Rowan Hooper
Hi - welcome to my author page.
I'm a senior editor at New Scientist magazine and host of the New Scientist Weekly podcast. After gaining a PhD in evolutionary biology, I moved to Japan and worked in a conservation biology lab, then a national newspaper in Tokyo, then Trinity College Dublin in a nanophysics lab. I'm the author of Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability. My work has been published in the Guardian, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired and The Economist. I live in London with my partner and two daughters.
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Books Rowan Hooper has authored
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Superhuman
by Rowan Hooper • September 17, 2019 • Science & Math
In 1997, an endurance runner named Yiannis Kouros ran 188 miles in twenty-four hours. Akira Haraguchi can recite pi to the 100,...
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