Alan Burdick joined The New Yorker in 2012, first as a senior editor and then also as the editor of Elements, newyorker.com’s science-and-tech blog. He worked previously as an editor at Times Magazine, Discover, and OnEarth, and as a writer and producer at the American Museum of Natural History. He has written for magazines including Harper’s and GQ, and is the author, most recently, of Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation. His previous book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, from 2005, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.