Mark Buchanan

Science Writer, Freelance

Mark Buchanan is a physicist and science writer. Formerly an editor at Nature and New Scientist, his work has been published in Science, The New York Times and Wired, among others. He was formerly a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and currently writes a monthly column for Nature Physics. His latest book is Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics (2013). He lives in Dorset, England.

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Earth science and climate

Deep warming

Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future

Mark Buchanan

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Economics

How ergodicity reimagines economics for the benefit of us all

Mark Buchanan