Contributors

Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at Edinburgh University where he teaches historical geography and the history of science. He has a regular byline at The Guardian and has also written for Aeon Magazine, The Herald, The Age, The Australian, the LRB Books blog, amongst others publications.

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge. He has often visited and taught in Japan.

Dinah Mack, a writer, earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies, and her master's in cultural anthropology.

Carol K. Mack is a playwright whose plays have been produced off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the United States. A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits, written with her daughter Dinah Mack, was published by Profile Books in 2008 and in paperback as A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits in 2010. Carol K. Mack has been Assistant Professor of Creative writing at New York University where she received an MA in Comparative Religious Studies in 1992.www.carolkmack.com

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde (husband and wife) are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) in Phoenix, Arizona, where they study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience. They have collaborated with Teller (of Penn & Teller) in their academic work, and their research has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, New Scientist and Wired magazine.

Margaret MacMillan is the author of Women of the Raj and international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers, which won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book, The War that Ended Peace, was published by Profile. She is now the Warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.

Chantal Lyons is a naturalist and science communicator who works with fishers in the UK and beyond to protect marine megafauna from bycatch. Her first book, Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain's Wild Boar, won the BES Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

Jon Lomberg is an artist famous for his many collaborations with Carl Sagan, including COSMOS and CONTACT. He is the author of Murmurs of the Earth, co-authored with Sagan, as well as The Grand Cosmic Story and Voyager's Golden Record.

He was Design Director for the Voyager Golden Record. He also helped design four message artifacts on spacecraft now on Mars. Lomberg has an asteroid named after him for his many contributions to science communication. He lives in Kona Hawaii.

Flo Longhorn has worked for many years with children with severe learning difficulties, both in Britain and in the United States. She now works as a special consultant in special needs in the UK and abroad.

Nick Lovegrove is a veteran consultant, executive coach and writer. He is currently the U.S. Managing Partner of the Brunswick Group, a global corporate advisory firm. Formerly a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in the United States and the United Kingdom, Lovegrove has been a senior fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.