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 |