Gina Kolata
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Gina Bari Kolata (born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 25, 1948) is a science journalist for The New York Times. Her sister was the environmental activist Judi Bari, and her mother was the mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari.
Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. She joined Science magazine as a copy editor in 1973, and wrote for the American Association for the Advancement of Science journal from 1974 until she moved to The New York Times in September 1987.[1] She is a "self-proclaimed exercise addict (who thinks nothing of a 100-mile bike ride as a reward)" according to a Times advertisement for itself.[2]
[edit] Books
- Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead, ISBN 0-688-16634-2
- Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, ISBN 0-7432-0398-4
- Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, ISBN 0-316-07524-8 (out of print)
- The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine, ISBN 0-440-21011-9 (out of print)
- Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise, ISBN 0-374-20477-2
- Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss - and the myths and realities of dieting. Picador. 2007. ISBN 0-312-42785-9.
[edit] Notes
- ^ SourceWatch. Gina Kolata.
- ^ Advertising supplement (with no title, but part of the "These Times Demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the supplement's back page) to The New York Times, October 31, 2006, page ZK7 of the supplement
[edit] External links
- Recent and archived news articles by Gina Kolata of The New York Times.
- Sourcewatch article on Gina Kolata
- Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata, Official Book site
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