Liz Else

Liz Else covers science books and arts for New Scientist, from commissioning to editing and reviewing. She started out as a reporter in local newspapers, before moving to the BBC’s Listener magazine and Radio 4 and then to Computing magazine, a leading title in the computing trade press. After freelancing as a sub-editor, she joined New Scientist and became the chief sub-editor, before being seconded to the Opinion (now Views) section. She studied science and technology mainly through the Open University, with postgraduate studies futures and forecasting later at Leeds Metropolitan University. Big ideas across the intersection of science, tech and culture are her passion, alongside the political and economic forces that drive them. She is currently working on various projects, including an online directory of women artists who use ideas from science and technology, and a book treatment of what she sees as the worst cognitive bias of the 180 or so identified thus far. No spoilers…