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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Kristen French is a senior editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

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Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

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<div class="individual-author">Alexandra Witze is a science journalist in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author, with Jeff Kanipe, of <a href="https://profilebooks.com/work/island-on-fire/">Island on Fire</a>, a book about the 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki.</div>
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