Science journalist Jennifer Ouellette is a senior writer at Ars Technica and former science editor for Gizmodo. She is the author of four popular science books for the general public: The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (2010), The Physics of the Buffyverse (2007), and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics (2006), all published by Penguin. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Slate, Discover, Salon, Nature, Mental Floss, Physics Today, Physics World, and New Scientist, among other venues. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll.
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