University of Georgia (BA) University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA)
Occupations
Professor
blogger
journalist
author
director
science writer
Known for
The Poisoner's Handbook
Spouse
Peter Haugen[1]
Children
2
Website
deborahblum.com
Deborah Blum (born October 19, 1954) is an American science journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] She is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook (2010)[3] and The Poison Squad (2018),[4] and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired.[5]
As a science writer for the Sacramento Bee, Blum wrote a series of articles examining the professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research and animal rights activists who oppose that research. Titled "The Monkey Wars," the series won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.[6]
^"Deborah Blum, Master of Reinvention!". NewspaperAlum.
^"Faculty & Staff | Knight Science Journalism at MIT". Faculty and staff listing for Knight Science Journalism at MIT. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
^"The Poisoner's Handbook". Publisher's product display. Penguin Group. Retrieved 2013-11-01. Quote: "Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry."
^[1]. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
^"Deborah Blum, author at Wired". Wired. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
^"Beat Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
DeborahBlum (born October 19, 1954) is an American science journalist and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute...
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was jointly founded in 2016 by Pulitzer Prize-winning science author DeborahBlum and former New York Times journalist Tom Zeller Jr., who serves as editor-in-chief...
Lauper played a psychic in search of a city of gold in South America. DeborahBlum and Tony Ganz produced the film, with David Wolff as associate producer...
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and fighting against environmental destruction in the Sierra Nevada). DeborahBlum – science writer Renée C. Byer – photojournalist Gil Duran – California...
polygamous. Anthropologist Bobbi Low says we are "slightly polygamous", while DeborahBlum believes we are "ambiguously monogamous", and slowly moving away from...
as a screenwriter. Tony Ganz and DeborahBlum hired him in 1986 to oversee development for their Disney-based Blum/Ganz Productions; in 1987 he began...
Science Quarterly. XXVI (4): 741. December 1911. Retrieved August 1, 2009. DeborahBlum (2018). The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food...
and autonomy. DeborahBlum, a science journalist, criticized Harlow's work; criticisms by her and by his colleagues, collected by Blum, mentioned almost...
baby monkeys are separated from their mothers. Journalist and author DeborahBlum has described its strategy as "pure pit bull. It picks a target carefully...
séance sitters were deluded or "glamoured" by her presence. According to DeborahBlum, Palladino had a habit of "climbing into the laps of the male" investigators...
Nineteenth Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. DeborahBlum. (2006). Ghost Hunters, William James and the Search for Scientific Proof...
United States Original language English Production Executive producers DeborahBlum Tony Ganz Doug Chapin Barry Krost Robert M. Sertner Frank von Zerneck...
monsters like me. In the audience were science journalists Connie St Louis, DeborahBlum and Ivan Oransky, who found Hunt's remarks highly inappropriate. They...
1961, E) Robert Bloch (1917–1994, US) Lawrence Block (born 1938, US) DeborahBlum (born 1954, US) Ernest Borneman (1915–1995, G/Austria) Ernest Bramah...
The site is funded by the National Association of Science Writers. DeborahBlum has endorsed the site. "About Us". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29...
Dyson 2011: Mary Roach 2012: Dan Ariely 2013: Siddhartha Mukherjee 2014: DeborahBlum 2015: Rebecca Skloot 2016: Amy Stewart 2017: Hope Jahren 2018: Sam Kean...
years later. Extensive medical records of his case are accessible. As DeborahBlum describes, drinking alcohol poisoned with methyl alcohol would cause...
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