Seth Shulman is a Massachusetts-based journalist and author. A graduate of Harvard University, he has written five books and hundreds of articles for magazines including The Atlantic, Discover, Nature, Parade, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Technology Review and Time. He was the author of a seminal 2004 report for the Union of Concerned Scientists that charged the administration of George W. Bush with a lack of scientific integrity in policymaking. A signature campaign related to this report garnered the signatures of 14,000 scientists in the United States. In 2004-2005, he was the first-ever Science Writing Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT where he conducted research on his latest book, The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret, (W.W. Norton 2008) chosen as one of the “best books of 2008” by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association. More information about him is available at his website: www.sethshulman.com.