A contributing editor and correspondent for The Atlantic, Ellen Ruppel Shell has covered the intersection of science, technology, culture and commerce for print, on-line and broacast here and abroad, including The Washington Post, The New York Times (magazine, op-ed, book review), The Boston Globe, The Guardian (UK), Smithsonian Magazine, Discover, Technology Review, Seed, Audubon, and PBS. In addition to CHEAP, she is author of: The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin (Grove, 2002) and A Child’s Place (Little, Brown, 1992.) An award winning author and National Magazine Award finalist, she has served as a visiting fellow in occupational health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and as a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches at Boston University, where she is co-director of the Graduate Program in Science Journalism. She blogs regularly for The Atlantic.com at To Reason and Beyond.