has written for numerous other publications, including Newsweek, Playboy, Parade, U.S. News & World Report, Mother Jones, High Country Times, Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard, Aeon, Take Part and Reader’s Digest.
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Linda Marsa
Linda Marsa is an award-winning investigative journalist and a contributing editor at Discover who has covered medicine, health and science for more than three decades. She is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves (Rodale, 2013), which the New York Times called “gripping to read.” Fevered was awarded an honorable mention as best nonfiction book of the year in 2014 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. A popular speaker, she has lectured widely on climate change at major universities, leading environmental organizations, public health institutes and for the general audiences. She has also been an instructor at The Writer’s Program at UCLA Extension for more than two decades and was named Teacher of the Year in 1999. Her Discover story, “Going to Extremes,” about climate change in Australia, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Science Writing, 2012. She is also the author of Prescriptions for Profits, and she has written for numerous other publications, including Newsweek, Playboy, Parade, U.S. News & World Report, Mother Jones, High Country Times, Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard, Aeon, Take Part and Reader’s Digest.
Linda Marsa
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John C. Mowen
John is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. John received a BA in psychology from The College of William and Mary. After his military service he received a PhD in social psychology from Arizona State University, where he also did post-doctoral work in marketing. John is a Fellow and past-president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He and his colleagues have published over 90 refereed articles in the fields of managerial/consumer decision-making and he has published a number of books; The Art of High-Stakes Decision Making (John Wiley) and Judgment Calls: High Stakes Decisions in a Risky World (Simon & Schuster) were targeted to the trade market. The 3M Model of Motivation and Personality (Kluwer Academic Press) presented a new theory of motivation and personality to the academic community. In addition, six editions of his textbook, Consumer Behavior, were published. John is also a digital artist whose work has been shown in multiple galleries and exhibitions.
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John C. Mowen
John is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. John received a BA in psychology from The College of William and Mary. After his military service he received a PhD in social psychology from Arizona State University, where he also did post-doctoral work in marketing. John is a Fellow and past-president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He and his colleagues have published over 90 refereed articles in the fields of managerial/consumer decision-making and he has published a number of books; The Art of High-Stakes Decision Making (John Wiley) and Judgment Calls: High Stakes Decisions in a Risky World (Simon & Schuster) were targeted to the trade market. The 3M Model of Motivation and Personality (Kluwer Academic Press) presented a new theory of motivation and personality to the academic community. In addition, six editions of his textbook, Consumer Behavior, were published. John is also a digital artist whose work has been shown in multiple galleries and exhibitions.
John C. Mowen
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Anne Mullens
Anne Mullens is an award-winning Canadian freelance journalist, editor and author who specialises in health issues. She has a Bachelor of Science (University of Guelph, 1980) and a Bachelor of Journalism (Carleton University, 1982). From 1982 to 1992 she was The Vancouver Sun newspaper’s medical reporter. She then became a freelance writer, writing for national and international magazines, particularly Reader's Digest, as well as for government and health organization clients. From 2009 to 2013, she became managing editor of Boulevard Magazine, a Victoria city and lifestyle magazine. In the spring of 2013 she returned to freelance health writing and started her own health communications company, Santé Communications Group, in Victoria BC. She is the author of two health books. Her second book “Timely Death" (Knopf, 1996) won a Canadian national book award for Creative Non-Fiction. During her career she has won more than a dozen Canadian awards for her writing and reporting.
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Anne Mullens
Anne Mullens is an award-winning Canadian freelance journalist, editor and author who specialises in health issues. She has a Bachelor of Science (University of Guelph, 1980) and a Bachelor of Journalism (Carleton University, 1982). From 1982 to 1992 she was The Vancouver Sun newspaper’s medical reporter. She then became a freelance writer, writing for national and international magazines, particularly Reader's Digest, as well as for government and health organization clients. From 2009 to 2013, she became managing editor of Boulevard Magazine, a Victoria city and lifestyle magazine. In the spring of 2013 she returned to freelance health writing and started her own health communications company, Santé Communications Group, in Victoria BC. She is the author of two health books. Her second book “Timely Death" (Knopf, 1996) won a Canadian national book award for Creative Non-Fiction. During her career she has won more than a dozen Canadian awards for her writing and reporting.
Anne Mullens
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Richard E. Nisbett
Richard Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Culture and Cognition Program. He studies how laypeople reason and make inferences about the world. He has shown both that inferences can be seriously flawed and that they are surprisingly subject to correction by training in statistical and probabilistic reasoning, scientific methodology, and cost-benefit analysis. Other work compares East Asians with Westerners. He finds that Westerners reason analytically, emphasizing rules and categorization whereas East Asians reason holistically, focusing broadly on context and attending to similarities and relationships. His
most recent work is on the nature of intelligence and its modifiability, showing that traditional views of intelligence are far too pessimistic about how much intelligence can be improved. He has also studied the “culture of honor” of the U.S. South which lies behind the greater violence of that region.
He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Richard E. Nisbett
Richard Nisbett is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Culture and Cognition Program. He studies how laypeople reason and make inferences about the world. He has shown both that inferences can be seriously flawed and that they are surprisingly subject to correction by training in statistical and probabilistic reasoning, scientific methodology, and cost-benefit analysis. Other work compares East Asians with Westerners. He finds that Westerners reason analytically, emphasizing rules and categorization whereas East Asians reason holistically, focusing broadly on context and attending to similarities and relationships. His most recent work is on the nature of intelligence and its modifiability, showing that traditional views of intelligence are far too pessimistic about how much intelligence can be improved. He has also studied the “culture of honor” of the U.S. South which lies behind the greater violence of that region. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Richard E. Nisbett
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Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an award-winning author, co-author, contributor, and editor of over thirty books translated into some thirteen languages. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Skeptical Inquirer, Wired, Cabinet, Natural History, The Smithsonian, The Sciences, and Pabular, among others. His coauthored What is Life? was called “A masterpiece of science writing” in Orion magazine, and included on a list of “Mind-Altering Masterpieces” by Utne Reader. His most recent work, Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old, and What it Means for Staying Young, co-authored with theoretical physicist and aging expert Josh Mitteldorf, presents detailed evidence for a new theory of aging that replaces the evidence-impoverished (but generally accepted) free radical wear-and-tear theory, with an evidence-rich view that sees aging as an evolved adaptation against overpopulation. His other books include Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, Cosmic Apprentice, Biospheres, Origins of Sex, What is Life?, What is Sex?, Death and Sex, Dazzle Gradually, and Into the Cool. Dorion is the eldest son of biologist Lynn Margulis and Carl Sagan. Dorion's essays and stories have appeared in Cabinet, Wired, and The New York Times, among others. ( Photo Credit: K. Kendall )
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Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan is an award-winning author, co-author, contributor, and editor of over thirty books translated into some thirteen languages. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Skeptical Inquirer, Wired, Cabinet, Natural History, The Smithsonian, The Sciences, and Pabular, among others. His coauthored What is Life? was called “A masterpiece of science writing” in Orion magazine, and included on a list of “Mind-Altering Masterpieces” by Utne Reader. His most recent work, Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old, and What it Means for Staying Young, co-authored with theoretical physicist and aging expert Josh Mitteldorf, presents detailed evidence for a new theory of aging that replaces the evidence-impoverished (but generally accepted) free radical wear-and-tear theory, with an evidence-rich view that sees aging as an evolved adaptation against overpopulation. His other books include Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, Cosmic Apprentice, Biospheres, Origins of Sex, What is Life?, What is Sex?, Death and Sex, Dazzle Gradually, and Into the Cool. Dorion is the eldest son of biologist Lynn Margulis and Carl Sagan. Dorion's essays and stories have appeared in Cabinet, Wired, and The New York Times, among others. ( Photo Credit: K. Kendall )
Dorion Sagan
- Dorion Sagan is an award-winning author, co-author, contributor, and editor of over thirty books translated into some...
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential living philosopher. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2014 he was third on the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute’s ranking of Global Thought Leaders. He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics, and for his writing on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and, most recently, The Most Good You Can Do. His works have appeared in more than 25 languages.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined that position with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is married, with three daughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour.
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential living philosopher. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2014 he was third on the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute’s ranking of Global Thought Leaders. He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics, and for his writing on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), The Life You Can Save, The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), and, most recently, The Most Good You Can Do. His works have appeared in more than 25 languages. Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined that position with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is married, with three daughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour.
Peter Singer
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Emily Sohn
Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, who writes mostly about health, science, adventure and the environment. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Nature, NPR, Discovery News and many other publications.
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Emily Sohn
Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, who writes mostly about health, science, adventure and the environment. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Nature, NPR, Discovery News and many other publications.
Emily Sohn
- Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, who writes mostly about health, science, adventure and the envir...
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George Szpiro
I am a mathematical economist-turned journalist. Here are the highlights of my education and professional career:
· 1972 M.A. (math. and physics), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
· 1975 MBA, Stanford University
· 1975-1982 Management consultant, McKinsey & Co, Zurich, Munich, London
· 1979-1984 Ph.D. (mathematical economics, finance), Hebrew University, Jerusalem
· 1984-1986 Assistant Prof. of Finance and Decision Sciences, Wharton School, U of Penn.
· 1986 Visiting Professor of Finance, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
· 1988 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Zürich
· 1986-1992 Lecturer in Finance, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
· 1992 — Correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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George Szpiro
I am a mathematical economist-turned journalist. Here are the highlights of my education and professional career: · 1972 M.A. (math. and physics), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich · 1975 MBA, Stanford University · 1975-1982 Management consultant, McKinsey & Co, Zurich, Munich, London · 1979-1984 Ph.D. (mathematical economics, finance), Hebrew University, Jerusalem · 1984-1986 Assistant Prof. of Finance and Decision Sciences, Wharton School, U of Penn. · 1986 Visiting Professor of Finance, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal · 1988 Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Zürich · 1986-1992 Lecturer in Finance, Hebrew University, Jerusalem · 1992 — Correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung
George Szpiro
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Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in social psychology. She is author, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me); her other books include Anger: The misunderstood emotion; The Mismeasure of Woman; and leading textbooks in psychology. She has written hundreds of articles and book reviews for publications including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in social psychology. She is author, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me); her other books include Anger: The misunderstood emotion; The Mismeasure of Woman; and leading textbooks in psychology. She has written hundreds of articles and book reviews for publications including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Carol Tavris
- Carol Tavris earned her Ph.D. in social psychology. She is author, with Elliot Aronson, of Mistakes Were Made (But No...
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Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality. For the last four years he has been included (this year at no. 62) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ His books include Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, and his latest book The Calm Center. His books have been published in 19 languages, while his articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including Philosophy Now, Tikkun, The Daily Express, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and others.
Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ Andrew Harvey has said of his work, ‘Its importance for our menacing times and for the transformation being birthed by them cannot be exaggerated.’ Steve’s new book ‘The Calm Center’ has just been published as an ‘Eckhart Tolle edition’ through New World Library.
Steve lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and three young children.
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Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality. For the last four years he has been included (this year at no. 62) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of the ‘100 most spiritually influential living people.’ His books include Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, and his latest book The Calm Center. His books have been published in 19 languages, while his articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including Philosophy Now, Tikkun, The Daily Express, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology and others. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ Andrew Harvey has said of his work, ‘Its importance for our menacing times and for the transformation being birthed by them cannot be exaggerated.’ Steve’s new book ‘The Calm Center’ has just been published as an ‘Eckhart Tolle edition’ through New World Library. Steve lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and three young children.
Steve Taylor
- Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling b...
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Katherine Tweed
Katherine Tweed is a freelance journalist focusing on clean energy issues including renewable energy, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency, smart home and regulatory innovation.
Her freelance work has appeared in a range of outlets, including Grentech Media, IEEE Spectrum, Scientific American, WebMD, Audubon Magazine and Scholastic’s MATH magazine. She has a master’s degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting from New York University. She is based in New York. You can follow her on Twitter @katherinetweed.
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Katherine Tweed
Katherine Tweed is a freelance journalist focusing on clean energy issues including renewable energy, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency, smart home and regulatory innovation. Her freelance work has appeared in a range of outlets, including Grentech Media, IEEE Spectrum, Scientific American, WebMD, Audubon Magazine and Scholastic’s MATH magazine. She has a master’s degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting from New York University. She is based in New York. You can follow her on Twitter @katherinetweed.
Katherine Tweed
- Katherine Tweed is a freelance journalist focusing on clean energy issues including renewable energy, distributed ene...
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Julie Zickefoose
Writer/artist Julie Zickefoose, author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect, is a Contributing Editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest. Julie loves to introduce people to birdwatching, and now leads excursions abroad. Because she believes birds to be the most vibrant vessels for the life force, painting baby birds as they grow has been her favorite project to date. Her new book, Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest was published in spring 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her blog, Julie Zickefoose on Blogspot, counts around 32,000 pageviews each month. She lives with her family on an 80-acre sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio.
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Julie Zickefoose
Writer/artist Julie Zickefoose, author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect, is a Contributing Editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest. Julie loves to introduce people to birdwatching, and now leads excursions abroad. Because she believes birds to be the most vibrant vessels for the life force, painting baby birds as they grow has been her favorite project to date. Her new book, Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest was published in spring 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her blog, Julie Zickefoose on Blogspot, counts around 32,000 pageviews each month. She lives with her family on an 80-acre sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio.
Julie Zickefoose
- Writer/artist Julie Zickefoose, author of Letters from Eden and The Bluebird Effect, is a Contributing Editor to Bird...
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