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Meera Lee Sethi

Meera was born in Singapore quite a long time ago. She spent 19 balmy years there before migrating to the wintry landscapes of first Boston and then Chicago, and blames her subsequently frozen brain for such amusing errors of judgment as attempting to become a middle school teacher, thinking she could learn to swing dance, and repeatedly cutting her own hair.

Meera is now a full time freelance writer and Inkling's managing online editor. She writes about science because it's one of the best ways she can think of to learn about the beautiful and the bizarre, and because if she followed the admonition to write what you know she would turn out nothing but articles about Hebrew poets and knee-high socks. Look for her at The Science Essayist and at Utata.org, where she is a contributing editor.


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Free…to Be Filled with Pollutants
by Meera Lee Sethi
June 16, 2010 at 2:02 PM | 1 Comments

The MMR Vaccine/Autism Saga, in Comic Strip Form
by Meera Lee Sethi
May 25, 2010 at 7:50 PM | 1 Comments

Hooking Up? Then You’re Probably Hooking Up.
by Meera Lee Sethi
May 10, 2010 at 7:26 PM | 2 Comments

Robot-Inflicted Injuries
by Meera Lee Sethi
May 10, 2010 at 7:02 PM | 2 Comments

Fake Science
by Meera Lee Sethi
May 10, 2010 at 6:45 PM | 1 Comments

Vagina Dentata to Debut in South Africa
by Meera Lee Sethi
April 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM | 1 Comments

Bring it, Baby!
by Meera Lee Sethi
April 20, 2010 at 10:50 AM | 0 Comments

Peinigend Words Really Do Cause Pain
by Meera Lee Sethi
April 06, 2010 at 7:20 PM | 0 Comments

Nature By Numbers
by Meera Lee Sethi
April 06, 2010 at 7:04 PM | 1 Comments

The Music of the Spheres
by Meera Lee Sethi
April 04, 2010 at 8:38 PM | 1 Comments

Messing with Morality
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 30, 2010 at 8:36 AM | 1 Comments

Ha Ha Ha = “I’m Old and Important”?
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM | 0 Comments

Turn on a Light, Turn off a Neuron
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 15, 2010 at 9:29 AM | 0 Comments

Does the News Help Make People More Informed? Maybe Not.
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 10, 2010 at 3:06 PM | 1 Comments

A Gender Gap in Sexual Life Expectancy?
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 10, 2010 at 2:58 PM | 0 Comments

Can Cat Naps Cause Diabetes?
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 01, 2010 at 12:26 PM | 0 Comments

Bonobos Reared by Humans Point the Way to Understanding Culture
by Meera Lee Sethi
March 01, 2010 at 12:14 PM | 0 Comments

Baby Decoder Ring Finally Developed
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 24, 2010 at 1:16 PM | 0 Comments

Women and True Crime: A Love Story
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM | 0 Comments

Intelligent People value the “Evolutionarily Novel”
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 24, 2010 at 12:29 PM | 0 Comments

Looking for Love? Consider an Older Woman
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM | 0 Comments

Are You Smarter Than a Crow?
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 10, 2010 at 2:29 PM | 0 Comments

Robot Princess and the Seven Dwarfs
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 10, 2010 at 1:04 PM | 0 Comments

People Are Nuts (And We Love ‘Em)
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM | 0 Comments

Pokemon for Zoologists
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 08, 2010 at 2:17 PM | 0 Comments

Best Ever Use of Twitter
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 08, 2010 at 12:06 PM | 0 Comments

Cat Owners vs. Dog Owners: A New Battlefront?
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 07, 2010 at 1:58 PM | 2 Comments

No Sense of Direction? Blame Your Ancestors
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 07, 2010 at 1:49 PM | 0 Comments

An Eye for an Eye
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 07, 2010 at 1:42 PM | 0 Comments

Left-Handed People Like Left Better than Right
by Meera Lee Sethi
February 03, 2010 at 12:14 PM | 0 Comments

NYT Cautions Husbands Against Excessive Happiness
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 31, 2010 at 9:24 AM | 2 Comments

Geek Observes Geeks, Files Report
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 29, 2010 at 10:45 AM | 0 Comments

A Wolf in…Wolf’s Clothing?
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM | 0 Comments

One-Way Breathing: Alligators Did it First
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM | 0 Comments

Sketching the Christmas Bird Count
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 06, 2010 at 11:48 AM | 0 Comments

No Accounting for Tastes
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 04, 2010 at 10:53 AM | 0 Comments

(Cork)Screwy Duck Sex
by Meera Lee Sethi
January 02, 2010 at 10:08 AM | 1 Comments

Christmas Card Reciprocity Between Strangers
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM | 0 Comments

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM | 0 Comments

The Bug Room at the Field Museum = Awesomeness
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 22, 2009 at 9:24 AM | 2 Comments

Real Bugs are Bad Enough; Are Imaginary Ones Worse?
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 18, 2009 at 8:11 AM | 0 Comments

5 Minutes of Weightlessness: $200,000; Sharing Spaceflight Rituals with Cosmonauts: Priceless
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 07, 2009 at 1:54 PM | 0 Comments

Royal Society Is Very Old, Refuses to Go Away
by Meera Lee Sethi
December 01, 2009 at 4:56 PM | 0 Comments

Paper Explains How Being Covered in Paint Makes it Harder for Doctors to Examine Your Wounds.
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM | 0 Comments

Sugar per Person per Day, Over Time
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 28, 2009 at 7:58 PM | 0 Comments

So You Think You’re Easily Disgusted?
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM | 4 Comments

The Mathematics of Seduction
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 23, 2009 at 3:06 PM | 3 Comments

Men on Twitter Inexplicably More Interesting than Men on Facebook, MySpace
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 19, 2009 at 8:07 PM | 0 Comments

Wow.
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM | 0 Comments

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 16, 2009 at 6:02 PM | 0 Comments

Little Known Use for Ultrasound, #473: Detecting Foreign Bodies in Cheese
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 12, 2009 at 5:50 PM | 0 Comments

The Ladybird Invasion
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 07, 2009 at 9:15 PM | 3 Comments

Pattern-Recognition + Social Networking = Drug Research in the Trenches
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 06, 2009 at 7:21 PM | 0 Comments

Advice from Disney: “Don’t Stop Showering When You Have Your Period, Stinky.”
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 05, 2009 at 5:29 PM | 0 Comments

Why You May Be Less Likely to Die of a Heart Attack Tomorrow
by Meera Lee Sethi
November 01, 2009 at 7:42 PM | 0 Comments

When Two Galaxies Really, Really Love Each Other…
by Meera Lee Sethi
October 28, 2009 at 7:45 PM | 0 Comments

We’re Back!
by Meera Lee Sethi
October 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM | 2 Comments