Archive for November 6th, 2008
Next week my weekly Scientific American column about former Westinghouse Science Talent Search finalists celebrates its 6 month birthday. The series, called “Where Are They Now?” has profiled Nobel Prize winners, nuns, doctors, teachers, inventors, linguists and so forth. It’s been a great experience for me in learning how to write about science for a general audience. You can read the columns here.
Laura Vanderkam is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010) and Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007). She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, and her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, Scientific American, Wired, The American, Portfolio and other publications.
Write to her at lvanderkam at yahoo dot com.