David M. Ewalt is editor in chief of Scientific American. Previously he served as an editor at the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Reuters and Forbes Magazine. He is author of the books Defying Reality: ...

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Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and director of the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University. He studies how the human brain learns and remembers.