Robert Adler

Robert Adler is a freelance science and technology writer who divides his time between Santa Rosa, California and Oaxaca, Mexico. With a background in mathematics, physics and psychology and a 20-plus year career as a clinical and neuro-psychologist, he’s been lucky enough to get to write about a wide range of scientific and technological issues and advances from Big Bang nucleosynthesis to ways to predict failed states. He’s the author of hundreds of science and technology news and feature stories plus three books, most recently Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome (Wiley, 2004), plus, with his wife, Jo Ann Wexler, Viva Oaxaca: An Insider’s Guide to Oaxaca’s Charms.

Articles

Taking stock of flash crashes

Climate change in Camelot

The wealth of nations revisited