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ABOUT 3 QUARKS DAILY

On this website, my guest authors and editors and I hope to present interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating. We want to provide you with a one-stop intellectual surfing experience by culling good stuff from all over and putting it in one place. In other words, we are what has come to be known as a "filter blog". And we try not to be afraid of challenging material. Please leave comments or send me an email with any comments/criticism. Thanks.

ABOUT THE NAME

When Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig postulated the existence of three new subatomic particles in 1964, Gell-Mann decided to name them "quarks", an unusual word meaning "croak" or "caw" which James Joyce had used in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!" In present-day physics, there are more than three quarks, and some are said to have properties named strangeness and charm, which, we think, describe this weblog as well. We have also used the name to symbolize our connections to science, art, and literature; and because we mistakenly thought it short and memorable.

MONDAYS AT 3QD

Though we are a filter blog on all other days, on Mondays we have only original writing by our editors and guest columnists. These are some of the current Monday columns: (All the Monday columns are conveniently collected here.)

The following write a regular column every two weeks:

S. Asad Raza (and sometimes his friends)

The following write a regular column every three weeks:

Morgan Meis
S. Abbas Raza
Robin Varghese

The following write a regular column every four weeks:

Namit Arora
Jason Socrates Bardi
Michael Blim
Evert Cilliers
Norman Costa
Gerald Dworkin
Richard Eskow
Shiban Ganju
Elatia Harris
Sam Kean
Affinity Konar
Krzysztof Kotarski
Ram Manikkalingam
Colin Marshall
Katherine McNamara
Maniza Naqvi
Jonathan Pfeiffer
Alta L. Price
Daniel Rourke
Olivia Scheck
David Schneider
Justin E. H. Smith
Aditya Dev Sood
Jeff Strabone
Bryant Urstadt
Manisha Verma

The following write a regular column every eight weeks:

Beth Ann Bovino
Jennifer Cody Epstein
Jaffer Kolb
Edward B. Rackley
P. D. Smith

And an original poem is contributed every week by:

Jim Culleny

Each of us writes on any subject we wish, and there are no length restrictions. Look for these on Mondays.

There is much more information about each of the editors and current columnists below, and also about former and/or occasional columnists.

LETTER TO 3QD READERS

On the occasion of the 1,000th post at 3QD, I wrote a letter to our readers which you can read here.
And on the occasion of the 10,010th post at 3QD, I wrote another letter which you can read here.

READER SURVEY

In April 2005 we polled our readers to see what changes they would like to see on the site. The results, along with a number of comments, can be seen here.

EDITORS

	S. Abbas Raza Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Abbas has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering & computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and graduate degrees in philosophy from Columbia University. He normally lives on Duke Ellington Boulevard in Manhattan with his wife, Margit Oberrauch, but is currently living in the small, beautiful city of Brixen in the Italian Alps. Email: s.abbas.raza [at] att.net
	Robin Varghese Robin Varghese lives in New York City and is failing at his ambition to become a self-sufficient slacker, working instead on information policy issues. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where he studied Western European political economy. Email: robinvar@yahoo.com
	Morgan Meis Morgan has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He was supposed to specialize in the Greeks and Romans but managed to write a dissertation on Walter Benjamin. Also, he is the president of an arts collective in Queens called Flux Factory. Also, he writes and edits for Old Town Review. Also, he is a senior consulting editor for the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. Email: morgan@fluxfactory.org
	Azra Raza Azra was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and is an oncologist and research scientist by profession. She lives in Manhattan with her daughter Sheherzad. In these scoundrel times, she is convinced that the best way "to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world" is by promoting and publicizing the achievements of humanity in science, art, and literature. She is specially moved by fine poetry. Email: araza [at] aptiumoncology [dot] com
	Sughra Raza Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and inspite of Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: sraza1 [at] partners.org
	Jim Culleny Jim Culleny is the Poetry Editor of 3 Quarks Daily. After a stint in the navy, Jim received a BA in Art Education from William Paterson University and did graduate work in art at NYU. He taught art for several years in NJ public schools in Newark and Bergen County. Taught a little bit of everything else during two years at a remote residential community school in New York's Adirondacks. Was a social worker in Lower Manhattan before Soho was Soho. Made a living most of his life as a carpenter, designer, and builder. Did regular radio commentary for about 10 years during Morning Edition on WFCR.FM in Amherst, Mass. and some for NPR on All Things Considered. Played and sang his way from rockabilly to jazz in numberless band permutations over a period too long to believe. Came to poetry through songwriting. Has had work published in The Third Muse Poetry Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Penthouse Journal, and in 5-Minute Pieces, a chapbook published in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. He's also been writing a regular op-ed column for the past 12 years for the Greenfield Recorder along the beautiful Connecticut River, and is presently making a living as project manager for an Architectural firm. Jim lives with his wife, Pat, of 31 years, and his 17 year old granddaughter. He has three daughters and four other grandchildren. Email: jimculleny [at] comcast.net

GUEST COLUMNISTS

In alphabetical order by last name:

	Namit Arora A travel photographer, writer, and Internet technologist, Namit was raised in India in the cow-belt city of Gwalior. His training at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bengal led him to Louisiana, precipitating his great escape to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has since worked at three failed startups and three big corporations. At least his profession has afforded him opportunities to live, work, or play in scores of countries. During a two-year break, he created an extensive photojournal on India and has recently finished his first novel. Contact him via his blog or website.
	Jason Socrates Bardi Jason graduated from the University of Hartford with degrees in physics, math, and English, and he obtained graduate degrees in molecular biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University and in science writing from JHU's Writing Seminars program. He has worked as a professional writer for a number of companies, government agencies, and private institutions, including a year as a writer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, five years as the senior science writer at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, and two years as a senior writer at the National Institutes of Health. He is author of "The Calculus Wars" (Avalon, 2006) and "The Fifth Postulate" (Wiley, 2008). He lives in College Park, MD. Email: jsbardi [at] gmail [dot] com
	Michael Blim Michael Blim teaches anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He writes about equality and global justice and is the author of Economy and Equality: The Global Challenge (2005). Email: mblim [at] gc.cuny.edu
	Beth Ann Bovino Beth Ann works as a senior economist at Standard and Poor's in Manhattan. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. Email: bethann_bovino [at] standardandpoors.com
	Evert Cilliers Evert is a writer-performer. He grew up in apartheid South Africa and was raised to be an elite Afrikaner fascist. However, something went terribly wrong in his choice of teenage reading material, and between Darwin, Freud and Bertrand Russell, he ended up rejecting his nation, his religion and his family. When a riot of white cops vs. black protesters sent a teargas canister rolling into the lobby of an ad agency heʼd just started, he thought about emigrating. Then the apartheid regime banned his first play A Very Butch Libido, and he took off for the freedom of America. He continues writing plays, novels, poetry and songs, and attended the OʼNeill Playwrights Conference in 1993 with a play about torture. In advertising, his work on the Absolut Vodka campaign rocketed the brand from nowhere to the #1 import in four years; it's now the longest-running campaign in advertising history. He performed his one-man show How to Cook a Man on three continents. His rock group, the Dingbots, created the rock opera Kidd Radar, available on iTunes and CDBaby.com; their video The Obama Karma Song is on YouTube. A semi-legend on the 1990s slam poet scene, he won the 1997 National Poetry Slam, and starred in the PBS documentary Slammin'. His poetry is anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and collected in Suck My Poem from Lulu.com. He's working on his first musical, Cinderella and the Empire of Chocolate. Email: evertcilliers [at] yahoo.com
	Norman Costa Norman teaches graduate and undergraduate psychological research methods at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He also runs his own social science research and consulting firm, eXpert Survey Systems Inc. He has a PhD in Psychology from The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Among his interests are epistemology and the philosophy of science. His love is his students, and his passion is the training of the next generation of social scientists and researchers. Email: norman.costa1 [at] marist.edu
	Gerald Dworkin Gerald Dworkin is a philosopher teaching at the University of California, Davis. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls, Oxford as well as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. From 1990-97 he was the editor of ETHICS. When not thinking about How to Live, What to Do he is thinking about Where to Eat, How to Cook. He divides his time between Sacramento and Chicago (where his two daughters and five grand-children live) and thinks the best four word sentence in English is Ring Lardner's: "Shut up he explained." Email: gdworkin [at] ucdavis.edu
	Jennifer Cody Epstein Jennifer Cody Epstein is the author of The Painter from Shanghai, an imaginative retelling of the life of Chinese prostitute-turned-post-Impressionist Pan Yuliang. Her fiction has also appeared in several literary magazines She has lived and worked in the U.S., Japan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Italy for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Mademoiselle, Self and Parents, as well as for the NBC and HBO networks. She has a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she is an adjunct professor in the School of the Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, filmmaker Michael Epstein, and their two daughters. Website: www.jennifercodyepstein.com
	Richard Eskow Richard (RJ) Eskow is a consultant and writer who has worked as a Fortune 500 executive, a software designer, a professional rock musician. He’s been a consultant in health policy, technology, and medical issues for public and private clients, domestically and in over 20 foreign countries. Richard has conducted interviews with politicians such as John Kerry and Russ Feingold, musicians like Richard Thompson and Billy Joe Shaver, and figures in the worlds of religion and science. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and is an occasional co-host for “The Young Turks” radio show, despite being neither Turkish nor particularly young. Email: reskow [at] att.net
	Shiban Ganju Shiban is the chairman of a biotechnology company in India and a practicing gastroenterologist in the USA. He travels between these two spaces frequently but lives in them simultaneously. He has been a passionate theater worker, reluctant army officer, ambitious entrepreneur, successful CEO and an active NGO volunteer. Still, he is does not know what he wants to be when he grows up; but he wants his epitaph to be "He tried." Email: skganju [at] aol.com
	Elatia Harris Elatia Harris is a personal chef and cooking teacher in Cambridge, Massachusettes. Website: http://www.lucysmomcuisine.com Email: elatia [at] lucysmomcuisine.com
	Sam Kean Sam Kean grew up in South Dakota, which means more to him than it probably should. He went to college in Minnesota, studied physics, taught for a few years, tried to move to Spain (it didn't take), and ended up in Washington, D.C. He loves writing about science far more than actually doing it, and fears he writes about life more than lives it. He has a book forthcoming from Little, Brown, and writes now for Search: The magazine of science, religion, and culture. Email: samkean [at] gmail.com
	Jaffer Kolb Jaffer Kolb is a writer based in London, where he is finishing a master's in regional and urban planning at the London School of Economics. He writes regularly about architecture and urban planning for The Architects' Journal, Blueprint, and The Architect's Newspaper. In addition, he has contributed to Metropolis, Architectural Lighting, and The Real Deal. Email: jafferkolb [at] gmail.com Website: www.jafferkolb.com
	Affinity Konar Affinity Konar grew up in California. She received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and now lives in New York City. Her first novel, The Illustrated Version of Things, will be released next spring, and she's presently working on another, about silent films and psychic frauds. Email: affinity.konar [at] gmail.com
	Krzysztof Kotarski Krzysztof was born in Warsaw in 1981 and moved to Canada at age 11, where he was first exposed to citrus fruit, the cult of Ayn Rand and Sonic the Hedgehog. After numerous attempts to get Anglophones to pronounce his name, Krzysztof became Kris, and eventually earned a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the University of Calgary where he researched arms control programs in the former Soviet Union. During the past four years, Kris has written about the world as often as he could, briefly worked for the UN, and has lived Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Geneva, Paris, Washington and Warsaw. Needless to say, he hopes to nail down a permanent address sometime soon. Email: kkotarski [at] gmail.com
	Ram Manikkalingam Ram Manikkalingam is currently a visiting professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a physicist, a radical activist, a political analyst, a political theorist, a presidential advisor, a beggar, a funder, and of course a slacker. He speaks four languages badly (and none of them are Urdu, Hindi or Punjabi). He likes to think he is a black New Yorker and a leftist Sri Lankan, but his friends and enemies say he is really a WASP from Boston.
	Colin Marshall Colin Marshall writes about film but doubles as the host of a public radio show, triples as a blogger on culture and self-engineering, quadruples as the host of a book club podcast and quintuples as a reviewer of podcasts. He loves tea, old-school R&B and the work of Abbas Kiarostami. Email: colinjmarshall [at] gmail.com
	Katherine McNamara Katherine McNamara has lived as a writer for longish times in Paris, Alaska, New York, and Charlottesville, Virginia, and traveled frequently to Ireland. Although her academic work was in European intellectual history, she has always been more curious about how ideas work their way through the world. In 1997, she founded Archipelago, an international journal of literature, the arts, opinion, and politics. She is the author of Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska, and is at work on a book of memoirs about three persons now gone who were well-known in their parts of the world and also important to her. Website: web.me.com/katherinemcnamara Email: katherinemcnamara.writer [at] gmail.com
	Maniza Naqvi Maniza Naqvi writes fiction. Her novels are: Mass Transit (OUP, Karachi, 1998); On Air (OUP, Karachi, 2000); Stay With Me (SAMA, Karachi 2004; Tara Press, India 2005); A Matter of Detail (SAMA, 2008; Tara Press, 2008); Sarajevo Saturdays (SAMA, 2009). Her short story "An Impossible Shade of Home Brew" is included in the anthology And then the World Changed (Feminst Press, 2008). Her short story "A Brief Acquaintaince" is included in Neither Night Nor Day (Harper Collins, 2007). Email: manizanaqvi195 [at] hotmail.com
	Alan S. Page Alan Page currently lives in Mexico City. He teaches English literature at UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico,) is studying Lacanian psychoanalysis at Dimensión Psicoanalítica, and is a Doctoral Candidate at the New York University English Department. His doctoral dissertation is on Anthropomorphism and the Vortex in William Blake's poetry. He works as a screenwriter, most recently on the forthcoming Mexican Tv series XY, and has been a translator for longer than he can remember. These days he tries to stick to translating only film and poetry. He is currently translating Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red into Spanish and a book of poems by the Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda into English. Alan Page has spent a lifetime being from neither here nor there. Email: alans.page [at] gmail.com
	Jonathan Pfeiffer As an undergraduate, Jonathan studied a combined curriculum of biomedical engineering, politics, philosophy, and global studies at California Lutheran University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. After living in Arlington, Virginia and working on Science Progress for a while, he returned for global studies graduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Email: jonathan [at] multivoiced.com
	Alta L. Price Educated in the so-called fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, Alta L. Price is currently acting as editor, translator, and draftswoman from her Long Island City studio. Early work in Icelandic geology and printing history inspired her incessant habit of being interested in just about everything. She practices certain obsolescent arts, including watermark making and carving signs in stone; in other words, her current work deals with the presence of the past. Email: alprice[at]earthlink[dot]net
	Edward B. Rackley Trained as an academic philosopher, Ed works in conflict and post conflict countries, mostly in Africa. His work involves setting up emergency aid programs, running them, or evaluating them. He keeps a blog on issues related to whatever country he happens to be working in, called 'Across the Divide: Analysis and Anecdote from Africa'. Blog: http://rackleyed.blogspot.com
	S. Asad Raza Asad was born and raised in Buffalo, went to college in Baltimore, and lived in London for a while. He lives in New York and enjoys ping pong, and cooking. Email: s.asad.raza at gmail
	Daniel Rourke Daniel is a teacher by design, an academic by desire and a writer by night. He has an MA in Creative Writing and an Art Writing Ph.D. under proposal. His time in London is split between eating Japanese food and not finishing books. Daniel’s newest project, MachineMachine, will make discordant soon. Email: text [at] machinemachine.net
	Olivia Scheck Olivia was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and will graduate this spring with a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University. In the past four years, she has conducted research on the cognitive abilities of capuchin monkeys, volunteered with an eye-health organization in Accra, Ghana, and edited the school's satirical tabloid. She has many marketable skills, and would be a tremendous asset to your business or organization. Email: olivia.scheck [at] gmail.com
	David Schneider David Schneider is a writer, media analyst and student of culture in New York City, with published criticism on – among other things – film, architecture, photography, fine dining, and music. He is the founder and editor of boybedlamreview.com, an online magazine of arts and ideas for the 21st century. He has an MA in English Literature from Oxford University, studied creative writing at Middlebury College, and spent seven years in Chicago. You can find out more about him, and read more of his work, at daschneider.wordpress.com Email: schneiderdavid73 [at] gmail.com
	Justin E. H. Smith Justin E. H. Smith is an American essayist, journalist, and satirist based in Montreal. He doesn't want to write satire, but, as Juvenal said, the world leaves him no choice. He is a regular contributor to Counterpunch, and has written for numerous other online publications, including N+1. His work has been linked or cited in the online editions of the Guardian, the Atlantic Monthly, the Stranger, the Washington Post, and (probably a mistake) the National Review. His archive, www.jehsmith.com, brings together writing of his available on the Internet. Quite apart from all this, Smith is also a professor of philosophy and a specialist on the life and work of G. W. Leibniz. To see his academic profile, please visit www.jehsmith.com/philosophy. Email: jehsmith@gmail.com
	P. D. Smith P. D. Smith is a British writer and independent researcher whose work explores the links between science, literature and popular culture. His most recent book is Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon, a cultural history of science, superweapons and other strangeloves. This was published in 2007 by St Martin’s Press in the US and Penguin in the UK. In 2003 he wrote a brief biography of Einstein. His PhD thesis was a study of science in German literature, and this was published in 2000 as Metaphor and Materiality. He writes a regular round-up of science and cultural history books for the Guardian Review, as well as reviewing for The Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. PD Smith can be contacted through his blog and website, Kafka’s mouse (http://www.peterdsmith.com/).
	Aditya Dev Sood Aditya is a left-handed architect who writes better than he can draw, and talks better than he can write. He expended his youth pursuing doctorates in Sanskrit Philology and Cultural Anthropology. Inspired by a vintage clothing store in NoHo that no longer exists, he started the Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) as an extended performance art piece. However, CKS was soon hijacked by corporate interests to advance their own capitalist agendas. Having wandered the world for a number of years, he has recently returned to New Delhi, the city of his childhood, where he is currently shacked-up with his girlfriend. Aditya's futile efforts to intellectually comprehend the unyielding abundance of the world provide the pathos and humor characteristic of his writings and reflections on everyday life. [Photo: Joi Ito] Email: aditya [at] cks.in
	Jeff Strabone Jeff is a native New Yorker and has a Ph.D. in English. He also holds degrees in history and political science. Besides his scholarship and activism, he is the inventor of patent-pending voting technology. His writing alternates between British and American spelling in the hope that others will share his deeply ambivalent relationship to standardization. Email: jeffstrabone [preposition] gmail
	Bryant Urstadt Bryant Urstadt is a writer living in New York. He's written for Harper's, Outside, New York, and others. He often writes about energy, finance, and the environment, but that would be pretty boring to do all the time, now wouldn't it? Email: bryant.urstadt [at] gmail.com
	Manisha Verma Manisha Verma holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in New York. After graduation in 2004 she worked for three years at a Wall Street investment bank in Manhattan and is now with a Silicon Valley technology company in California. In her non-work related waking moments,she is keeping herself swamped with yoga, piano,drums and Argentine tango lessons, a full marathon training schedule (albeit her self-proclaimed athletic incompetence), organizing casino nights for a senior center, and cooking rampages for her eager friends. Despite having spent most of her childhood in Doha in the Middle East, she considers home to be New Delhi, where she was born and hopes to return to one day after a few stints at some of the main destination cities in Europe, Asia and Australia. Email: manisha.verma [at] gmail.com

OCCASIONAL OR FORMER CONTRIBUTORS

In alphabetical order by last name:

	Marko Ahtisaari Marko Ahtisaari was born in Helsinki, Finland and grew up in Helsinki, Dar es Salaam and New York. He studied economics, philosophy and music at Columbia University in the City of New York where he subsequently lectured in logic, philosophy of economics and the history of thought. He went on to be the leader of the mobile practice at the design consultancy Satama Interactive. Currently Marko works as the Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. In the in-between moments he makes music. Blog: Marko Ahtisaari
	Saifedean Ammous Saifedean Ammous lives in New York and is a candidate for a PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He grew up in Ramallah in Colonized Palestine and has a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut and a Master's in Development Management from the London School of Economics. He supports Liverpool FC rabidly, cooks the undisputed best shrimp pasta in the world, and blogs at TheSaifHouse.wordpress.com Email: Saifedean.ammous [at] gmail.com
	Mark Blyth Mark Blyth is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a visiting professor in the UK, France, Germany, and Singapore. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century and is currently working on three projects: a book on party politics and political economy in advanced welfare states called The New Political Economy of Party Politics, an edited volume on constuctivist theory and political economy entitled Constructivist Political Economy, and a series of papers on probability, randomness, and epistemology in the social sciences, which may or may not end up a book. His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, World Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Comparative European Politics. Email: mark.blyth[at]jhu.edu
	Descha Daemgen Descha Daemgen is a doctoral candidate in the American Studies program at New York University. He is currently writing a dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature and financial speculation and working on his long-standing video project, "Two Hundred Steps to the Whitney Biennial." Email: descha.daemgen@nyu.edu
	Timothy Don Timothy Don is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is editor of Radical Society, a quarterly journal of politics and culture. He is currently at work on a novel and can be reached at info@radicalsociety.com.
	Christopher H. Heaney Born in West Australia and raised in New Jersey, Christopher H. Heaney has an undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies from Yale University. He's hacked his way through journalism and oral history up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and his work has appeared in The New Republic and Legal Affairs Magazine. He's fondest of his articles for his hometown newspaper, however. He recently spent a year working in Peru, where he was able to indulge his mild obsession with pre-Columbian ruins, dusty archives and museum dioramas. Email: chrisheaney [at] gmail.com
	Bill Hooker Bill Hooker was born in Papua New Guinea but had his schooling, second grade through PhD, in Australia. (His education, a different matter entirely, is ongoing.) Being interested in roots and beginnings, he is a molecular biologist by trade; but having not ceased to look up at the hill-tops, or the leaves on trees, or the flowers opening in the air, he is also interested in photography, poetry, community and social justice. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife Cat Connor, likes cheese and rain and late afternoon light, and can be got at through his own website, Open Reading Frame. Email: sennoma [at] fastmail.fm
	Tom Jacobs Tom Jacobs is pursuing happiness and a Ph.D in American Literature at NYU. His dissertation addresses the range of anxieties writers expressed in relation to the shifting commodity, material, and visual cultures of the mid-twentieth century. He teaches at the Expository Writing Program, where he can often be found malingering in the halls, wrapt in mysterious thought. Email: tomjacobs@nyu.edu
	Ruth Kikin-Gil Born and raised in Israel, Ruth studied visual communications at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and later lectured there. She also co-founded an interactive design consultancy, Max Interactive, and in 2003 moved to Italy with her husband, Erez, to pursue a Masters degree at Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, from which she is about to graduate in a few months. She is interested in the interplay between social behaviors and technology. Email: ruth@ruthkikin.com Website: www.ruthkikin.com
	Alan Koenig Alan Koenig resides in Queens, New York with his wife, Anna Slatinsky, where they often associate with the Flux Factory. He has a Master’s degree in political science from the New School for Social Research and is pursuing a Ph. D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His essays have appeared in Radical Society and The Believer and he served as a co-editor for Old Town Review. Email: akynikos [at] gmail.com
	Jonathan Kramnick Jonathan Kramnick is an English professor at Rutgers University. He lives in Manhattan. Email: kramnick[at]rci.rutgers.edu
	Alon Levy Alon Levy was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, went to college in Singapore, and is now studying mathematics at Columbia's graduate school. He lives in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, and considers it more a home to him than any of the countries he used to live in. When he doesn't try to solve problems in abstract algebra, he blogs about politics and occasionally mathematics at Abstract Nonsense. Email: alon_levy12 [at] hotmail.com
	Alex de Lucena Alex de Lucena is a New York based fiction writer. Email: adelucena [at] gmail.com
	Husain Naqvi Husain Naqvi is a lecturer in literature and creative writing at Boston University. Before his incarnation as an academic, he was an investment-banker who worked on Wall Street and I.I. Chundrigar Road. During his undergraduate career, he was the recipient of the Lannan Fellowship, the Phelam Prize and served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Journal. He has read his poems on National Public Radio, and at Lollapalooza and the Nuyorican Poets Café. Husain fancies himself a renaissance man who has his finger on the pulse of the great global dialectic. He smokes Dunhills. Email: greatglobaldialectic@hotmail.com
	Dhiraj Nayyar Dhiraj was born in New Delhi, India in 1978. He has lived, at various times, in New Delhi, Brighton, Calcutta, Washington, DC, Geneva, Oxford, and Cambridge. Convinced, at an early age, and beyond reasonable doubt, that he was unfit for the world of work, Dhiraj decided to pursue a career as a perpetual student in the field of Economics. He is still ‘working’ on his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge. While doing so, he divides his time inhaling the fresh air of Cambridge, exhaling the chaos of Delhi, and whiling away time in the serenity of the Himalayan foothills, in Dehradun. Email: dn234 [at] cam.ac.uk
	Peter Nicholson Australian poet and writer Peter Nicholson lives in Sydney. He is a graduate of Macquarie University and is interested in cinema and music, especially the music dramas of Wagner. He has published three volumes of poetry, A Temporary Grace, Such Sweet Thunder and A Dwelling Place. There is an introduction to his work at peternicholson.com.au [Peter's photo by David Moore]. Email: poetnic@yahoo.com
	Jennifer Ouellette A former English major turned science writer, Jennifer Ouellette is the author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics, and the forthcoming The Physics of the Buffyverse, both published by Penguin. Her work has also appeared in Discover, Salon, and New Scientist, among other venues, and she maintains a populist Weblog called Cocktail Party Physics, along with avatar/alter ego "Jen-Luc Piquant." She has covered such varied topics as the acoustics of Mayan pyramids and New York City subways; fractal patterns in the paintings of Jackson Pollock; and the precarious pitfalls of pseudoscience. She holds a black belt in Niseido jujitsu, and lives in Washington, DC. On the Web: www.jenniferouellette-writes.com Weblog: www.twistedphysics.typepad.com
	Jedediah Palmer Jed was born and bred in New York City. He's traveled a lot, lived for short periods of time in many different cities, and worked a variety of jobs (Circulation Manager, Bookseller, Foreign Rights Assistant, First Press Editor). Currently he lives in Brooklyn and seeks work as a copyeditor and proofreader. Email: jedediahpalmer [at] yahoo.com
	Abhay Parekh Abhay Parekh grew up in Bombay, India, and attended Cathedral School and St. Xavier's College there before moving to the U.S. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT. His papers in data networking have won international awards, and one was selected as among the 16 best papers in networking in the last 50 years. Abhay lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children, is a partner in a silicon valley venture capital firm, and is an adjunct professor at Berkeley. Website: www.tecknowbasic.com
	Laray Polk Laray Polk lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multi-media artist and writer. Interests include media, language, and politics. Email: laraypolk [at] earthlink [dot] net
	Jane Renaud Jane is an administrative assistant living in Brooklyn. She was born in Palo Alto in 1983. Her grandmother grew up in Nebraska next door to a little boy who sat depressed on the porch report card in hand and said, "Damn teacher knows I can't read." He called his big sister "Old Bev," and for her Jane's column is named. Email: janerenaud at gmail dot com
	Josh Smith Josh is currently an undergraduate at the University of Maryland in College Park, anchoring one major in English Literature, and leaving the other open for consideration. He has been a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has worked at two different art galleries, and has published a volume of poetry through his own arts collective. His heroes are Leonardo da Vinci and Elliott Smith. He can be found on the internets at thecolorofinfinity.com. Email: huhwhatduck@gmail.com
	Ahila Sornarajah Ahila is a lawyer, and resides in London. She lives downstairs from an escort agency, and upstairs from a Morrocan restaurant. After living in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, she is relieved to have found a crazy, messed up place to call home. She likes her work, but likes going to the cinema, and pretending to speak Spanish more. Because she loves it, she thinks it worth saying that her favourite book is “When Memory Dies” by A Sivanandan. Email: ahilasorn [at] hotmail.com
	Ker Than Ker Than is a graduate student at New York University's Science and Environmental Writing Program and a staff writer for LiveScience.com and Space.com. He has an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine and did neuroscience research in the field of learning and memory. He is interested in science in general, but also in its intersection with culture and the arts. Email: kerthan@gmail.com
	J. M. Tyree J. M. Tyree helped edit 3QD during its first year. His essays appear in various periodicals. Email: ocra coke post g mail com

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