Brooke Borel
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Brooke Borel | |
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 Brooke Borel | |
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| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | New York University, John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Program, [1] |
| Occupation | Science journalist |
| Website | brookeborel |
Brooke Borel is a science journalist, scientist,and author.[1][2][3][4]
Life and career
Brooke Borel most famous work was her book 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]
Works by Brooke Borel
Brooke Borel is an author and journalist with a list of works ranging from books to infographics. Her list of narratives include: Popular Science, Undark, Buzzfeed News, 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
References
- ^ 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. "TED Blog".
- ^ Borel, Brooke (October 27, 2017). "When GMOs Are the Movie Star".
- ^ "Brooke Borel". World Science Festival. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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External links and references
Brooke Borel's personal pages
Articles Brooke Borel wrote, or talks she gave
- On her bedbug work
- Articles Brooke Borel wrote, in Scientific American
- A reference on Brooke Borel
- A long article Brooke Borel wrote
- 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
Reviews of Brooke Borel's work
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