Jeanne Cavelos
1 archived appearance · 1999
AstrophysicsScience FictionEcologyBiological Warfare
Jeanne Cavelos is a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher trained in astrophysics and mathematics. She taught astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, worked in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and later became a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell. In 1996 she founded the Odyssey Writing Workshop for speculative-fiction writers. Cavelos joined Art Bell in 1998 to connect developments in ecology and biology with emerging disease and biological-warfare risks, drawing on the scientific approach also used in her nonfiction books.
On the air with Art · 1
Feb 23, 1999 · 2h 30m
Ecology & Biological Warfare
Jeanne Cavelos examines ecological stress, emerging disease, and the possibility that biological warfare could exploit vulnerabilities in natural and human systems.Art Bell asks how population, environmental damage, genetic engineering, and modern travel change the scale of biological risk. The discussion separates...
Books by Jeanne Cavelos · 6
The Shadow Within
1997
The Science of the X-Files
1998
The Science of Star Wars
2000
Casting Shadows
2001
Summoning Light
2001
Invoking Darkness
2001