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Kathryn Schulz Makes a Life’s Work of Looking Twice
She turned error into an intellectual adventure, a fault line into public knowledge, and two small words - lost and found - into a map of a life.
Michael Nielsen Left Quantum Computing to Redesign How Ideas Happen
He helped write quantum computing's standard textbook, then walked away from tenure to work on a harder problem: building better conditions for discovery.
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning British-American science journalist best known for his eight years at The Atlantic, where he wrote over 750 stories including landmark COVID-19 coverage that earned him journalism's highest honor in 2021. Author of two acclaimed bestsellers - 'I Contain Multitudes' (2016) and 'An Immense World' (2022) - he translates complex biology and animal sensory science into vivid, empathetic prose that has won him the George Polk Award, Carnegie Medal, Royal Society Science Book Prize, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. Now an independent journalist, he publishes the newsletter 'The Ed's Up' and remains one of the most distinctive voices in science communication.