Dan Ferber is an award-winning science journalist. As a freelancer, he wrote for Reader’s Digest, Popular Science, and New Scientist and was a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. As well, he coauthored — with Paul Epstein, MD, of Harvard Medical School — Changing Planet, Changing Health, a book that offers groundbreaking coverage of the public-health impacts of climate change. He recently started working as a science writer for the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a Tai chi instructor.