Featured Bloggers

Sharon Benjamin has a BA in Biology from Bowdoin College, and an eclectic resume. She has held bearcubs in Maine; studied sustainable development and eco-tourism while traveling in Costa Rica; and volunteered on research surveys off the northeast coast for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She just finished her most recent venture – managing a successful political campaign in New York City – and has just started at Duke’s Masters in Environmental Management program at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She currently lives in Manhattan.

Linda Brodsky, MD, (Dana’s mother) is among a small number of U.S. women to have achieved the rank of tenured full professor in Otolaryngology and Pediatrics. Dr. Brodsky founded Buffalo’s award-winning Center for Pediatric Quality and worked for almost 20 years as the founder and director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and Communication Disorders at the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. She is currently a practicing physician and surgeon. Dr. Brodsky is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, where she majored in History of Religion and minored in Chemistry. She graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed her residency training at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. One of Dr. Brodsky’s current passions, combating gender discrimination in healthcare, is the result of an almost-ten year legal battle based on her claims of gender discrimination in the workplace. Though her court cases were resolved in 2008, they continue to fuel her commitment to equal rights. Dr. Brodsky’s site can be found at www.lindabrodskymd.com. She also blogs regularly at www.thebrodskyblog.com.

Lynn Brunelle, an Emmy Award-winning writer for Bill Nye, the Science Guy television series, is a former classroom science, English, and art teacher. A best-selling author and illustrator, she has produced over 40 titles, including Pop Bottle Science (Workman). Lynn has developed and written projects for National Geographic, A&E, The Discovery Channel, Disney, PBS, Nickelodeon, ABC-TV, Chronicle Books and Workman Publishing. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two young sons and a small menagerie of animals.

My name is Julian Cohen-Serrins. I witness kindness, compassion and perseverance everyday. The world around me has been an inspiring and interesting place, so as long as I am able, I plan to help keep it that way. The world faces many serious and arduous problems today, problems that we all need to face as people and living beings. I would like to be part of the solution and that is why I have started a new blog, Julian’s Solutions.

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Betty Diop is finishing high school in two years. She is a senior at the High School for Medical Sciences in the Bronx. In college, she would like to study psychology.

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Sharaldine Francisco is a junior at the Young Women’s Leadership School in East Harlem.  She wants to become a pediatrician and open a practice with her sister, who is majoring in psychology.”
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Dana Greenfield completed her undergraduate education in Biology and Cultural Anthropology at Barnard College in 2006, then moved to New Zealand to complete a Fulbright in medical anthropology. She then headed to California to begin her medical school career. She is now studying medical anthropology as a second-year MD/PhD student at University of California, San Francisco. In her spare time Dana can be found hanging out in San Francisco’s music scene, singing in the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, or taking advantage of coffee shops, food and hiking trails in her new hometown.

Hugh Lippincott is a graduate student at Yale University studying physics. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a “cocktail party” version of what I do, and I hope to expand upon that at great length here. The first post and maybe the first several posts will be very general, and then I will delve deeper into the elements of those general posts in detail. I welcome questions and comments if something is not clear or if I am doing something wrong.

For all intents and purposes, my name is Jesse M. S. I am a skeptic and a critical thinker, which is all it should take to write a blog such as mine. I grew up on New York City’s Upper West Side and spend most of my time now traveling back and forth from New York to Washington, DC. Over the course of my travels I inevitably run into numerous ridiculous people, experiences, and things that our society simply ignores, embraces, or takes for granted. The goal or mission, if you will, of my blog “Jesse Battles Ridiculousness” is to string out and expose the ridiculous notions we as a people face everyday and in turn encourage readers to follow this simple yet useful mantra: Be Skeptical, Be Critical, Take Nothing on Faith.

Dr. Molly has a dual PhD in neuroscience and integrative physiology. She earned her degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she studied the impacts of stress on health and the protective effects of exercise on overall well-being. As such, Molly maintains an active lifestyle and can often be found running, swimming, cycling, or skiing. Her professional responsibilities are equally rigorous. Molly is a scientific director at a medical education company where she helps to keep physicians up-to-date on therapeutic advances in their fields.

Rosalee Washington is a junior at Harlem Village Academy, a charter school in East Harlem. She wants to become a medical doctor and practice with her sister, who is a nurse.

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Ziggy Zacks is a senior at Pelham High School in Pelham, NY.  He loves physics, chemistry and basketball — and just returned from the 2010 AAU Boys Basketball Championships.  In spring 2010, he and his robotics team placed third in the New York State Science Olympiad.

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Former Bloggers

Talia Page is a freelance writer and aspiring astronaut. She is currently writing a book about globalization and has embarked on a mission to become an astro-journalist via the Virgin Galactic. To follow her adventure around the globe and into orbit, keep an eye on her blog on Talking Science or www.SpaceCadetGirl.com.

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Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress and the author of two books The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming.

Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist, and former congressional staffer, and radio jock now based at Duke University. Together, Sheril and Chris blog at The Intersection. They helped found ScienceDebate2008, and co-authored Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.

Stephanie: I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where I am wrapping up my Ph.D. degree in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology. After a lifetime spent admiring how pretty living things are, I decided to get my lab on and go study them. I have been studying the way that cells (bakers’ and brewers’ yeast cells, to be more precise) work these last few years in school, and keep looking for newer and prettier ways to take pictures of the inside of cells in all their microscopic glory. While letting blood, crying tears, and sweating buckets to get my degree, I have been a writer for music and fashion magazines, worked with Human Rights Watch to help my interest in social justice unfold, and developed programs for science for the public. It is this last activity that has become my biggest passion: sharing science with people who aren’t working in the lab-kids, my friends, strangers on airplanes (yes, I am sometimes that girl) my family. The more people I can turn on to how cool, weird and gorgeous science is, the better!

Jane Palmer, Ph.D., is a science and environmental writer/journalist living in Boulder, Colorado. She has an eclectic science background with a degree in Cognitive Science and a Ph.D. in computational molecular biology. After a stint working in the National Renewable Energy Laboratories she became interested in environmental issues and how to communicate research science to the public. When she isn’t researching or writing she is out rock-climbing in the Rocky Mountains with her husband Gareth, and daughter Iona.

Miriam Gordon is a freelance science writer with a keen interest in the way scientific discoveries impact our society. She began her exploration of these interests as a Christine Mirzayan intern at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, in the Division of Science, Technology and Law. Miriam received her Ph.D. in Developmental and Molecular Biology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Sue Golding Graduate Division of Medical Sciences, in September 2001. She studied the regulation of gene expression during Drosophila embryonic development in Dr. E. Richard Stanley’s lab. Prior to graduate school, Miriam worked as a technician on a colon cancer project in the lab of Dr. I. Bernard Weinstein at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She receivedher BA in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University, Newark College of Arts and Sciences.