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Garth Sundem

About

I work at the intersection of science and humor, with a background including a growing list of bestselling books, a Magna Cum Laude pre-med/music degree from Cornell University, and math-for-hire for mobile app and tech companies. In addition to bookstores and conferences, you may have seen me on the Science Channel where I'm a frequent onscreen contributor or in periodicals including The New York Times, Esquire, Wired, and Congressional Quarterly.

I grew up on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle, where my dad—a former President of the American Accounting Association—taught for 34 years in the UW business school. Now, I live in Boulder, Colorado with my wife, two small kids, one large and one small labrador.

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Recent Posts
Should You Trust Your Insight?

Without really knowing where an insight solution comes from, can you trust it?

Without really knowing where an insight solution comes from, can you trust it?

How to Stop Passing Unfairness to Your Partner

When someone treats you unfairly, should you speak up or move on to avoid acting unfairly yourself?

When someone treats you unfairly, should you speak up or move on to avoid acting unfairly yourself?

What Kind of Person is Besties With a Narcissist?

It may not be that narcissists seek versions of themselves, but that they can't help but be stuck with themselves.

It may not be that narcissists seek versions of themselves, but that they can't help but be stuck with themselves.

Why Is Your Child Good (Or Bad...) at Both Math and Reading?

Why do reading and math go together? Is it general intelligence boosting both? Study skills? Tiger parenting? A new study pinpoints this skill...and it's not general intelligence.

Why do reading and math go together? Is it general intelligence boosting both? Study skills? Tiger parenting? A new study pinpoints this skill...and it's not general intelligence.

Study Fact-Checks Influence of Immigration on Jobs

Research shows that the diversity from immigration leads to wage growth and higher productivity in STEM fields.

Research shows that the diversity from immigration leads to wage growth and higher productivity in STEM fields.

Does Creativity Come From Persistence or Flexibility?

If you think broadly, you will find creative ideas among irrelevant ones. If you think deeply, you will eventually dig through mundane ideas and into original ones below.

If you think broadly, you will find creative ideas among irrelevant ones. If you think deeply, you will eventually dig through mundane ideas and into original ones below.

Should We Protect Our Kids From the Stress of Youth Sports?

Kids sobbed as they exited the climbing competition through what my wife aptly named the “Tunnel of Tears”. And into this mix, we send our kind, humble 9-year-old?

Kids sobbed as they exited the climbing competition through what my wife aptly named the “Tunnel of Tears”. And into this mix, we send our kind, humble 9-year-old?

Research Finds Faults in Santa Claus Workplace Safety

Society systematically fails to consider issues of workplace safety that affect Santa Claus and his ungulate co-workers every Christmas Eve. A new paper rights this wrong.

Society systematically fails to consider issues of workplace safety that affect Santa Claus and his ungulate co-workers every Christmas Eve. A new paper rights this wrong.

Does Religion Protect Against Holiday Blues?

Study finds that "the Christmas period is related to a decrease in life satisfaction and emotional well-being." But not among very religious Christians...

Study finds that "the Christmas period is related to a decrease in life satisfaction and emotional well-being." But not among very religious Christians...

Online Games Show Player Personality And How To Change It

You bring some of your personality into online games...and soon the game may put a bit of itself into your personality.

You bring some of your personality into online games...and soon the game may put a bit of itself into your personality.