For the past two decades, Jacob Berkowitz has told the story
of science at its frontier. He’s taught high-school biology to fundamentalist
Christian students, been the press officer for the Canadian Museum of Nature,
and a science writer and journalist readers know for topics from donut
invention to Canadians’ propensity for vasectomies.
Berkowitz is the best-selling author of Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs
(and Others) Left Behind, winner of the 2007 American
Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. His book Out of This World: The
Amazing Search for an Alien Earth was selected as a
SkyNews best astronomy book for 2009. Berkowitz lives in Almonte, ON, with his
wife, the painter Rosemary Leach, and their two children. www.jacobberkowitz.com
