Fred Guterl is executive editor of Scientific American and author of The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It (Bloomsbury 2012). He has won writing awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (for “Riddles in the Sand” in 1998, in Discover), the Overseas Press Club (for The Wasteland in 2002, in Newsweek International), and others. He led Scientific American to its first-ever award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2011. Guterl was formerly deputy editor at Newsweek International. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, the Today Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and others. Guterl holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and has taught science writing at Princeton University.