I’m a writer and editor covering science, technology, and the mind. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Quanta, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Harper’s, exploring subjects from artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics to deception and the psychology of everyday life.

I’m an editor for TIME’s Most Influential Companies and senior producer and head writer of Life With Machines, a podcast about AI and the people shaping it that has won a Webby and four Signal Awards. I also executive-produced two seasons of Late Night I.T., a technology series on Bloomberg.

My first book, Fooling Houdini, used magic to explore the science of perception. A national bestseller and one of Amazon’s ten best nonfiction books of the year, it has been taught in psychology and neuroscience courses. I’m now writing Rumor Has It, a book about gossip, reputation, and trust, forthcoming from Flatiron Books. I live in New York City with my family.

Earlier in my career, I trained as physicist at Columbia, where I earned a master’s degree and conducted research in experimental cosmology, studying the early universe. live in New York City with my family.