Writing for a popular science news outlet was the perfect way for me to spend the summer after finishing my Ph.D. in math at Rice University. I walked into the Scientific American offices not really sure what to expect. By the end of my first day, I had successfully proposed an article about geometry labs to my editor, found a paper about "natural" selection in music that I wanted to cover, and was knee deep in freshman-year physics for an article about optics. It was a bit daunting but exhilarating as well. Over the course of the summer I wrote quite a bit about math, but I also wrote about a new battery design, the genome of a fungus used in making miso, prostate cancer screening, and much more.
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