Rowan Hooper
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ROWAN HOOPER is podcast editor at New Scientist and host of the New Scientist Weekly podcast. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and worked in a conservation biology lab in Japan for five years, before joining the Japan Times in Tokyo and later taking up a fellowship in a physics lab at Trinity College Dublin. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, Wired, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and he is the author of Superhuman and How to Spend a Trillion Dollars. He lives in London with his partner and two daughters.