Christie Nicholson is a science journalist based in New York by way of Toronto and Halifax. Her academic and professional careers have blended biology, psychology, and pop culture for the last 15 years.

Nicholson studied philosophy at Dalhousie University and biological science at the University of Toronto. Her subsequent four years working with bipolar and schizophrenic patients at Canada's Clarke Institute of Psychiatry inspired her to decamp for Borneo to study orangutans and explore the effects of "civilization" on early humans.

Nicholson then made the move to New York in 1998, at the height of its "Silicon Alley" days. She worked as a new media producer for over six years, publishing award-winning sites for corporate and non-profit companies.

In May 2007, Nicholson will receive her Master's from Columbia University's School of Journalism. She is an intern at Scientific American and writes regularly for the Association of Psychological Science's Observer Magazine, Theme Magazine, and the technology blog Popgadget.net. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Austin-American Statesman, The Arizona Republic, The Montreal Gazette and other papers in the U.S. and Canada.

While not working hard to translate the complexities of science onto the written page and into Web video, you'll probably find her in Brooklyn, interrogating a friendly stranger, baking a cake, getting serious about Scrabble, or planning her next world trip.