Writer
CurrentI write about science, especially sciences that touch on human behavior. After decades writing about identity and conflict, I've shifted recently to write more about how people relate to technology, and to one another through technology. My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Nature, Smithsonian, Aeon, Nautilus, The New Republic and many other publications. My book, ``Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind'' was published by Little, Brown in 2005 and in paperback (with a new subtitle, "The Science of Identity") by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. My newsletter about robotics in people's lives, "Robots for the Rest of Us," is on Substack.