Jennifer Ouellette Bio

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Jennifer Ouellette is the director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange. She is the author of two popular science books for the general public: The Physics of the Buffyverse (2007) and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics (2006). A card-carrying member of the Authors Guild and National Association of Science Writers, her work has appeared in Discover, Salon, Nature, Physics Today, Symmetry, Physics World, and New Scientist. She maintains a general science-and-culture group blog called Cocktail Party Physics, and writes the Twisted Physics blog for Discovery News. Ouellette has also worked extensively in education and outreach efforts with nonprofit science organizations, including the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. She holds a black belt in jujitsu, and has been known to draw upon that expertise from time to time to demonstrate the fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics to the general public.