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Contact
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    About 3 Quarks Daily
    About the Name
    Comments Policy
    About Mondays at 3QD
    About Our Prizes: The Quarks
    Winners of The Quarks
    Letters to 3QD readers
    Wikipedia Entry for 3QD
    Feature-length profile of 3QD
About the Editors
About Our Current Guest Columnists
About Our Occasional or Former Contributors

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Email: S. Abbas Raza, Founding Editor

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ABOUT 3 QUARKS DAILY

Six days a week (Tuesday through Sunday) the editors of 3 Quarks present eight to twelve interesting items from around the web each day, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating. We want to provide you with a one-stop intellectual surfing experience by culling good stuff from all over and putting it in one place. In other words, we are what has come to be known as an "aggregator" or "filter" site. And we try not to be afraid of challenging material.

As the Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon said, "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently." Well, we are here to try and help with that.

On Mondays, we present a magazine of original, previously unpublished writing by our editors as well as a number of guest columnists. Our writers are free to express their own opinions and we do not censor them in any way. Sometimes we agree with them and sometimes we don't. Please leave comments on posts or send an email with any suggestions/criticism. Thanks. Oh, and the National Endowment for the Arts interviewed Abbas about 3QD here.

ABOUT THE NAME

When Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig postulated the existence of three new subatomic particles in 1964, Gell-Mann decided to name them "quarks", an unusual word meaning "croak" or "caw" which James Joyce had used in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!" In present-day physics, there are more than three quarks, and some are said to have properties named strangeness and charm, which, we think, describe this weblog as well. We have also used the name to symbolize our connections to science, art, and literature; and because we mistakenly thought it short and memorable.

COMMENTS POLICY

We don't really have a strict comments policy but reserve the right to delete any comments (without explanation—we do not have the time) that we find either abusive or obscene or threatening or offensive or inappropriate in some other way or even just irrelevant to the post itself. Repeat offenders will be blocked from commenting. In general, we tend to agree with Sean Carroll's sentiments at Cosmic Variance which you can see here. Also, please read a note to our readers about comments here.

ABOUT MONDAYS AT 3QD

Though we are a filter blog on all other days, on Mondays we have only original writing by our editors and guest columnists. All the Monday columns are conveniently collected by author's last name here for your browsing pleasure.

Each of us writes on any subject we wish, and there are no length restrictions. Look for these on Mondays.

Also, while we normally post one video each day, on Sundays we have three or four videos.

There is much more information about each of the editors and current columnists below, and also about former and/or occasional columnists.

ABOUT THE 3QD PRIZES: THE QUARKS

In the summer of 2009, we decided to start awarding four prizes every year in the respective areas of Science, Philosophy, Politics, and Arts & Literature for the best blog post in those fields. Here's how it works:

Starting in June, 2009, the prizes are awarded on the two solstices and the two equinoxes every year. So, we will announce the winner of the science prize on June 21, the philosophy prize on September 22, the politics prize on December 21, and the arts & literature prize on March 20, 2010.

About a month before the prize is to be announced we will solicit nominations of blog entries from our readers. The nominating period will last approximately one to two weeks. At the end of this time, we will open up the process to voting by our readers. After this period, we will take the top twenty voted-for nominees, and the four main daily editors of 3 Quarks Daily (Abbas Raza, Robin Varghese, Morgan Meis, and Azra Raza) will select six finalists from these, plus they may also add up to three wildcard entries of their own choosing. And finally, a well-known intellectual from the field will pick the winner, runner up, and third place finisher from these finalists, and will write some short comments on the winning entries.

Just for fun, the first place award will be called the "Top Quark," and will include a cash prize of one thousand dollars; the second place prize, the "Strange Quark," will include a cash prize of three hundred dollars; and the third place winner will get the honor of winning the "Charm Quark," along with two hundred dollars.

WINNERS OF THE 3QD PRIZES

2015 Philosophy Prize
—judged by John Collins

2015 Science Prize
—judged by Nick Lane

2015 Arts & Literature Prize
—judged by Jonathan Kramnick

2015 Politics & Social Science Prize
—judged by Ken Roth

2014 Philosophy Prize
—judged by Huw Price

2014 Science Prize
—judged by Frans B. M. de Waal

2014 Arts & Literature Prize
—judged by Mohsin Hamid

2014 Politics & Social Science Prize
—judged by Mark Blyth

There were no prizes awarded in 2013.

2012 Philosophy Prize
—judged by Justin E. H. Smith

2012 Science Prize
—judged by Sean Carroll

2012 Arts & Literature Prize
—judged by Gish Jen

2011 Politics & Social Science Prize
—judged by Stephen M. Walt

2011 Philosophy Prize
—judged by Patricia Churchland

2011 Science Prize
—judged by Lisa Randall

2011 Arts & Literature Prize
—judged by Laila Lalami

2010 Politics Prize
—judged by Lewis H. Lapham

2010 Philosophy Prize
—judged by Akeel Bilgrami

2010 Science Prize
—judged by Richard Dawkins

2010 Arts & Literature Prize
—judged by Robert Pinsky

2009 Politics Prize
—judged by Tariq Ali

2009 Philosophy Prize
—judged by Daniel C. Dennett

2009 Science Prize
—judged by Steven Pinker

More information about the prizes can be found on the Quark Prizes page here.

LETTERS TO 3QD READERS

On the occasion of the 1,000th post at 3QD, Abbas wrote a letter to our readers which you can read here. And on the occasion of the 10,010th post at 3QD, he wrote another letter which you can read here. And here is a post about the 10th anniversary of 3QD.

EDITORS

	S. Abbas Raza Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Abbas has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering & computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate degree in philosophy from Columbia University. He lives with his wife, Margit Oberrauch, and their feline friend, Frederica Krueger, in the small, very beautiful city of Brixen in the Italian Alps. Email: s.abbas.raza.1 [at] gmail.com
	Robin Varghese Robin Varghese lives in New York City and is failing at his ambition to become a self-sufficient slacker, working instead on information policy issues. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where he studied Western European political economy. Email: [email protected]
	Morgan Meis Morgan has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was supposed to specialize in the Greeks and Romans but managed to write a dissertation on Walter Benjamin. Also, he is the president of an arts collective in Queens called Flux Factory. Also, he writes regularly for The Smart Set. Also, he is a senior consulting editor for the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. Also, he wins things. Email: morganmeis [at] gmail.com
	Azra Raza Azra was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and is an oncologist and research scientist by profession. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter Sheherzad. In these scoundrel times, she is convinced that the best way "to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world" is by promoting and publicizing the achievements of humanity in science, art, and literature. She is specially moved by fine poetry. Email: azra.raza [at] columbia [dot] edu
	Sughra Raza Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and inspite of Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: sraza1 [at] partners.org
	Jim Culleny Jim Culleny is the Poetry Editor of 3 Quarks Daily. After a stint in the navy, Jim received a BA in Art Education from William Paterson University and did graduate work in art at NYU. He taught art for several years in NJ public schools in Newark and Bergen County. Taught a little bit of everything else during two years at a remote residential community school in New York's Adirondacks. Was a social worker in Lower Manhattan before Soho was Soho. Made a living most of his life as a carpenter, designer, and builder. Did regular radio commentary for about 10 years during Morning Edition on WFCR.FM in Amherst, Mass. and some for NPR on All Things Considered. Played and sang his way from rockabilly to jazz in numberless band permutations over a period too long to believe. Came to poetry through songwriting. Has had work published in The Third Muse Poetry Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Penthouse Journal, and in 5-Minute Pieces, a chapbook published in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. He's also been writing a regular op-ed column for the past 12 years for the Greenfield Recorder along the beautiful Connecticut River, and is presently making a living as project manager for an Architectural firm. Jim lives with his wife, Pat, of 31 years, and his 17 year old granddaughter. He has three daughters and four other grandchildren. Email: jimculleny [at] comcast.net

CURRENT GUEST COLUMNISTS

In alphabetical order by last name:

	Humera Afridi Humera Afridi is a New York based writer of Pakistani origin. Her work has appeared in, amongst other publications, Granta, Guernica, The Journal of Postcolonial Studies and The New York Times. She is the recipient of a 2017 Gregory Millard Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts and is a Muslim Communities Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop. Humera earned an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. She has taught English in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Dubai; Texas and New York. Humera is writing a book about the life of Noor Inayat Khan. Email: humera.afridi [at] gmail.com
	Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad has a PhD in Computer Science. His research is at the intersection of network science, computational social science and machine learning. He was a researcher in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Cognitive Science at University of Minnesota where he did his PhD. He currently works as a Senior Data Scientist at Groupon and lives in Seattle. He is the founder and editor of the Islam and Science Fiction project that he has been running since 2005. He is also an artist who is fascinated by art at the intersection of multiple disciplines and cultures. Email: vonaurum [at] gmail.com Website: http://www.aurumahmad.com/
	Scott F. Aikin Scott F. Aikin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Epistemology and the Regress Problem (Routledge 2010). He is also co-author, with Robert B. Talisse, of Reasonable Atheism (Prometheus 2011). Email: scott.f.aikin [at] vanderbilt.edu
	Chris Bacas Over thirty-five years, saxophonist Chris Bacas has appeared at festivals all over the world, including the Nice, North Sea, Cork, Santiago, Montreal, Moers, Texaco, Annapolis, JVC New York, and Central PA Jazz Festivals. Chris began touring in 1983 working with the Glen Miller Band, The Tommy Dorsey Band, the Artie Shaw Band, and Buddy Rich's legendary Big Band until Rich's passing in 1987. Chris was a member of and recorded with the Smithsonian's Jazz Masterworks Orchestra under conductors David Baker and Gunther Schuller. In 1999 Chris was soloist in the Mary Lou Williams' "Mass" at the National Cathedral with Marian McPartland. Since 1989, Chris has appeared on over fifty recordings, including three ("Two Choices," "Leave a Message," and "Exits") as leader/co-leader. 2014 releases include "Geographia" with Voyage, "Views from the Inside" JC Sanford Orchestra. 2015 releases include "Pug Wife" 80-lb Pug, "Bolide" Peter Davenport, Certain Relationships" Art Lillard. 2016 brings new music from MJ12 and bassist Percy Jones. Email: bacas.chris [at] gmail.com
	Hari Balasubramanian Hari grew up in west and central India and studied production engineering his native state,Tamilnadu. In August 2000, he started graduate school in industrial engineering at Arizona State University. While in Arizona, he traveled the beautiful landscapes of the American Southwest at every opportunity; these travels also led him to many American Indian reservations. After a two year healthcare engineering research position at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota – a place as cold as Arizona was hot – he joined the engineering faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His academic website is here. He blogs on themes related to the humanities – travel, nature, literature, history – at Thirty Letters in My Name. Email: hari [dot] balasubramanian [at] gmail [dot] com
	Katalin Balog Katalin Balog received her BA in economics at the Karl Marx University in her native Budapest. After some years of working as an economist, she moved to the United States to study philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she got her Ph.D. in 1998. She taught philosophy at Cornell University, and then Yale University between 1998 and 2010. In 2010 she moved to Rutgers University/Newark where she is an associate professor of philosophy. Her primary areas of research are the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The problems that interest her most, the nature of consciousness, the self, and free will, lie at their intersection. She is currently completing a book tentatively entitled Through a Glass Darkly: Conceivability and the Mind-Body Problem in which she argues that the mind-body problem is impossible to resolve due to the special nature of our subjective, introspective concepts of mind. Her more recent work centers on the relationship between subjectivity, objectivity, and value. Email: kbalog [at] andromeda.rutgers.edu
	Bill Benzon Bill Benzon is an independent scholar working on mind and culture. He published Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture in 2001 and is on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York City. He has taught in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has published widely on literary analysis and theory, cultural evolution, cognition and brain theory, visual thinking, African-American music, and technical communication. He also plays trumpet and has shared the stage with Dizzy Gillespie, B.B. King, Frank Foster, Al Grey, and Nick Brignola. He blogs at New Savanna. Email: bbenzon [at] mindspring.com
	Libby Bishop Currently, I am Manager for Producer Relations, specializing in Research Ethics, at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex, in the United Kingdom. After getting my Ph.D. in Labour Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, I would never have predicted that I would become a manager of anything. In nearly every regard, I am not a typical economist, but I am true to type in my forecasting ability. It was my study of economics made me undyingly sceptical that markets can solve every social and economic problem we face (though I believe they can help in some domains). I have worked in a think tank, a tech company, a community college, and now a university. I write about data, ethics, and research methods. I try to garden, but a better description might be low-yield biological experimentation. I enjoy running, swimming, and dressage. Email: ebishop [at] essex.ac.uk
	Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow University, and former Regents Professor at the University of North Texas. His research has involved chemistry related to conditions on the early Earth and to the origins of life, and collaborations with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Sandia National Laboratories, and NASA’s Astrobiology Institute. His present interests include presenting science to a wide public, and combating creationism. He is a committee member of the British Centre for Science Education, and of the Society for a Secular Scotland. His most recent book, From Stars to Stalagmites, discusses aspects of chemistry in their historical and everyday contexts. Email: psbraterman [at] yahoo [dot] com
	Holly Case Holly Case is a historian at Brown University specializing in modern European history. Her book, Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during WWII, was published in May 2009. She is currently at work on a history of the emergence of "questions" - the Eastern question, Jewish question, Polish question, woman question, worker question, etc. - in the nineteenth century. For the academic year 2016/2017, she is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Email: Holly_Case [at] brown.edu
	Claire Chambers Claire Chambers is a lecturer at the University of York, where she teaches contemporary writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers and co-editor of Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora. She recently completed her third book, Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780−1988 (Palgrave: September 2015, forthcoming). This is a literary history of Muslim writing in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie’s publication of The Satanic Verses. Claire is now writing the sequel, Muslim Representations of Britain, 1988−Present. Her research has been supported by funding from HEFCE, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). She publishes widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text and Contemporary Women’s Writing, and is Co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Email: claire.chambers [at] york.ac.uk
	Samir Chopra Samir Chopra is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author or co-author of: Decoding Liberation: The promise of Free and Open Source Software; A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents; Eye on Cricket: Reflections on the Great Game; The 1965 India-Pakistan Air War; Brave New Pitch: The Evolution of Modern Cricket: Eagles over Bangladesh: The Indian Air Force in the 1971 Liberation War. His academic interests include pragmatism, Nietzsche, the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence, philosophy of law, the legal theory of artificial agents, and the politics and ethics of technology. Samir writes at samirchopra.com and is a blogger at The Cordon, ESPN-Cricinfo. Email: schopra [at] brooklyn.cuny.edu Twitter: @EyeOnThePitch
	Evert Cilliers Evert is a writer-performer. He grew up in apartheid South Africa and was raised to be an elite Afrikaner fascist. However, something went terribly wrong in his choice of teenage reading material, and between Darwin, Freud and Bertrand Russell, he ended up rejecting his nation, his religion and his family. When a riot of white cops vs. black protesters sent a teargas canister rolling into the lobby of an ad agency heʼd just started, he thought about emigrating. Then the apartheid regime banned his first play A Very Butch Libido, and he took off for the freedom of America. He continues writing plays, novels, poetry and songs, and attended the OʼNeill Playwrights Conference in 1993 with a play about torture. In advertising, his work on the Absolut Vodka campaign rocketed the brand from nowhere to the #1 import in four years; it's now the longest-running campaign in advertising history. He performed his one-man show How to Cook a Man on three continents. His rock group, the Dingbots, created the rock opera Kidd Radar, available on iTunes and CDBaby.com; their video The Obama Karma Song is on YouTube. A semi-legend on the 1990s slam poet scene, he won the 1997 National Poetry Slam, and starred in the PBS documentary Slammin'. His poetry is anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and collected in Suck My Poem from Lulu.com. He's working on his first musical, Cinderella and the Empire of Chocolate. Email: evertcilliers [at] yahoo.com
	Evan Edwards Evan Edwards lives in Chicago with his partner and their son, River. He is a graduate student in the philosophy program at DePaul University, where he is working on a dissertation on Walt Whitman’s understanding of the way that poetry can attune the body to recognize and evaluate the social and natural world. His research interests include early German Romanticism, Marxian political economy, American Transcendentalism, the reception of Hegel in America, and, more broadly speaking, the influence of 19th century German philosophy on American thought and ‘common sense.’ Email: evan.scott.edwards [at] gmail.com
	Sarah Firisen Sarah Firisen was born in London, England, lived for a number of years in New York City and now lives in Upstate New York with her husband Michael, two daughters Anya and Sasha, a dog Treetree and a cat Ernie. She has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Nottingham and a graduate degree in Philosophy from Columbia University. She has been working as a software developer for the past 15 years and is now working in the field of, and thinking and writing about, corporate Innovation. Sarah is, as of yet, an unpublished fiction writer and occasional freelance journalist who is currently finishing up her first novel. Email: sfirisen [at] syllogism [dot] com
	Dwight Furrow Dwight Furrow is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, California. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of California, Riverside in 1993 and specializes in the philosophy of food and wine, aesthetics, and ethics. Professor Furrow is the publisher and author of Edible Arts, a blog devoted to food and wine aesthetics. He is also the author of Ethics: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Reviving the Left: The Need to Restore Liberal Values in America, Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral Philosophy and many professional journal articles, op-ed pieces, and magazine articles on issues in ethics and political philosophy. He can be reached through the Edible Arts blog. Email: dwightfurrow [at] gmail [dot] com
	Shadab Zeest Hashmi Shadab Zeest Hashmi is a Pushcart nominee and winner of the San Diego Book Award for poetry for Baker of Tarifa— a book based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al Andalus (Muslim Spain). Her work has been included in the Seeds of Peace concert with the award-winning Al Andalus Ensemble, in the film Cruzando Lineas: Crossing Lines, and has been translated into Urdu by Pakistan Academy of Letters. She has presented her series of poems and photographs titled “Across the Windowsill” at San Diego Museum of Art. She has served as an editor for the annual Magee Park Anthology and the online journal MahMag World Literature and has taught as a visiting professor in the MFA program at San Diego State University. She has published her poetry and prose in numerous journals worldwide and represents Pakistan on UniVerse: A United Nations of Poetry. Email: shadabzh [at] gmail.com
	Elise Hempel Elise Hempel grew up in suburban Chicago and has worked as an editor, proofreader, copywriter and university English instructor. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, and The Midwest Quarterly, as well as in Ted Kooser's weekly column, American Life in Poetry. She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the winner of the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize in Poetry and has been a finalist or semi-finalist for several book awards. In 2014 her chapbook, Only Child, was published by Finishing Line Press, and her first full-length collection of poems, Second Rain, is available from Able Muse Press. She lives in central Illinois. Email: eese54 [at] gmail.com Website: thenormalneurotic.blogspot.com
	Sue Hubbard Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist, short-story writer and freelance critic living and working in London.Variously an antique dealer and a small holder she has written about the visual arts for twenty years for such publications as Time Out, The Independent on Sunday, The Independent and The New Statesman. She has published two collections of poetry, Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon) and Ghost Station (Salt) and appeared in the Oxford Poets series (Carcarnet). She was the Poetry Society's first ever Public Art Poet, responsible for London's largest public art poem at Waterloo station, and has published a novel, Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis) and a collection of short stories Rothko's Red (Salt). Her selected art writing is to be published next year by Damien Hirst's Other Criteria. Website: http://www.suehubbard.com Email: info [at] suehubbard.com
	Ahmed Humayun Ahmed lives in Washington, D.C. where he works on foreign policy issues. He has led a global conflict research program at Georgetown University, evaluated international governance and development projects in South Asia, and conducted field work on political Islam. Born in Maryland, he grew up in Karachi before obtaining a B.A. from Georgetown University, where he received the Nevils Medal for excellence in diplomatic history, and an M.A. in international relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Email: ahmed.a.humayun [at] gmail.com
	Tasneem Zehra Husain Tasneem Zehra Husain is a string theorist, writer and educator. She received her PhD in theoretical physics at Stockholm University, and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University. Tasneem is fascinated by scientific theories, how we engage with them, and how they change us. She explores these themes in her fiction and nonfiction writing, her talks for students and lay audiences, and the workshops she conducts for science teachers. Tasneem's upcoming popular science novel Only The Longest Threads, [Paul Dry Books, 2014] reimagines critical moments in history when new scientific theories redefined our understanding not only of the universe, but also our place in it. Website: http://www.tasneemzehrahusain.com/ Email: tasneem.zehra [at] gmail.com
	Ashutosh Jogalekar Ashutosh (Ash) Jogalekar is a scientist and science writer based in Boston, USA. He has been blogging at the “Curious Wavefunction” blog for more than ten years, and in this capacity has written for several organizations including Scientific American, Nature and the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates. His literary interests http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/specifically lie in the history and philosophy of science. Website: wavefunction.fieldofscience.com Email: curiouswavefunction [at] gmail.com
	Yohan John Yohan holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Neural Systems from Boston University, and currently works at BU as a postdoc. Before venturing into the labyrinth of neuroscience, he studied physics, receiving a B.Sc. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and an M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His early childhood was spent in New York, New Jersey and South Carolina, after which he and his family relocated to Coonoor, a little town nestled among the tea estates of the Nilgiri hills in southern India. His ruminations on the interplay between body, mind, and world can be found on his neuroscience blog, and his blog on metaphor. Email: yohan.john [at] gmail.com
	Rafiq Kathwari Rafiq Kathwari, winner of the The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2013, divides his time between New York, Dublin and Kashmir. Email: rafiqkathwari [at] gmail.com
	Richard King Richard King was born in the UK and now lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he writes for various rags and mags, including The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and New Matilda. He is the author of On Offence: The Politics of Indignation (Scribe, 2014) and the keeper of bloodycrossroads.com. Email: bingrj [at] yahoo.com.au
	Mathangi Krishnamurthy Mathangi Krishnamurthy is a socio-cultural anthropologist by training and is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Her research has focuses on the nightly lives of transnational customer service workers in Pune, India and she is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "1-800 Worlds". Her new projects follow practices of outsourcing in relation to gestational surrogacy. Her areas of interest include the anthropology of work, globalization, and affective labor. She blogs on www.mathangikrishnamurthy.com. Email: mathangi [at] gmail.com
	Jonathan Kujawa Jon was born and raised in Minnesota, learned mathematics at Gustavus Adolphus College, in Budapest, and finally earned his PhD at the University of Oregon. After visiting positions at the Universities of Toronto and Georgia, he's now on the faculty at the University of Oklahoma. He thinks it a shame how badly math fares in the modern educational-industrial complex and occasionally tries to do something about it when not indulging his other interests. Email: jonkujawa [at] gmail.com
	Misha Lepetic Misha Lepetic is a consultant and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, energy and social venture, with current interests in urban design and food policy. A BA in Music from Swarthmore College led to several years of professional DJing in South America, whereas an MS in Technology Management from Columbia University has resulted in less exciting but perhaps more productive pursuits. Lately, his idea of an exciting Friday night has been parsing complex compounds in classical Sanskrit. Email: misha.lepetic [at] gmail.com
	Michael Liss Michael is an attorney in New York, and the creator of Syncopated Politics, a blog focusing on the intersection of history and politics (with occasional side-trips to Supreme Court rulings, economic conferences, films, and opera). He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (Political Science) and Fordham University Law School. He is fortunate enough to have married brilliantly and has two endlessly fascinating children, about whom he talks far too much. Email: mlissnyc [at] gmail.com Twitter: @SyncPol
	Dave Maier Dave Maier spent many years as a radio DJ, but after even public radio turned hostile to esoteric music, he left to study philosophy at Columbia. Now, after earning a Ph. D. in the subject, he spends far too much time reading and not nearly enough time writing. He blogs, or has blogged, at duckrabbit.blogspot.com, where at least there is some good stuff in the archives. Email: duck1887 [at] hotmail.com
	Ali Minai Ali Minai is Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computing Systems and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Faculty at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on complex adaptive systems, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He has co-edited several books, including Conflict and Complexity: Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence (Springer, 2015). He is currently President of the International Neural Network Society. He is interested in history, science, art, poetry, cricket and science fiction - not necessarily in that order. A collection of his Urdu poetry was published in 2005. Email: minaiaa [at] gmail.com
	Maniza Naqvi Maniza Naqvi writes fiction. Her novels are: Mass Transit (OUP, Karachi, 1998); On Air (OUP, Karachi, 2000); Stay With Me (SAMA, Karachi 2004; Tara Press, India 2005); A Matter of Detail (SAMA, 2008; Tara Press, 2008); Sarajevo Saturdays (SAMA, 2009). Her short story "An Impossible Shade of Home Brew" is included in the anthology And then the World Changed (Feminst Press, 2008). Her short story "A Brief Acquaintaince" is included in Neither Night Nor Day (Harper Collins, 2007). Email: manizanaqvi195 [at] hotmail.com
	Mara Naselli Mara Naselli is an editor and writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She teaches manuscript development at the University of Chicago Graham School. She has a husband, two small children, two horses, and a cat. Email: mara.naselli [at] gmail.com
	Paul North Paul North teaches literature and critical theory at Yale, and has written two books: The Problem of Distraction and The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation. Email: p.north [at] yale.edu
	Leanne Ogasawara Born and raised in Los Angeles, Leanne Ogasawara studied philosophy with the great Hubert Dreyfus at U.C Berkeley and Japanese Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Where has the time gone? She spent most of the past twenty years in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan where she worked as a freelance Japanese translator and sometimes writer and student of Tea. Now, back in LA, she still loves traveling –though mostly in her imagination via books, art and music. Blog: www.tangdynastytimes.com Email: leanne [at] gol.com
	Carl Pierer Carl Pierer is an undergraduate student in Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. After working for a year with the Maison de la Culture Yiddish – Bibliothèque Medem in Paris, he is now interested in languages, mathematics and all matters philosophical and logical. Email: c(dot)pierer(at)gmx(dot)ch
	Daniel Ranard Daniel Ranard is currently a PhD student in theoretical physics at Stanford University. His favorite smart people are Einstein and Dostoevsky. Email: danranard [at] gmail.com
	Jalees Rehman Jalees is a German with Pakistani roots. He currently lives in the USA and spent some of his childhood in Nigeria. He lives in a state of perpetual confusion and enjoys talking to people who are also confused. When he is not reading books, Jalees works as a stem cell biologist and as a physician at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He regularly blogs about science at The Next Regeneration and about a variety of topics on his personal blog Fragments of Truth. Email: jalees.rehman [at] gmail.com
	Tamuira Reid Tamuira Reid is a writer and educator living in New York City. Her first feature-length screenplay, Luna’s Highway, was recently optioned by Cynthia Phillips & Co. (San Francisco/Los Angeles). The script earned her a 2010 Finalist placement in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition and a 2010 Semifinalist placement in The Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, sponsored by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Tamuira taught screenwriting as a guest faculty member at the Global Social Change Film Festival and Institute in 2011, in Bali, Indonesia, and again in 2012 in New Orleans. Currently, she teaches writing full-time in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies Program. She is now beginning work on a book-length collection of essays on single parenting in NYC. Email: tamuira.reid [at] nyu.edu
	Akim Reinhardt Akim Reinhardt is an associate professor of History at Towson University in Maryland. Born and raised in the Bronx, he has also lived in Michigan, Nebraska, and Arizona. He currently resides in a Baltimore row home that he shares with a very old but surprisingly resilient cat. He is the author of Ruling Pine Ridge (2007) and blogs regularly at ThePublicProfessor.com. Email: yankeeslim [at] gmail.com
	Brooks Riley Brooks Riley, director, producer, film critic, editor and screenwriter, is a former Senior Editor of Film Comment magazine and former film critic for WNYC-TV. She has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Phoenix, Opera News and The Washington Post. She also worked for Jean‐Luc Godard as producer at Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios. She was Executive Producer on a number of films, including Mee-Shee the Water Giant, Puckoon, and Führer Ex. She has directed 10 opera productions for TV and DVD, including Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung from the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar and the Israeli Opera Festival’s Aida in Masada. Email: brooks.r [at] gmx.de
	Max Sirak Max is neutral-good and lives tucked away in the Colorado Rockies - where the sky is big and the stars are bright. Originally from Canton, Ohio, he got his liberal arts degree from Indiana University in 2003. He’s a writer and co-hosts the podcast, Ignorant and Uninformed (which you should totally check out…unless you’re easily offended). Max spent his 20’s bartending, waiting tables, and filling his passport from cover to cover. And, on Wednesday nights, he and his friends save the world with the help of their trusty 20-sided dice. Email: rmsirak [at] gmail.com
	Genese Sodikoff Genese Sodikoff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. She completed her PhD at the University of Michigan after having spent a couple of years in Madagascar doing fieldwork, and, before that, a couple of years in the Comoro Islands as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She has done research on rain forest conservation and low-wage labor, human-animal relations, and biotic and cultural extinction. Her books include Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere, and The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death. She is learning now about epidemiology and launching a new project in Madagascar on environmental change and zoonosis, disease that jumps from animals to humans. Email: sodikoff [at] andromeda [dot] rutgers [dot] edu
	Robert B. Talisse Robert B. Talisse is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Democracy and Moral Conflict (Cambridge 2009). He is co-author, with Scott F. Aikin, of Reasonable Atheism (Prometheus 2011). Email: robert.talisse [at] vanderbilt.edu
	Katrin Trüstedt Katrin Trüstedt lives in Berlin and teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Erfurt. In her teaching and academic writing, she deals with questions of law and literature, comedy and tragedy, Shakespeare and Joyce, Kafka and Arendt. Her next book addresses figures of legal and literary representation and the fact that none of us can do without proxies. Aside from her academic work, Katrin writes on contemporary art and politics, cultural identity and migration, court proceedings and the formation of the subject. She has been a frequent visiting fellow at New York University and Yale University and has travelled many places in Europe, the US, Mexico, India, North Africa and the Middle East. Email: katrin.truestedt [at] gmail.com
	Thomas Rodham Wells Tom is a journeyman philosopher based in Rotterdam. Among other things, he edits an academic journal on philosophy and economics and blog at The Philosopher's Beard. Email: philosophersbeard [at] gmail.com
	Emrys Westacott Emrys Westacott grew up in the UK and moved to the US in 1986. He is currently professor of philosophy at Alfred University in Western New York. His work has appeared in both scholarly and popular publications, including International Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy Now, The Philosopher's Magazine, and The Humanist. His most recent book is The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness and Other Bad Habits (Princeton University Press, 2012). Email: westacott [at] alfred.edu Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ewestacott/
	Carol A. Westbrook Carol A. Westbrook received her PhD and MD from the University of Chicago, following which she spent 25 years in academic medicine, where she taught, cared for patients, and headed a cancer research lab. She was an active participant in the Human Genome Project. She recently retired from academics to pursue a more relaxed career as a full-time medical oncologist, and is currently on staff at the Henry Cancer Center of Geisinger Health Systems in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She is the author of "Ask An Oncologist: Honest Answers to Your Cancer Questions," (2012) and writes a regular column as "The Beer Doctor" for YourBeerNetwork.com. She divides her time between Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Beverly Shores, Indiana. Email: [email protected]

OCCASIONAL OR FORMER CONTRIBUTORS

In alphabetical order by last name:

	Marko Ahtisaari Marko Ahtisaari was born in Helsinki, Finland and grew up in Helsinki, Dar es Salaam and New York. He studied economics, philosophy and music at Columbia University in the City of New York where he subsequently lectured in logic, philosophy of economics and the history of thought. He went on to be the leader of the mobile practice at the design consultancy Satama Interactive. Currently Marko works as the Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. In the in-between moments he makes music. Blog: Marko Ahtisaari
	Omar Ali Omar Ali MD is a Pakistani-American academic physician with a research interest in the genetics and epigenetics of obesity. He is also interested in peace in South Asia and moderates the Asiapeace discussion group. Other interests include history and the public understanding of science. In a previous life, Dr Ali was also a book reviewer for the Pakistani magazine "Herald". Email: omarali502000 [at] yahoo.com
	Hasan Altaf Hasan Altaf, a graduate of New York University and Johns Hopkins University, is a writer currently based in Washington, DC. Email: hasan.altaf [at] gmail.com
	Kelly Amis Kelly Amis is the founder and president of Loudspeaker Films, a new independent film production company focused on social justice and education equity issues. Its first project, TEACHED, exposes disparities in the American public education system, especially as they impact urban minority youth. After graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University, Amis taught fourth and fifth grades in South Central, Los Angeles as a charter corps member of Teach for America. This experience inspired Amis to earn a master's degree in Education Policy Analysis from Stanford University and to research local school governance as a Fulbright Scholar at the Australian Council for Educational Research in Melbourne. Since then, Amis has worked as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein—handling education, labor and foreign policy issues—and for a variety of education reform organizations, including: the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, where she launched one of the nation’s first charter school incubators; the Sallie Mae Fund, where she helped design and start-up Building Hope, a charter school facilities fund; and Fight For Children, where she devised the "three sector strategy" that helped increase educational options for low-income District of Columbia students. Amis is the co-author of “Making it Count: A Guide to High-Impact Education Philanthropy,” and numerous articles on education reform.  She lives in Northern California. Email: k_amis [at] yahoo.com
	Saifedean Ammous Saifedean Ammous lives in New York and is a candidate for a PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He grew up in Ramallah in Colonized Palestine and has a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's in Development Management from the London School of Economics. He supports Liverpool FC rabidly, cooks the undisputed best shrimp pasta in the world, and blogs at TheSaifHouse.wordpress.com Email: Saifedean.ammous [at] gmail.com
	Namit Arora Namit Arora grew up in the Indian cow-belt city of Gwalior, famous for its fort and the first epigraphic evidence of zero. After IIT Kharagpur he obtained a Masters in Computer Engineering from Louisiana, followed by a great escape in 1991 to Silicon Valley, where he played a cog in the wheel of Internet technology at three failed startups and at Nokia, Cisco, and McAfee. This didn't make him wise but enabled him to attend lectures of dubious practical value at Stanford and to live, work, or travel in scores of countries, including yearlong stints in London and Amsterdam. He quit this profession in 2013 and moved from California to Delhi NCR. Namit’s essays have appeared in venues like the Humanist, Philosophy Now, the Times Literary Supplement, the Caravan, the Kyoto Journal, the Philosopher, Himal Southasian, and four college anthologies in the U.S. His review of Joothan won the 3 Quarks Daily 2011 Arts & Literature Prize. During a two-year break (2004-06), Namit traveled across India and created a photojournal. Over 15 museums, 30 academies, and 50 publishers have licensed his photos. His videography includes River of Faith, a documentary film about the Kumbh Mela. Contact him via email, blog or website.
	Robert P. Baird Robert P. Baird lives in Kampala, Uganda and recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His website is robertpbaird.com and he's on Twitter (@bobbybaird). Email: bobby.baird [at] gmail.com
	Aasem Bakhshi Aasem Bakhshi is a computer engineer, living and teaching in Islamabad. His research relates to biomedical signal processing and artificial intelligence. His literary interests are multidisciplinary, equally belonging to the fields of philosophy, science and literature. He has been actively engaged in various translation projects for the last couple of years and besides rendering short stories of various authors in Urdu, he has also translated Dai Sijie's novel 'Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress'. Another novel 'Goat Days' by Benyamin and short stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa are works in progress. He has also translated selected essays of American philosophers Abraham Joshua Heschel (Jewish philosophy), Charles Sander Peirce (philosophy of science), and parts of Primo Levi's 'If this is a Man' into Urdu. A collection of his poetry Shahrah-e-Shawq has been published in 2015. Email: asembuxi [at] gmail.com
	Hartosh Singh Bal Hartosh has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from BITS Pilani, India and a graduate degree in mathematics from New York University. None of this was meant as preparation for a career in journalism but he is now political editor of the weekly magazine Open that comes out of New Delhi. He is also co-author of a A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel brought out by Princeton University Press. Email: hartoshbal [at] gmail.com
	Kevin Scott Baldwin Kevin Scott Baldwin is an Associate Professor of Biology at Monmouth College in Western Illinois, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has written previously for The Evolutionary Review. Email: kbaldwin [at] monm.edu
	Jason Socrates Bardi Jason graduated from the University of Hartford with degrees in physics, math, and English, and he obtained graduate degrees in molecular biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University and in science writing from JHU's Writing Seminars program. He has worked as a professional writer for a number of companies, government agencies, and private institutions, including a year as a writer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, five years as the senior science writer at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, and two years as a senior writer at the National Institutes of Health. He is author of "The Calculus Wars" (Avalon, 2006) and "The Fifth Postulate" (Wiley, 2008). He lives in College Park, MD. Email: jsbardi [at] gmail [dot] com
	Michael Blim Michael Blim teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He writes about equality and global justice and is the author of Economy and Equality: The Global Challenge (2005). Email: mblim [at] gc.cuny.edu
	Mark Blyth Mark Blyth is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a visiting professor in the UK, France, Germany, and Singapore. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century and is currently working on three projects: a book on party politics and political economy in advanced welfare states called The New Political Economy of Party Politics, an edited volume on constuctivist theory and political economy entitled Constructivist Political Economy, and a series of papers on probability, randomness, and epistemology in the social sciences, which may or may not end up a book. His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Comparative European Politics. Email: mark.blyth[at]jhu.edu
	Simon Boas Simon worked for development NGOs for several years before selling his soul to the United Nations, for which he currently manages a small office in the Gaza Strip. He has a Master’s degree in Policy Analysis, having first pretended to study English at Oxford. Like every other idiot who did so, he suspects he has a great book in him; the woeful state of his Arabic after six years in the Middle East testifies that he’s probably too lazy to find out. Simon enjoys singing, shooting and carousing. Happily he is married to Aurelie. Email: bobboas [at] hotmail [dot] com
	Grace Boey Grace is currently an MA student in Philosophy at New York University. She’s particularly interested right now in the philosophy of psychiatry, bioethics, and applied ethics in general. Before coming to New York, Grace studied finance and business law in Singapore as an undergrad, only to find out that really, really wasn’t for her. In her spare time, Grace can sometimes be found playing in an orchestra, baking bread, eating her way through Flushing or writing poetry. Her latest projects are learning to draw, and learning to programme in C. Email: graceboey [at] gmail.com
	Beth Ann Bovino Beth Ann works as a senior economist at Standard and Poor's in Manhattan. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Email: bethann_bovino [at] standardandpoors.com
	Eric Byrd Eric Byrd is a librarian and archivist living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Email: edbyrd98 [at] yahoo.com
	Rishidev Chaudhuri Rishi was born in Colombo, and grew up in Bangalore before going to college in Massachusetts, where he had a suitably unfocused liberal arts education. Afterwards, he drifted about India, and briefly worked as a journalist for a paper in Calcutta, interviewing local celebrities and struggling artists. He is now working towards a Phd in Applied Mathematics at Yale. In the meanwhile, he tries desperately to keep his literary and scientific interests away from each other, and to shield his worldview from the tentacles of modern science. Email: rishidev.chaudhuri [at] yale.edu
	Norman Costa Norman teaches graduate and undergraduate psychological research methods at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He also runs his own social science research and consulting firm, eXpert Survey Systems Inc. He has a PhD in Psychology from The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Among his interests are epistemology and the philosophy of science. His love is his students, and his passion is the training of the next generation of social scientists and researchers. Email: norman.costa1 [at] marist.edu
	Descha Chakravaka Daemgen Descha Chakravaka Daemgen is a writer in Berlin, Germany. He is currently engaged in a project on the relation between aesthetics and finance in late nineteenth century literature. Email: [email protected]
	Gabe DiNicola Gabe DiNicola graduated from the University of New Haven with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He is currently on a long hiatus from his Master of Science degree in Information Technology. He lives with his beautiful, college sweetheart wife and their two adorable children in Connecticut. He enjoys math, science, cooking, wine and beer making, and writing. Email: gabedinicola [at] gmail [dot] com
	Timothy Don Timothy Don is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is editor of Radical Society, a quarterly journal of politics and culture. He is currently at work on a novel and can be reached at [email protected]
	Gerald Dworkin Gerald Dworkin is a philosopher teaching at the University of California, Davis. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford as well as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. From 1990-97 he was the editor of ETHICS. When not thinking about How to Live, What to Do he is thinking about Where to Eat, How to Cook. He divides his time between Sacramento and Chicago (where his two daughters and five grand-children live) and thinks the best four word sentence in English is Ring Lardner's: "Shut up he explained." Email: gdworkin [at] ucdavis.edu
	Jennifer Cody Epstein Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of The Painter from Shanghai, an imaginative retelling of the life of Chinese prostitute-turned-post-Impressionist Pan Yuliang. Her fiction has also appeared in several literary magazines She has lived and worked in the U.S., Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Italy for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Mademoiselle, Self and Parents, as well as for the NBC and HBO networks. She has a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she is an adjunct professor in the School of the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, filmmaker Michael Epstein, and their two daughters. Website: www.jennifercodyepstein.com
	Richard Eskow Richard (RJ) Eskow is a consultant and writer who has worked as a Fortune 500 executive, a software designer, a professional rock musician. He’s been a consultant in health policy, technology, and medical issues for public and private clients, domestically and in over 20 foreign countries. Richard has conducted interviews with politicians such as John Kerry and Russ Feingold, musicians like Richard Thompson and Billy Joe Shaver, and figures in the worlds of religion and science. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and is an occasional co-host for “The Young Turks” radio show, despite being neither Turkish nor particularly young. Email: reskow [at] att.net
	Wayne Ferrier Wayne Ferrier has been freelance writing since 1991. He started out with an interest in natural history and expanded that interest to popular science. He specializes in finding out what scientists and researchers are up to and translating those findings to a general audience. He also works as a corporate trainer, teaching English to employees of global companies from Tokyo to Madrid. He currently lives in Johnson City, New York. Email: wayneferrier [at] rocketmail.com
	Alexander Bastidas Fry All around raconteur and scientist. A science writer and story teller. On the cusp of receiving a PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington; working to illuminate dark matter in our Universe. He is passionate about communicating science with the aim to turn society's good intentions into actionable ideas that result in demonstratively positive outcomes. A tireless observer of the natural world, and additionally an activate participant. He makes uncommon observations of the world at www.commonobserver.com Email: alexander.bastidas.fry [at] gmail [dot] com
	Julia Galef Julia Galef is a New York-based writer and public speaker specializing in science, rationality, and design. She serves on the board of directors of the New York City Skeptics, co-hosts their official podcast, Rationally Speaking, and co-writes the blog Rationally Speaking along with philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci. She has moderated panel discussions at The Amazing Meeting and the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, and gives frequent public lectures to organizations including the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Student Alliance. Julia received her B.A. in statistics from Columbia in 2005. Email: julia.galef [at] gmail [dot] com
	Shiban Ganju Shiban is the chairman of a biotechnology company in India and a practicing gastroenterologist in the USA. He travels between these two spaces frequently but lives in them simultaneously. He has been a passionate theater worker, reluctant army officer, ambitious entrepreneur, successful CEO and an active NGO volunteer. Still, he is does not know what he wants to be when he grows up; but he wants his epitaph to be "He tried." Email: skganju [at] aol.com
	Kathleen Goodwin Kathleen Goodwin lives in Baltimore where she is completing the requirements in order to apply to medical school. She graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Social Studies, focusing on ethnic conflict in South Asia. Her senior thesis explored the 1984 Delhi massacre through a comparison with the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. Email: kgoodwin57 [at] gmail [dot] com
	Jonathan Halvorson Jonathan has degrees in Philosophy from Columbia University and Reed College. After teaching at Washington University, he left academia, made an abortive foray into campaign politics, then hit on the obvious choice to join a health insurance company, where he presently serves as a Director. Jonathan splits his time between New York City and Easton, PA, with his exemplary wife and two superlative children. Email: jonathan.halvorson [at] gmail [dot] com
	Sousan Hammad Sousan Hammad is a writer and translator residing in Paris. Website: www.sousanhammad.com
	Elatia Harris Elatia Harris is a personal chef and cooking teacher in Cambridge, Massachusettes. Website: http://www.lucysmomcuisine.com Email: elatia [at] lucysmomcuisine.com
	Christopher H. Heaney Born in West Australia and raised in New Jersey, Christopher H. Heaney has an undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies from Yale University. He's hacked his way through journalism and oral history up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and his work has appeared in The New Republic and Legal Affairs Magazine. He's fondest of his articles for his hometown newspaper, however. He recently spent a year working in Peru, where he was able to indulge his mild obsession with pre-Columbian ruins, dusty archives and museum dioramas. Email: chrisheaney [at] gmail.com
	Liam Heneghan Liam Heneghan, a Dubliner, is an ecosystem ecologist working at DePaul University in Chicago where he is a Professor of Environmental Science and co-director of DePaul University's Institute for Nature and Culture. His research has included studies on the impact of acid rain on soil foodwebs in Europe, and on inter-biome comparisons of decomposition and nutrient dynamics in forested ecosystems in North American and in the tropics. Over the past decade Heneghan and his students have been working on restoration issues in Midwestern ecosystems. Heneghan is co-chair of the Chicago Wilderness Science Team. He is also a graduate student in DePaul University's philosophy program, a part-time model, and an occasional poet. Email: lhenegha [at] gmail [dot] com
	Bill Hooker Bill Hooker was born in Papua New Guinea but had his schooling, second grade through PhD, in Australia. (His education, a different matter entirely, is ongoing.) Being interested in roots and beginnings, he is a molecular biologist by trade; but having not ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air, he is also interested in photography, poetry, community and social justice. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife Cat Connor, likes cheese and rain and late afternoon light, and can be got at through his own website, Open Reading Frame. Email: sennoma [at] fastmail.fm
	Charlie Huenemann Charlie Huenemann is fascinated by the ways that human lives get tangled up with ideas, theories, and abstract entities. Philosophical questions impress him, especially the ones that keep surfacing despite great historical turbulence. He has published various works on Spinoza and Nietzsche, and is Professor of Philosophy at Utah State University. Blog posts that don't make it to 3QD can be found at huenemanniac.wordpress.com. Email: chuenemann [at] gmail.com
	Joy Icayan Joy Icayan is a psychology grad student and human rights research associate for a human rights NGO in the Philipppines. Her interests include evolution, morality, cognitive sciences and literature. She also writes fiction. Email: joy.anne [at] gmail.com
	Tom Jacobs Tom Jacobs is an assistant professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, where he teaches a range of classes in writing and literature. He received a Ph.D from New York University in American Literature and lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Email: tjacob02 [at] nyit.edu
	Mara Jebsen Mara Jebsen is a poet who is deeply marked by oral traditions, and interested in the staging, singing and storytelling of poetry. She studied public policy and African and African-American studies at Duke University, and holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU. Mara teaches the craft of essay-writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and at some point during her years of teaching began to learn to write an essay, herself. She was raised in Philadelphia and Lome, and now lives in Brooklyn, where she is a consummate bruncher. Email: marajebsen [at] yahoo.com
	Saurabh Jha Saurabh Jha is an academic radiologist interested in decision making in medicine. He became a doctor because a palm reader said he had no chance of a career in Bollywood or international cricket. He trained in Britain and moved to the United States because it seemed like a good idea at the time. He made the mistake of reading Nietzsche before Harry Potter, so he is permanently seeking his Voldermort. Email: saurabh.jha [at] uphs.upenn.edu Twitter: @RogueRad
	David V. Johnson David V. Johnson is the online opinion editor for Al Jazeera America. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. Email: dvjohnso [at] gmail.com
	Tara* Kaushal Tara* Kaushal is a Mumbai, India-based writer who comments on gender, sexuality, equal rights and socio-cultural issues, alongside interviewing inspiring people. She opines in a weekly column for iDiva; contributes regularly to the Sunday Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Women's Health, to name a few; and has won the Laadli Media Award for gender-sensitive writing. Having topped her BA Honours in English with a specialisation in feminism from JMC, New Delhi, she completed her Masters in English from Mumbai University with a focus on gender and post-colonial lit. She uses the skills she honed as the former Editor of BBC GoodHomes in her alternate careers as an art director and a media consultant. Tara* lives and works out of a happy open home with four dogs, two cats (all rescues) and her photographer husband. She waxes eloquent on Facebook.com/Kaushal.Tara and would love to start a conversation. Email: tara [at] tarakaushal.com
	Madhu Kaza Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu Kaza is a writer, translator, performance artist, and educator based in New York City. Email: mhk4 [at] nyu.edu
	Sam Kean Sam Kean grew up in South Dakota, which means more to him than it probably should. He went to college in Minnesota, studied physics, taught for a few years, tried to move to Spain (it didn't take), and ended up in Washington, D.C. His book, The Disappearing Spoon: And other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements is available from Little, Brown in July 2010. Email: samkean [at] gmail.com
	Ruth Kikin-Gil Born and raised in Israel, Ruth studied visual communications at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and later lectured there. She also co-founded an interactive design consultancy, Max Interactive, and in 2003 moved to Italy with her husband, Erez, to pursue a Masters degree at Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, from which she is about to graduate in a few months. She is interested in the interplay between social behaviors and technology. Email: [email protected]ruthkikin.com Website: www.ruthkikin.com
	Alan Koenig Alan Koenig resides in Queens, New York with his wife, Anna Slatinsky, where they often associate with the Flux Factory. He has a Master’s degree in political science from the New School for Social Research and is pursuing a Ph. D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His essays have appeared in Radical Society and The Believer and he served as a co-editor for Old Town Review. Email: akynikos [at] gmail.com
	Jaffer Kolb Jaffer Kolb is a writer based in London, where he is finishing a master's in regional and urban planning at the London School of Economics. He writes regularly about architecture and urban planning for The Architects' Journal, Blueprint, and The Architect's Newspaper. In addition, he has contributed to Metropolis, Architectural Lighting, and The Real Deal. Email: jafferkolb [at] gmail.com Website: www.jafferkolb.com
	Affinity Konar Affinity Konar grew up in California. She received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and now lives in New York City. Her first novel, The Illustrated Version of Things, will be released next spring, and she's presently working on another, about silent films and psychic frauds. Email: affinity.konar [at] gmail.com
	Krzysztof Kotarski Krzysztof was born in Warsaw in 1981 and moved to Canada at age 11, where he was first exposed to citrus fruit, the cult of Ayn Rand and Sonic the Hedgehog. After numerous attempts to get Anglophones to pronounce his name, Krzysztof became Kris, and eventually earned a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary where he researched arms control programs in the former Soviet Union. During the past four years, Kris has written about the world as often as he could, briefly worked for the UN, and has lived Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Geneva, Paris, Washington and Warsaw. Needless to say, he hopes to nail down a permanent address sometime soon. Email: kkotarski [at] gmail.com
	Jonathan Kramnick Jonathan Kramnick is an English professor at Rutgers University. He lives in Manhattan. Email: kramnick[at]rci.rutgers.edu
	Alon Levy Alon Levy was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, went to college in Singapore, and is now studying mathematics at Columbia's graduate school. He lives in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, and considers it more a home to him than any of the countries he used to live in. When he doesn't try to solve problems in abstract algebra, he blogs about politics and occasionally mathematics at Abstract Nonsense. Email: alon_levy12 [at] hotmail.com
	Lisa Lieberman Trained as a modern European cultural and intellectual historian, Lisa Lieberman abandoned a perfectly respectable academic career for the life of a vicarious adventurer through dangerous times and places. She was in Paris during the German Occupation with Jean-Paul Sartre, hanging around long enough to observe the postwar purges of French collaborators with Simone de Beauvoir before taking off with some prominent members of the French Resistance who opposed the dirty war being waged by their government in Algeria. Most recently, she’s been keeping her head down in Budapest as the Soviets move in to crush the 1956 Revolution. She blogs about old movies at Deathless Prose. Email: deathlessprose1 [at] gmail.com
	Michael Lopresto Michael Lopresto is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His thesis focuses on the nature-nurture debate, looking at issues regarding the innateness (or lack thereof) of our psychology, and the evolution of language and morality. On the rare occasions he’s not doing philosophy (much), he’s indulging in the spoils of the South Australian countryside, courtesy of the genius of its wine and cheese makers. Email: michael.lopresto [at] adelaide.edu.au
	Alex de Lucena Alex de Lucena is a New York based fiction writer. Email: adelucena [at] gmail.com
	Ram Manikkalingam Ram Manikkalingam is currently a visiting professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a physicist, a radical activist, a political analyst, a political theorist, a presidential advisor, a beggar, a funder, and of course a slacker. He speaks four languages badly (and none of them are Urdu, Hindi or Punjabi). He likes to think he is a black New Yorker and a leftist Sri Lankan, but his friends and enemies say he is really a WASP from Boston.
	Colin Marshall Colin Marshall writes about film but doubles as the host of a public radio show, triples as a blogger on culture and self-engineering, quadruples as the host of a book club podcast and quintuples as a reviewer of podcasts. He loves tea, old-school R&B and the work of Abbas Kiarostami. Email: colinjmarshall [at] gmail.com
	Katharine Blake McFarland Katharine has a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in English Literature from Smith College. She has worked in various capacities on issues of mass incarceration, juvenile justice, and prisoners' rights. Most recently she served as Assistant General Counsel at the Children’s Defense Fund. She lives, currently, in San Francisco and is working on a book because she does not want to open her safe one day and find ashes.
	James McGirk James McGirk is an MFA student at Columbia University. His bylines include TIME Asia, More Intelligent Life, Foreign Policy and The L Magazine. For more information you are welcome to visit his website at jamesmcgirk.com. Email: james.mcgirk [at] caa.columbia.edu
	Matt McKenna Matt McKenna is a writer, filmmaker, and software engineer in Berkeley, CA. He previously wrote a twice-monthly column at McSweeney’s titled American Policy Suggestions from a Chicago Sports Fan. His films are online at tacowednesday.com, and his programming work is online at mtmckenna.com. Email: matt [at] mtmckenna.com
	Katherine McNamara Katherine McNamara has lived as a writer for longish times in Paris, Alaska, New York, and Charlottesville, Virginia, and traveled frequently to Ireland. Although her academic work was in European intellectual history, she has always been more curious about how ideas work their way through the world. In 1997, she founded Archipelago, an international journal of literature, the arts, opinion, and politics. She is the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska, and is at work on a book of memoirs about three persons now gone who were well-known in their parts of the world and also important to her. Website: web.me.com/katherinemcnamara Email: katherinemcnamara.writer [at] gmail.com
	Vivek Menezes Vivek Menezes is a widely published writer and photographer. He was born in Bombay, went to high school in New York, and holds degrees from Wesleyan University and the London School of Economics. Previous career highlights include driving the safari train at the Bronx Zoo, serving as Jacques Cousteau's personal economic advisor, and building Sachin Tendulkar's first official website. He lives in Goa with his wife and three sons. Email: vmingoa [at] gmail.com
	Henry Molofsky Proudly hailing from Washington, DC, Henry now lives in Connecticut where he studies philosophy and music at Wesleyan University. He has previously worked at the nationally syndicated public radio program Afropop. He has also spent time studying and being a middle-school English teacher's assistant in Israel. He writes a lot of essays, which sometimes he'll admit he enjoys, but he also enjoys running in the woods, playing crazy parties with his top-40 cover band, and banging on West-African drums with nearly-correct technique. And he is a pianist. Email: h.molofsky [at] gmail.com
	Tauriq Moosa Tauriq Moosa is contributing editor to Secular Humanist Bulletin, the newsletter for the Council for Secular Humanism. He is also a contributor to Skeptic magazine and Butterfliesandwheels.com. He has been published and translated for a number of European humanist organisations, including the Swedish Humanist Association and the Polish Rationalist Association. He has appeared on radio and local media. He obtained a B.Soc.Sci from the University of Cape Town. He is currently doing a Masters in Philosophy, specialising in Bioethics, at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Stellenbosch University. Email: tauriq.moosa [at] fsi.org.za
	Debra Morris Debra Morris holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and taught political philosophy at the University of Virginia until 2000. Soon she will have spent more years out of the academy than in it—which has the unanticipated benefit of making her wonder about fifteen times a day what, exactly, she knows. Still, she enjoys thinking about how the challenges of daily life help to reframe enduring philosophical and political problems—how to live meaningfully, act justly; when to pursue truth, when to seek connection. Email: dmu3qd [at] gmail.com
	Dave Munger Dave Munger is a writer living in Davidson, North Carolina. He is a columnist for SEEDMAGAZINE.COM and editor of ResearchBlogging.org. Dave co-founded ResearchBlogging.org, which collects blog posts about peer-reviewed research, in 2007. The site now has over 1,500 registered blogs and features over 16,000 posts in six languages. For five years, Dave and his wife Greta maintained the psychology blog Cognitive Daily, which was chosen three times to appear in the Open Laboratory, an annual anthology of the top science blog posts on the web. It has appeared on numerous top ten lists including ranking seventh on Nature’s 50 popular science blogs list. The site has had over 2.5 million visits. Dave is the author of several college textbooks. Email: dsmunger [at] gmail.com
	Feisal H. Naqvi Feisal Naqvi is a partner at the firm of Bhandari, Naqvi & Riaz based in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied Islamic history at Princeton before going on to study law at Yale. Other pieces written by him are archived at www.monsoonfrog.wordpress.com Email: laalshah [at] gmail.com
	Husain Naqvi Husain Naqvi is a lecturer in literature and creative writing at Boston University. Before his incarnation as an academic, he was an investment-banker who worked on Wall Street and I.I. Chundrigar Road. During his undergraduate career, he was the recipient of the Lannan Fellowship, the Phelam Prize and served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Journal. He has read his poems on National Public Radio, and at Lollapalooza and the Nuyorican Poets Café. Husain fancies himself a renaissance man who has his finger on the pulse of the great global dialectic. He smokes Dunhills. Email: [email protected]
	Dhiraj Nayyar Dhiraj was born in New Delhi, India in 1978. He has lived, at various times, in New Delhi, Brighton, Calcutta, Washington, DC, Geneva, Oxford, and Cambridge. Convinced, at an early age, and beyond reasonable doubt, that he was unfit for the world of work, Dhiraj decided to pursue a career as a perpetual student in the field of Economics. He is still ‘working’ on his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. While doing so, he divides his time inhaling the fresh air of Cambridge, exhaling the chaos of Delhi, and whiling away time in the serenity of the Himalayan foothills, in Dehradun. Email: dn234 [at] cam.ac.uk
	Peter Nicholson Australian poet and writer Peter Nicholson lives in Sydney. He is a graduate of Macquarie University and is interested in cinema and music, especially the music dramas of Wagner. He has published three volumes of poetry, A Temporary Grace, Such Sweet Thunder and A Dwelling Place. There is an introduction to his work at peternicholson.com.au [Peter's photo by David Moore]. Email: [email protected]
	Tolu Ogunlesi Tolu Ogunlesi works as a journalist in Lagos, Nigeria. He was awarded a 2009 CNN Multichoice African Journalism Prize, in the Arts & Culture category. Before now he has worked as a pharmacist, a management consultant and a corporate communications executive. In 2008 he was a Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden; and in 2009 a Cadbury Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham, England. His work has been translated into Dutch, Latvian, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish. He owns one digital camera, two lenses and plenty of hope for a successful career in photography. When he isn’t travelling he is busy looking forward to travelling. The rest of the time he is to be found contemplating starting a novel. Email: tolu.ogunlesi [at] gmail.com Website: www.toluogunlesi.wordpress.com
	Quinn O'Neill Originally from Nova Scotia, Quinn holds degrees in biology, psychology, dentistry and educational leadership. She currently does research in science education and lives in Montreal, Canada. Email: wqoneill [at] gmail.com
	Jennifer Ouellette A former English major turned science writer, Jennifer Ouellette is the author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics, and the forthcoming The Physics of the Buffyverse, both published by Penguin. Her work has also appeared in Discover, Salon, and New Scientist, among other venues, and she maintains a populist Weblog called Cocktail Party Physics, along with avatar/alter ego "Jen-Luc Piquant." She has covered such varied topics as the acoustics of Mayan pyramids and New York City subways; fractal patterns in the paintings of Jackson Pollock; and the precarious pitfalls of pseudoscience. She holds a black belt in Niseido jujitsu, and lives in Washington, DC. On the Web: www.jenniferouellette-writes.com Weblog: www.twistedphysics.typepad.com
	Alan S. Page Alan Page currently lives in Mexico City. He teaches English literature at UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico,) is studying Lacanian psychoanalysis at Dimensión Psicoanalítica, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the New York University English Department. His doctoral dissertation is on Anthropomorphism and the Vortex in William Blake's poetry. He works as a screenwriter, most recently on the forthcoming Mexican Tv series XY, and has been a translator for longer than he can remember. These days he tries to stick to translating only film and poetry. He is currently translating Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red into Spanish and a book of poems by the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda into English. Alan Page has spent a lifetime being from neither here nor there. Email: alans.page [at] gmail.com
	Jedediah Palmer Jed was born and bred in New York City. He's traveled a lot, lived for short periods of time in many different cities, and worked a variety of jobs (Circulation Manager, Bookseller, Foreign Rights Assistant, First Press Editor). Currently he lives in Brooklyn and seeks work as a copyeditor and proofreader. Email: jedediahpalmer [at] yahoo.com
	Abhay Parekh Abhay Parekh grew up in Bombay, India, and attended Cathedral School and St. Xavier's College there before moving to the U.S. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT. His papers in data networking have won international awards, and one was selected as among the 16 best papers in networking in the last 50 years. Abhay lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children, is a partner in a silicon valley venture capital firm, and is an adjunct professor at Berkeley. Website: www.tecknowbasic.com
	Jen Paton California born Jen Paton is currently studying Global Media and Post-national Communication at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She holds a BA in History from Yale University, where she wrote about representations of cannibalism during the first crusade. Her interests include historiography, political communication, and popular history – especially where the three intersect. She also volunteers for OpenAir.fm. Email: jenpaton [at] gmail.com
	Alyssa Pelish Alyssa Pelish has studied modernist literature and neuroscience, is an itinerant instructor of literature and writing, a frequent reviewer for Rain Taxi, and is currently at work on a novel. Email: alyssa.pelish [at] gmail.com
	Gautam Pemmaraju A Hyderabad native, Gautam has been a Bombay based writer/director since his return to India 14 years ago from NYC. With a couple of Masters degrees, in Communication from the University of Hyderabad and Television-Radio- Film from Syracuse University, he worked as a producer for three and half years at the music TV station Channel[V] during the height of its influence. As an independent since 2000, he works in Broadcast Design, Promotion & Brand Identity as well as in non-fiction TV shows & documentary. Contributing off and on to a few publications, post-colonial India and its strange cities is a primary interest of his, amongst several unrelated, excursionary ones. Email: gautam.pemmaraju [at] gmail.com
	Jonathan Pfeiffer As an undergraduate, Jonathan studied a combined curriculum of biomedical engineering, politics, philosophy, and global studies at California Lutheran University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. After living in Arlington, Virginia and working on Science Progress for a while, he returned for global studies graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Email: jonathan [at] multivoiced.com
	Robert Pichler Robert Pichler lives in the South Tyrol and works as a caricaturist/cartoonist and illustrator. His drawings are published in newspapers in the German-speaking parts of Europe. Email: rob.pic [at] alice.it
	Laray Polk Laray Polk lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multi-media artist and writer. Interests include media, language, and politics. Email: laraypolk [at] earthlink [dot] net
	Steven Poole Steven Poole is the author of Unspeak and Trigger Happy. He reviews books for the Guardian and gets annoyed with technology.
	Alta L. Price Educated in the so-called fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, Alta L. Price is currently acting as editor, translator, and draftswoman from her Long Island City studio. Early work in Icelandic geology and printing history inspired her incessant habit of being interested in just about everything. She practices certain obsolescent arts, including watermark making and carving signs in stone; in other words, her current work deals with the presence of the past. Email: alprice[at]textuality[dot]org
	Edward B. Rackley Trained as an academic philosopher, Ed works in conflict and post conflict countries, mostly in Africa. His work involves setting up emergency aid programs, running them, or evaluating them. He keeps a blog on issues related to whatever country he happens to be working in, called 'Across the Divide: Analysis and Anecdote from Africa'. Blog: http://rackleyed.blogspot.com
	S. Asad Raza Asad Raza was born in Buffalo, New York and studied literature and film at Johns Hopkins and NYU. He writes about art, literature, and tennis. In 2010 he produced the artist Tino Sehgal's exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum, New York. He is currently at work producing Sehgal's 2012 commission for the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern. Email: s.asad.raza at gmail
	Jane Renaud Jane is an administrative assistant living in Brooklyn. She was born in Palo Alto in 1983. Her grandmother grew up in Nebraska next door to a little boy who sat depressed on the porch report card in hand and said, "Damn teacher knows I can't read." He called his big sister "Old Bev," and for her Jane's column is named. Email: janerenaud at gmail dot com
	Fausto Ribeiro Fausto Ribeiro was born in Brazil in 1982. He obtained his law degree from the University of São Paulo with a dissertation about the UN’s (lack of) reaction to the genocide in Rwanda. He joined the Brazilian Foreign Service in 2007 and has since served in Brasilia, Amman, Geneva, and currently in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Email: faustoaribeiro [at] gmail.com
	Alexander Richey Alexander is Assistant Digital Operations Manager at Time Inc. and a part-time graduate student at Columbia University in philosophy. He received his bachelors from N.Y.U. in 2012 and currently live in Brooklyn. Website: alexrichey.com Email: alexander.richey [at] gmail.com
	Meghan Rosen Meghan Rosen earned her B.S. in biology from Northern Arizona University, and recently graduated with a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California at Davis. When not writing articles for a local newspaper in Davis, or columns for 3QD, she enjoys composing short biographies about herself. You can follow her on twitter (user name: aliquots), or check out her blog: wwww.aliquots.wordpress.com. Email: msdukerich [at] gmail.com
	Daniel Rourke Daniel is a PhD researcher with a confusing thesis title (something about art and writing). His time in London is split between eating Japanese food and starting new projects. Daniel’s website, MachineMachine, contains a portfolio of his work. Email: text [at] machinemachine.net
	Ryan Ruby Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator living in Berlin. He holds a masters degree in the social sciences from the University of Chicago and has been a lecturer in the History and Philosophy Department of York College in Queens, New York. His fiction and criticism have appeared in such venues as The Baffler, Conjunctions, Dissent, and n+1 and may be found at his website. His translations of Roger Caillois and Grégoire Bouillier are currently available from Readux Books. The Zero and the One, his first novel, is forthcoming from Twelve Books in March 2017. Email: ryansruby [at] gmail.com Website: http://www.ryanruby.info/
	Ryan Sayre Ryan is currently out east finishing a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology. He works on security and seismicity in Tokyo and posts intermittently on architecture, earthquakes, and anthropology at www.architectonictokyo.com. Email: ryan.sayre [at] yale.edu
	Olivia Scheck Olivia was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and will graduate this spring with a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University. In the past four years, she has conducted research on the cognitive abilities of capuchin monkeys, volunteered with an eye-health organization in Accra, Ghana, and edited the school's satirical tabloid. She has many marketable skills, and would be a tremendous asset to your business or organization. Email: olivia.scheck [at] gmail.com
	David Schneider David Schneider is a writer, media analyst and student of culture in New York City, with published criticism on – among other things – film, architecture, photography, fine dining, and music. He is the founder and editor of boybedlamreview.com, an online magazine of arts and ideas for the 21st century. He has an MA in English Literature from Oxford University, studied creative writing at Middlebury College, and spent seven years in Chicago. You can find out more about him, and read more of his work, at daschneider.wordpress.com Email: schneiderdavid73 [at] gmail.com
	Ben Schreckinger Ben Schreckinger is a freelance writer and journalist based at large. From Washington, he's covered the 2012 elections, politics, and public policy for National Journal. From Burma, he's covered the Sino-American rivalry for Newsweek. He's also contributed features to Slate, the Boston Globe Ideas section, and GlobalPost, among others. He graduated in 2012 from Brown University, where he majored in classics and served as editor-in-chief of The Brown Daily Herald. Ben's interests include the intersection of politics and economics, intellectual movements, and language. His skills do not include proficiency in Excel. Email: b.schreckinger [at] gmail.com
	Ryan Seals Ryan Seals is a graduate student in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on environmental health, and on methods to draw causal inferences from observational studies. Aside from his areas of research, he is interested in how scientific data - particularly observational epidemiology - are used in policy-making and the law, and how such use has changed over time. Email: rms730 [at] mail.harvard.edu
	Evan Selinger Evan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Program Faculty at the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology. When he's not engaging issues concerning expertise and the ethics of science and technology, Evan enjoys spending time with his wife Noreen and daughter Rory, making the most of life in the world's imaging capital. Although Evan is a prolific researcher with numerous academic books and articles, he also cares deeply about public engagement. He writes for popular magazines and blogs, including Slate, The Atlantic, and The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Email: eselinger [at] gmail.com
	Haider Shahbaz Haider is a Pakistani. An undergraduate. At Yale. All these things baffle him. He spends most of his time trying to cope with his bafflement at these and other things. He copes with it by talking to things and people around him and taking various colorful intoxicants. When sane, Haider enjoys South Asian History, English Literature and Film because they allow him to read a lot of books, watch a lot of movies and then act painfully pretentious about them. He, also, tries very hard not to eat cute furry animals and his dream is to obliterate their suffering. That is not his only dream though. Since having spent two years in the countryside in Wales he wants to live atop a mountain with lots of sheep and secretly wants his cottage to become a pilgrimage site after he dies. Email: hshahbaz [at] gmail.com
	Josh Smith Josh is currently an undergraduate at the University of Maryland in College Park, anchoring one major in English Literature, and leaving the other open for consideration. He has been a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has worked at two different art galleries, and has published a volume of poetry through his own arts collective. His heroes are Leonardo da Vinci and Elliott Smith. He can be found on the internets at thecolorofinfinity.com. Email: [email protected]
	Justin E. H. Smith Justin E. H. Smith is an American essayist, journalist, and satirist based in Montreal. He doesn't want to write satire, but, as Juvenal said, the world leaves him no choice. He is a regular contributor to Counterpunch, and has written for numerous other online publications, including N+1. His work has been linked or cited in the online editions of the Guardian, the Atlantic Monthly, the Stranger, the Washington Post, and (probably a mistake) the National Review. His archive, www.jehsmith.com, brings together writing of his available on the Internet. Quite apart from all this, Smith is also a professor of philosophy and a specialist on the life and work of G. W. Leibniz. To see his academic profile, please visit www.jehsmith.com/philosophy. Email: [email protected]
	P. D. Smith P. D. Smith is a British writer and independent researcher whose work explores the links between science, literature and popular culture. His most recent book is Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon, a cultural history of science, superweapons and other strangeloves. This was published in 2007 by St Martin’s Press in the US and Penguin in the UK. In 2003 he wrote a brief biography of Einstein. His PhD thesis was a study of science in German literature, and this was published in 2000 as Metaphor and Materiality. He writes a regular round-up of science and cultural history books for the Guardian Review, as well as reviewing for The Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. PD Smith can be contacted through his blog and website, Kafka’s mouse (http://www.peterdsmith.com/).
	Aditya Dev Sood Aditya is a left-handed architect who writes better than he can draw, and talks better than he can write. He expended his youth pursuing doctorates in Sanskrit Philology and Cultural Anthropology. Inspired by a vintage clothing store in NoHo that no longer exists, he started the Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) as an extended performance art piece. However, CKS was soon hijacked by corporate interests to advance their own capitalist agendas. Having wandered the world for a number of years, he has recently returned to New Delhi, the city of his childhood, where he is currently shacked-up with his girlfriend. Aditya's futile efforts to intellectually comprehend the unyielding abundance of the world provide the pathos and humor characteristic of his writings and reflections on everyday life. [Photo: Joi Ito] Email: aditya [at] cks.in
	Ahila Sornarajah Ahila is a lawyer, and resides in London. She lives downstairs from an escort agency, and upstairs from a Morrocan restaurant. After living in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, she is relieved to have found a crazy, messed up place to call home. She likes her work, but likes going to the cinema, and pretending to speak Spanish more. Because she loves it, she thinks it worth saying that her favourite book is “When Memory Dies” by A Sivanandan. Email: ahilasorn [at] hotmail.com
	Jeff Strabone Jeff Strabone is a native New Yorker and professor of English. He also holds degrees in history and political science. Besides his scholarship and activism, he holds a U.S. patent for a voting system. His writing alternates between British and American spelling in the hope that others will share his deeply ambivalent relationship to standardization. Email: jeffstrabone [preposition] gmail
	Zujaja Tauqeer Former Associate Editor. Zujaja is a DPhil student researching military power and medical aid in Pakistan at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. A graduate of Brooklyn College, she will study medicine at Harvard Medical School after completing her DPhil. Born in Lahore, Zujaja left Pakistan with her family to escape persecution against Ahmadi Muslims, and someday, when she's finally out of the classroom, she hopes to return there and work to create an equitable and sustainable healthcare system. Email: zujajatauqeer [at] gmail.com
	Ker Than Ker Than is a graduate student at New York University's Science and Environmental Writing Program and a staff writer for LiveScience.com and Space.com. He has an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine and did neuroscience research in the field of learning and memory. He is interested in science in general, but also in its intersection with culture and the arts. Email: [email protected]
	Terrance Tomkow Tomkow holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge University and blogs on philosophical topics at www.tomkow.com. He lives in Los Angeles. Email: tomkow [at] tomkow.com
	J. M. Tyree J. M. Tyree helped edit 3QD during its first year. His essays appear in various periodicals. Email: ocra coke post g mail com
	Bryant Urstadt Bryant Urstadt is a writer living in New York. He's written for Harper's, Outside, New York, and others. He often writes about energy, finance, and the environment, but that would be pretty boring to do all the time, now wouldn't it? Email: bryant.urstadt [at] gmail.com
	Frans de Waal Frans de Waal is a Dutch/American primatologist with a Ph.D. in biology from Utrecht University. In 1981, he moved to the USA, where he teaches at Emory University and directs the Living Links Center for the Study of Ape and Human Evolution, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is known for his popular books, such as “Chimpanzee Politics” (1982), “Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape” (1997), and his latest, “The Age of Empathy” (2009). His interests include animal cooperation as well as the evolution of morality and justice. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. Also see: http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/
	Mandy de Waal A former broadcast journalist, Mandy de Waal spent twenty years in business before returning to her first love, writing. De Waal currently works as an editor,​ researcher,​ freelance writer and journalist. Published in Rolling Stone and The Guardian, de Waal has also written for Daily Maverick, Finweek, Mail & Guardian, City Press, Rapport, Moneyweb, Noseweek​ and MarkLives.com​. Twitter: @mandyldewaal Email: MandyLdeWaal [at] gmail.com
	Nick Werle Raised in modern-day East Egg, Nick has watched two boom-bust business cycles up close. After concentrating in physics and modern critical philosophy at Brown, he has begun studying the history of modern physics and political economy. Currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Pembroke Center studying the history of physics and political economy, he teaches economics at The Wheeler School, in Providence, RI, and works as a writing tutor at the Brown University Writing Center. In addition to reading and writing, Nick enjoys long distance backpacking, cooking, and arguing. Email: nickwerle [at] gmail.com Website: www.runningthezoo.com
	Monica Westin Monica Westin is an art critic and PhD student in the history of rhetoric. She is currently a visiting researcher at Berkeley's rhetoric department working on a collaborative book project about experimental documentation across media. Email: monica.e.westin [at] gmail.com
	Jenny White Jenny White is an associate professor of social anthropology at Boston University and author of the prize-winning Islamist Mobilization in Turkey (University of Washington) and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women’s Labor in Urban Turkey (Routledge). She also writes mystery/thrillers set in nineteenth-century Istanbul: The Sultan’s Seal (W. W. Norton, 2006), The Abyssinian Proof (2008), and The Winter Thief (2010). The Sultan’s Seal was translated into fourteen languages and shortlisted for the 2006 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. Jenny grew up in Germany and New York, spent eight years in Turkey, and now lives in the Boston area. She also writes a blog about contemporary Turkey: http://kamilpasha.com. Email: jennywhit [at] gmail.com Website: http://jennywhite.net
	George Wilkinson George Wilkinson is an assistant professor of Pediatrics at a college in the Midwest. His blogging interests include development, neuroscience, genomics, and evolution. Email: g3.wilkinson [at] gmail.com
	Joshua Yarden Josh Yarden is a Philadelphia based writer, editor, and educational consultant. A father of three, Josh has devoted the last several decades to making sense of stories, creating new ones, coaching, teaching and learning. He has a BA in Middle East Studies from McGill University, an MA in Israel Studies from the University of Haifa, and a PhD in Education, Culture & Society from the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote a dissertation entitled, Embracing Complexity, on cultural transformation through reflective practice in experiential learning. Josh is currently working on three related collections of essays: Jelly Beans, with and for the One Step Away vendors on the streets of Philadelphia; Expanding the Comfort Zone, on the nature of experiential learning; and Seeing Light Reflected, close translations and reinterpretations of transcendent experiences in biblical literature. Email: jyarden [at] gmail.com
	Frederick William Zackel Fred Zackel has taught literature and the humanities for twenty years at Bowling Green State University. He has written several novels and more than 90 short stories and essays. His darker works are available through Kindle, smashwords and the Nook. Email: fzackel [at] bgsu.edu
	Olivia Zhu Olivia Zhu currently resides and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, she graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Harvard University, where she was also Publisher of the Harvard Political Review. Interests of note include predictive policing, poetry, public transportation, and (taking a break from alliteration) the science of cooking. Email: olivia.z.zhu [at] gmail.com
	Randolyn Zinn Randolyn Zinn is a writer and choreographer (original Broadway production of Sunday In The Park with George) residing in NYC. Her fiction and poetry have been published by Carve, Best of Carve, Maisonneuve, South Dakota Review, Rhapsoidia, Driftwood, Naugatuck River Review and Vox. One story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Having earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, the opening chapters of her just-completed novel The Giselle Room won the program's first Chapbook Competition. This past year she spent a month in Spain on a travel grant from the Jerome Foundation for a collection of prose poems she's writing about flamenco. Zinn has taught actors at Juilliard, Circle In The Square Theatre School and most recently undergrad literature and writing at Pace University. Email: rzinn [at] mac.com