Ferris JabrFerris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Scientific American. He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, i>Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. He is a recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from UC Berkeley and the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program. His work has been anthologized in the 2014, 2020, and 2023 editions of Best American Science and Nature Writing. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his husband, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and more plants than they can count. Read More Read Less