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Biography

Deborah Halber started out as a daily newspaper reporter, then worked as a writer and editor for Tufts and as a science writer for MIT, where she chronicled everything from quantum weirdness (that’s the technical term) to snail slime. A freelance journalist since 2004, her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, MIT Technology Review, the graphic news magazine Symbolia, Inked, and many university publications. Her narrative nonfiction book, THE SKELETON CREW: HOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ARE SOLVING AMERICA’S COLDEST CASES, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the National Association of Science Writers, and PEN America, she lives near Boston in a house with a lot of former pets buried out back.

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Total articles 44

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  Going Dutch on climate

  By Deborah Halber

  Aug. 08, 2024

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  Power grid, resilience, renewales

  By Deborah Halber

  May. 16, 2024

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  Elaine Liu: Charging ahead

  By Deborah Halber

  May. 16, 2024

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