Saturday, November 11, 2006
Jennifer Ouellette
Jennifer Ouellette is a former English major turned science writer. She has written extensively for the science trade press, and in Discover magazine and Salon. She's covered the acoustics of Mayan pyramids and NYC subways, the physics of foam, optics and art, and the precarious pitfalls of pseudoscience, among other colorful topics. She is author of two books for the general public: Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics (published in January 2006) and the forthcoming The Physics of the Buffyverse (January 2007), both through Penguin.
Her excellent science blog is Cocktail Party Physics.