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The Body Politic
The deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: Are we organisms or living ecosystems?
Seed Magazine, April 2009

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"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've written for Harvard Magazine, Body+Soul, MIT's Technology Review, Harvard Medical School's Focus, 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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