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I'm posting items and discussing Superdove this month on Gather.com.

Superdove sightings:
"Don't Pigeonhole Them" in USA Today
"Reassessing the Pigeon" on NPR's On Point
More Superdove in the news

I'm a freelance writer in Boston specializing in features, books, and research news about medicine, science, and nature. I'm the author of SUPERDOVE, a natural history of pigeons, published in August 2008 by Smithsonian Books/Harper-Collins. I've written for Harvard Magazine, MIT's Technology Review, Harvard Medical School's Focus, the Improper Bostonian, Newsweek, E Magazine, and other publications. I am coauthor of two Harvard Medical School guides on nutrition, and a graduate of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing. I've tackled topics from the inner workings of a synapse to the psychology of shopping, and my work follows the path of my curiosity. I look for stories that show the hidden meanings and paradoxes in our world.