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For nearly three decades, Stephen S. Hall has written about the intersection of science and society in books, magazine articles, and essays. He is the author, most recently, of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (2010), which grew out of a 2007 cover article in The New York Times Magazine.

His previous books include Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and the Men They Become (2006), Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension (2003), A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System (1997), Mapping the Next Millennium: How Computer-Driven Cartography Is Revolutionizing the Face of Science (1992), and Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene (1987) For nearly three decades, Stephen S. Hall has written about the intersection of science and society in books, magazine articles, and essays. He is the author, most recently, of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (2010), which grew out of a 2007 cover article in The New York Times Magazine.

His previous books include Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and the Men They Become (2006), Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension (2003), A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System (1997), Mapping the Next Millennium: How Computer-Driven Cartography Is Revolutionizing the Face of Science (1992), and Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene (1987). Most titles were acknowledged as a “Notable Book of the Year” by the New York Times Book Review.

Hall has received numerous awards, including the “Science in Society Award” in 2004 for book writing from the National Association of Science Writers for Merchants of Immortality, which was also a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the William B. Coley Award in 1998 from the Cancer Research Institute for A Commotion in the Blood. His work has also been widely anthologized, including in Best American Science Writing (2000, 2001, 2008, 2009), A Literary Companion to Science (1990), and The Beholder’s Eye (2005).

Between 1997 and 2000, Hall served as an editor of the New York Times Magazine as well as a Contributing Writer, and has published numerous cover stories for the Magazine. In addition to the New York Times, his journalism has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, New York, Science, The New Yorker, Technology Review, Scientific American, Discover, Smithsonian, and many other national publications. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Orion, and the Hastings Center Report.

In addition to writing, Hall teaches science journalism and explanatory journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and also conducts writing workshops for scientists-in-training at New York University’s Carter Institute of Journalism. His many public appearances include a keynote address at the Keystone Symposium, grand rounds at university medical centers, lectures at the Hastings Center, and readings that have been featured on “Book TV.”

Hall graduated as an honors student in English literature from Beloit College in 1973, and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two children. ...more

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	Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience 3.75 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World 4.18 avg rating — 261 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science Writing 2000 by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jesse Cohen (Series Editor), Oliver Sacks (Reading) 4.01 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System 4.24 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen S. Hall, James D. Watson 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension 3.63 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys - and the Men They Become 3.30 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mapping the Next Millennium: The Discovery of New Geographies 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“But the initial drama lies in what didn’t make it into the paper. To start, there was the loud, rancorous cell phone argument that broke out as Hamidreza Marvi, the lead author on the eventual study, stood in line for final boarding of a plane at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for a trip to Arizona to catch the rattlesnakes to be used in the experiment. “Whoever’s on the other end is just screaming at him, in Farsi, so I have no idea what anyone’s talking about,” recalled Joseph Mendelson, one of Marvi’s traveling companions. Mendelson could tell Marvi was agitated, but insisted he hang up because the flight was going to leave. It was then that Marvi, born and educated in Iran, sheepishly admitted, “That was my mother. She just figured out the real reason we’re going to Arizona.”
― Stephen S. Hall, Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

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“Part of the enduring mythology about Asklepios, the god of healing, is that he may have acquired his prodigious healing powers when a snake whispered its secrets into his ear. Modern science is recapitulating this ancient transfer of biological wisdom, with snakes now whispering molecular secrets. But our contemporary demigods of molecular biology might revisit Pindar’s account of Asklepios’s ultimate fate as a healer: smote by that thunderbolt hurled by Zeus to erase the possibility of immortalization in the world of mortals. Even nature’s stop signs are there for a reason.”
― Stephen S. Hall, Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

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“Even though January is not considered prime hunting season, we had reason to be cautiously optimistic. The week before I joined her in the field, Kalil had a banner day, snagging four big pythons, including a 13-footer; three of the captures were females, and among them she counted 100 eggs (she has been known to use python eggs to bake Christmas cookies). “This woman is incredible, she gets the snakes to come to her,” said Rodriguez, who met Kalil when she was PTA president and he was PTA treasurer at the middle school their kids attended in Miami.”
― Stephen S. Hall, Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

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