Mara Grunbaum Author

Mara Grunbaum, founder of the viral Tumblr WTF, Evolution? (1.4 million views), is currently an associate editor at Science World, Scholastic’s science magazine for middle- and high-school students, where she writes about everything from the biology of whiskers to mining palladium on the moon. Her work has also appeared in PopularScience, Discover Magazine, OnEarth, and ScientificAmerican.com, among others. Mara is a graduate of NYU’s master’s program in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting. In 2012, she co-wrote and acted in a video parody called “Sh*t Scientists Say,” which spread rapidly through the scientific community and has been viewed on YouTube nearly 140,000 times to date. She is currently pursuing web video projects with both NOVA and the BBC’s “Earth Unplugged” series. Mara lives in Brooklyn, New York.