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 Al Gore and visionaries like Arthur C. Clarke; and 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.