An award-winning science reporter uncovers the growing threat to America's food supply caused by genetic manipulation of crops that produces large, attractive produce that is vulnerable to fungi, global warming, and other dangers because of its genetic uniformity.
Paul Raeburn is a writer, and author, most recently, of Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, published by Broadway Books. He is now at work on Do Fathers Matter, to be published in 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He contributes to Scientific American, The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, among others.
His blogs include the Knight Science Journalism Tracker (ksjtracker.mit.edu), About Fathers for Psychology Today (psychologytoday.com/blog/about-fathers), and Fathers and Families (fathersandfamilies.blogspot.com). (The latter two will be relatively quiet until he meets his book deadline.)
Raeburn is a former senior editor and senior writer at Business Week, and science editor and chief science correspondent at The Associated Press.
He is also the organizer of the annual national writers' conference New Horizons in Science, which will be held next at The University of Texas at Austin, October, 2009.
