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Christina Couch writes about brains, behaviors, and bizarre animals for kids and adults. She’s the author of Innovative Octopuses, Half-Brained Birds, and More Animals with Magnificent Minds—a neuroscience book for middle school readers about animals and their truly marvelous brains. Her bylines can be found in The New York Times, NOVA, Smithsonian, Vogue.com, Wired Magazine, and Science Friday. She is an alumna of the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing, where she now teaches the world’s most delightful journalism students.
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