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The Color of Desire
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Fri
A longtime editor and correspondent for WIRED, Adam Rogers grew up in Los Angeles. He started his career in journalism as a fact checker at Newsweek, where he reported on everything from life (or rather its absence) on Mars to the business of Star Wars. He also covered the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and Al Gore.
After Newsweek, Adam was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied urban ecology and the science of color.
At WIRED, Adam has edited hundreds of features, short articles, and writing about science and culture. His article “The Angels’ Share” won an AAAS/Kavli award, and his piece “The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress” remains one of the most-read pieces of journalism on the internet. In 2018 he won the Research Society on Alcoholism Media award. Adam graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and has a Masters's degree in science journalism from Boston University. He lives in the California Bay Area.