Brooke Borel
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Brooke Borel | |
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 Brooke Borel | |
| Born | |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | New York University, John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Program, MA in Humanities and Social Thought, (Focus: Science Studies/History of Science/Gender Theory) 2007
Boston University, College of Engineering, BS in Biomedical Engineering, 2002 [1] |
| Occupation | Science journalist |
| Website | brookeborel |
Brooke Borel is a science journalist, scientist,and author.[1][2][3][4]
Borel most famous work is Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. She has also written about biotech in agriculture and pesticides used on cannabis. She became most noted for writing the history of the bed bug for Popular Science, the Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight, BuzzFeed News, The Guardian, Scientific American, and Undark Magazine.
She is a contributing editor at Popular Science and editor-at-large at Undark. The Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have supported her work. Brooke borel is not only an author, journalist, and editor, but she also teaches writing workshops at the Brooklyn Brainery and New York University. Her work began after a college experience living in New York. She later decided to begin studying bed bugs.[5]
Her list of narratives include: Popular Science, Undark, BuzzFeed, and On Earth. She also has a list of features including: Quanta, NOVA Next, and Undark. Her essays include: FiveThirtyEight, The Guardian, and Aeon Magazine. She also has magazine packages with popular science. Her infographics are shown in both Popular Science and Bicycling magazines.[6]
Her most famous work “Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World” was published in 2015. The book discusses what bed bugs are, how to get rid of them, where they come from, and more introductory information.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Borel, Brooke (May 15, 2015). "Scientists feed bed bugs (on purpose)".
- ^ Borel, Brooke (April 7, 2016). "The Scientist Pot Farmer: On the Hunt for Safe Cannabis Agriculture".
- ^ Borel, Brooke (April 2015). "TED Blog".
- ^ Borel, Brooke (October 27, 2017). "When GMOs Are the Movie Star". Scientific American.
- ^ "Brooke Borel". World Science Festival. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Portfolio". Brooke Borel. 7 May 2020. Archived from the original on 2011-02-08. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
- ^ "Infested: how the bedbug infiltrated our bedrooms and took over the world". 7 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
External links
[edit]Articles Brooke Borel wrote, or talks she gave
[edit]- On her bedbug work
- Articles Brooke Borel wrote, in Scientific American
- Brooke Borel's TED talks
- Brooke Borel on fact-checking
- Brooke Borel, on sex in sports
- Brooke Borel, on fake news
An interview with Brooke Borel
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