Brooke Borel

Freelance

Brooke Borel is a science writer and author. She is a contributing editor for Popular Science and her first book is Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World (2015).

Written by Brooke Borel

Coloured microscopic photo of a bed bug with detailed texture of its body and antennae, resting on a woven surface.

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Cities

Bugged

Bed bugs crawl under our covers, suck our blood and disappear, leaving us on a razor’s edge between reality and delusion

Brooke Borel

Medical students in white lab coats examining a cadaver in a lab, with a skeleton model in the foreground and an X-ray in the background.

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Death

I’d rather be dissected

There are not enough whole-body donations to science. Why don’t people want their death to help the living?

Brooke Borel