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Jennifer Ouellette is a freelance writer and an author of popular science books, including “Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self.” Her work has also appeared in Discover, New Scientist, Smithsonian, Nature, Physics Today, Physics World, Slate and Salon, and she maintains a blog, Cocktail Party Physics, at Scientific American.