Andrew Lawler...
is a senior writer with Science Magazine, and freelance writer for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discover, Archaeology, Audubon, American Archaeology, Air & Space, Columbia Journalism Review, and other magazines. He has written hundreds of articles on topics ranging from asteroids to zebrafish; interviewed politicians such as Dan Quayle and Al Gore, visionaries like Arthur C. Clarke, and scientists ranging from Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson to Nobelist Sam Ting. During a quarter-century of reporting, he has filed stories from more than two dozen countries, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Iran, Mongolia, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Yemen. When not waiting for his luggage at airport carousels, he lives in Whitefield, Maine, on the Sheepscot River.