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Rowan Hooper is podcast editor at New Scientist and host of the New Scientist Weekly podcast. He has been at New Scientist for over 15 years, covering all aspects of science. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and worked in a conservation biology lab in Japan for five years, before joining the Japan Times in Tokyo and later taking up a fellowship in a physics lab at Trinity College Dublin. His work has also appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, Wired, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He lives in London with his partner and two daughters. His latest books are Superhuman - Life at the extremes of mental and physical ability and How to Spend a Trillion Dollars – The 10 global problems we can actually fix.
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