SCIENCE for EVERYONE:
Lives in Science Writing
10 May 2004 Cornell University
Participants
Ivan Amato is author of Super Vision: A New View of Nature (2003), Stuff: The Materials the World is Made Of (1997), and other publications. He has worked for Science News, various American Chemical Society publications, the National Institute for Standards & Technology and he has had recent articles in Discover and Technology Review.
John Brockman is founder of Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency, and editor and publisher of www.edge.org.
William H. Calvin is a neurobiologist at the University of Washington. He is author of A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (2002), Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain (2000) (co-authored with Derek Bickerton), How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (1996), The River That Flows Uphill (1987) and a dozen others. Website
Robert Krulwich is a reporter for ABC News. He is a correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and Good Morning America. Website
Janna Levin is a cosmologist at Barnard College. She is author of How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space (2002). Website
Jonathan Miller is an independent reporter and producer for public radio. He is based in Ithaca, NY.
Meredith Small is an anthropologist at Cornell University. She is author of What's Love Got to Do With It? (1995), Our Babies, Ourselves (1998), Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Our Children (2001). She is also a freelance writer for Discover, Natural History, and other publications and she is a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. Website
Rick Weiss '74 is a reporter for the Washington Post. He reports on science and health and has written articles for a number of publications including the New York Times, Science, and Discover.
Updated 22 April