Noted Journalist and Science Writer John Horgan Speaks April 16 at NJIT

NEWARK, Apr 15 2003

Noted journalist and science writer John Horgan will discuss his three recent books on April 16, at 1 p.m. at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 1 of Cullimore Hall, located at the intersection of Summit and Bleeker streets, Newark.

Horgan, a freelance writer, was a senior writer at Scientific American from 1986 to 1997. He has also written for The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Slate, London Times, Times Literary Supplement among other publications.

He is the author of The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (Broadway Books, 1997); The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication and Explanation (Simon & Schuster, 2000); Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality (Houghton Mifflin Co, 2003).

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