Ed Yong

Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist who reports for The Atlantic . His work has also featured in National Geographic , the New Yorker , Wired , Nature , New Scientist , Scientific American , and many other publications. His first book, I Contain Multitudes , was a New York Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize. Ed's TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people. You can find him on Twitter at @edyong209 Ed...See more

Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist who reports for The Atlantic . His work has also featured in National Geographic , the New Yorker , Wired , Nature , New Scientist , Scientific American , and many other publications. His first book, I Contain Multitudes , was a New York Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize. Ed's TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people. You can find him on Twitter at @edyong209 Ed Yong 's first book, I Contain Multitudes , about the amazing partnerships between microbes and animals, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize. It was a New York Times bestseller. He is a science writer on the staff of The Atlantic , where he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Polk Award for science reporting, among other honours. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Wired , The New York Times , Scientific American , and more. He lives in Washington, D.C. See less