Contributors

Laurence C. Smith is professor and vice-chairman of geography and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published in journals such as Science and Nature and in 2006 he briefed Congress on the likely impacts of northern climate change. The hardback was published by Profile in 2011 [9781846688768].

Dr Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and mental health writer. She has written for popular publications such as Slate, Salon, New York Magazine, Lifehacker, Bustle, and Counseling Today, among many others. She completed her PhD in Counseling at George Washington University, and she teaches as an adjunct professor at Trinity Washington University and George Washington University. She also serves as an associate faculty member of Georgetown's Bowen Center for the Study of the Family.

David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and the author of a number of books including The Dragon and the Elephant [9781847650474] and classic guide to economics Free Lunch [9781781250112].

Cath Smith is a qualified social worker with deaf people and a registered BSL interpreter.

Richard Smyth is a writer and cartoonist. He's a regular contributor to magazines including History Today, Bird Watching and New Humanist and his creative writing has appeared in Cent, Vintage Script, The Fiction Desk and The Stinging Fly.

Alan Sokal is Professor of Physics at the University of New York. In 1996 his infamous article 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' parodying post-modernists' use of scientific terminology was published by the American journal Social Text in all seriousness.

Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town, honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.

Hannah Lucinda Smith is a writer, consultant and reporter for The Times and The Economist who has spent over 14 years covering the Middle East and the Balkans. A consistent Pulitzer grantee, she has also contributed to the Atlantic, Monocle, Spectator, Wired and TLS, among others, and has featured on BBC TV and radio. She is the author of Erdogan Rising and the co-writer of Zarifa. She is based in Istanbul.

David Shukman has been a television news reporter for more than three decades. He reported live from East Berlin during the fall of the wall, and was the first journalist to film Soviet nuclear weapons. He became Science & Environment Correspondent in 2003, after years on the frontline of conflicts such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Tajikistan.

The author of Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television, Lee Siegel is a cultual
commentator and art critic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Kate Simants spent several years as an investigative undercover journalist for Channel 4 and the BBC. She was shortlisted for a CWA Debut Dagger for her first novel Lock Me In and won the UEA Literary Festival scholarship to study for an MA in Crime Fiction. She graduated with distinction. Her second novel, A Ruined Girl, won the Bath Novel Award. Her third novel, Freeze, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. She lives near Bristol with her family.

Navid Sinaki is an artist, filmmaker and poet. He was born in Tehran and currently lives in Los Angeles. His works have screened at museums and art houses around the world, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Lincoln Center, British Film Institute, REDCAT, and Cineteca Nacional in Mexico. His writing has most recently appeared in BOMB Magazine. He is a professor at UCLA Extension and a film programmer, most notably at the Echo Park Film Center www.navidsinaki.com