Bio
Emily Anthes is a freelance science and health writer. Her work has appeared in Seed, Scientific American Mind, Discover, Slate, Good, New York, Popular Mechanics, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The St. Petersburg Times. She is also the author of the Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). She has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her dog, Milo.