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I am super-happy to announce the newest addition to our blog network!

Brainwaves is the new blog by Ferris Jabr (old blog, Twitter), the associate editor for neuroscience and psychology here at Scientific American.

Ferris got his MA from New York University in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting and a Bachelors of Science from Tufts University in psychology and English literature. At his new blog he will experiment with all sorts of things - starting first with a series of posts about different types of neurons.


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