i'll start, perhaps, with alex alexandra witze, and "island on fire." as i mentioned she co-authored it with her husband. alex is an award-winning science journalist with a national reputation for elegant coverage of very highly complex topics. she began her career at earth magazine and "dallas morning news" and later served as chief of the washington news bureau of the british science journal nature. and after a stint with science news as a contributor she has now returned to "nature" as a contributing correspondent based in boulder colorado. she has a ba in geology from mut and is a graduate of the science communication program at uc san jose. santa cruz, excuse me. last year she was a journalist in residence at the santa fe institute, and among her honors is the science and society wared from the national association of science writers and the award for feature journalism. as a personal aside, as a writer myself specializing in astronomy and astrophysics i've known both alex and jeff for many years, so i was delighted to learn their book -- which was

jersey's somewhat descent my tranquil shore and start perhaps with alexandra witze and "island on fire," co-authored with her husband. alex is an award-winning science journalist with a national reputation for elegant coverage of very highly complex topics. she began her career at earth magazine and the "dallas morning news" and later served as chief of the washington news bureau of the science journal "nature." after a stint with science news as a contributor, she has now returned to "nature" as a contributing correspondent based in boulder colorado. she has a ba in geology from mit and is a graduate of the science communication program at uc san jose. santa cruz, excuse me. last year she was a journalist in residence at the santa fe institute, and among her honors is the science and society award for the national association of science writers and the american geophysical unions award for feature journalism. as a personal aside, as a writer myself specializing in astronomy and astrophysics, i've known alex and jeff for many year so i was delighted to learn their book -- which was originally published in the u.k. last ye