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Charles Seife
Charles Seife, a professor of journalism at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has been writing about physics and mathematics for more than two decades. He is the author of six books, including Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2000), Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (2008), and Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception (2014).
Before arriving at NYU, Seife was a writer for Science magazine and had been a U.S. correspondent for New Scientist. His writing has also appeared in The Economist, Scientific American, ProPublica, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Discover, Slate, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and numerous other publications.