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See my cover story on malaria and evolution in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. A recent piece in the Boston Globe's Ideas section looks at how we think with our noses.

See my blog for musings and info on my book Superdove. Or check out coverage here :
"The Un-Bird" - New York Times Book Review
"Don't Pigeonhole Them" - USA Today
"Reassessing the Pigeon" - NPR's On Point
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I'm a freelance writer in Boston specializing in features, books, and research news about medicine, science, and nature. I'm the author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan...And the World, published in August 2008 by Smithsonian Books/Harper-Collins. I'm a contributing editor for Harvard Magazine, and my work has appeared in Body+Soul, MIT's Technology Review, Seed Magazine, the Improper Bostonian, Newsweek, Conservation Magazine, and other publications. I'm a former staff writer at Harvard Medical School's Focus and coauthor of two Harvard Medical School guides on nutrition, and a graduate of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. I've tackled topics from the inner workings of a synapse to the psychology of shopping, and my work follows the path of my curiosity. I look for stories that show the hidden meanings and paradoxes in our world.


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