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About me: I am a freelance science writer and the mathematics correspondent for Science News magazine. I have written for Nature, New Scientist, American Scientist, The Sciences, The Klarreich Occasionally and other publications. I live in Berkeley, California. A detailed list of my articles is available on my publications page. Many of my stories are available online only to magazine subscribers. If you are trying to get hold of an article that is not freely available online, contact me. From February to September 2002, I was Journalist in Residence at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. Before that, I spent six months in London as a reporter for Nature. I am a graduate of the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before becoming a science writer, I was a mathematician. I have a Ph.D. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and I was a professor at the University of Michigan for three years. If you are looking for one of my research papers, click here.

Selected Articles: Crafty Geometry Science News, 170, 411-413, December 23, 2006 The Mind of the Swarm Science News, 170, 347-349, November 26, 2006 Springfield Theory Science News, 169, 360, June 10, 2006 Pushing the lmiit Science News, 168, 296-298, November 8, 2005 Pieces of Numbers Science News, 167, 392-394, June 18, 2005 Navigating Celestial Currents Science News, 167, 250-252, April 16, 2005 Life on the Scales Science News, 167, 106-108, February 12, 2005 Go with the throw New Scientist, 25 December 2004 Take a Chance Science News, 166, 362-364, December 4, 2004 Rebuilding Rome New Scientist, 36-40, October 2, 2004 Oddballs Science News, 166, 219-221, October 2, 2004 Theorems for sale Science News, 165, 376-377, June 12, 2004 Toss out the toss-up Science News, 165, 131, February 28, 2004 The Mathematics of Strategy PNAS Classics Bookish math Science News, 164, 392-394, December 20, 2003 Best guess Science News, 164, 251-253, October 18, 2003 If it looks like a sphere Science News, 163, 378-380, June 14, 2003 The Bidding Game Beyond Discovery (a publication of the National Academy of Sciences) pdf Election selection Science News, 162, 280-282, November 2, 2002. Updated August 7, 2005.