From Mind Reading to the Reading Mind
My latest feature article for Science News for Students explores how the brain reads and how the process can go wrong, either
If You Believe in Me, I’ll Believe in You
The latest issue of Muse magazine focuses on artificial intelligence. This topic is one of my absolute favorites to think and write
Microbes, Microbes, Everywhere!
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about the microbiome. My June article on Cool Jobs in forensics focused mostly on
Seven Books in One Month
I guess five articles in a few weeks doesn’t seem so impressive any more! I had seven books come out in August
Five Articles in Three Weeks
Apparently, I’ve been busy! In a span of three weeks, five of my articles came out on Science News for Students. June 8, 2017:
Robots and Cyborgs
Recently, I’ve written two articles for Science News for Students about robotics: Teaching robots right from wrong and Wired and weird: Meet the cyborg
A Love of Language and Letters
A very special article just came out in Muse magazine: “Communing with the Letter Spirits.” This piece is about Douglas Hofstadter’s Letter
Happy Halloween
Ever since I first learned that a fungus can turn ants into zombies, I’ve wanted to write about it. I finally got
Dinosaurs!
Hooray! Author copies of my most recent book arrived over the weekend: The Science of Dinosaurs, part of the Super Awesome Science
More Video Games
Well, I guess I’ve found my niche in children’s nonfiction: video games. My husband used to work as a software engineer on