Stu Hutson, reactions editor

Stu doesn’t really come from anywhere. When he was a kid, his Dad was in the army. So, every three years he would pack up and move to some new and totally different place. From West Virginia to Germany. From Germany to England. From England to Texas. Texas is where he went to college, superpositioned between the Texas A&M Unviversity student newspaper and physics degree work in the school’s dank, dark laser labs. It was there, helping with some of the first work on stopping light’s speed, that a kid from nowhere in particular found his place. Lit by the sparks in the dark, amidst the background HMmmm of weird science—Stu’s goal in life became to make everyone else slightly disturbed. Knowing that you can break the rules, knowing that you’re prying away at the vice-grip perspective that has a hold on peoples’ everyday lives—that’s what makes life worth living for Stu. That’s why he writes. After college, Stu went to work covering biophysics for Photonics Spectra Magazine and Biophotonics International Magazine. Seeking to branch out, he pursued a master’s degree in Science and Medical Jounalism from Boston University. Over that fateful year and a half, he’s covered hangover pills, burn victims, the evolution of homosexuality, the science of aging and the biological fallacies behind our concept of beauty. He’s freelanced for The Weekly Dig and MIT Technology Review, and interned as a science writer for Harvard Medical University.

in resonance:

Grafting hope
New treatments promise a better recovery for burn victims.
Skewed
Symmetry is biologically beautiful, but our asymmetries make us human.
The analog universe
Knowledge is the root of all matter.
America's sexual history
Kinsey tells the story of one man's quest to shed light on a taboo subject.
Dolls in the Sun
O ur bodies shift over a matter of years, months or even hours—and often in ways that we don’t anticipate.

Contact Stu at sciencejournalist@gmail.com