
Kat McGowan
Freelance; contributing editor, Discover magazine
Kat McGowan writes about health, medicine and science for magazines including Nautilus and Quanta, and is a contributing editor at Discover. She lives in New York City and California.
Written by Kat McGowan

essayStories and literature
Silicon phoenix
A gifted child, an adventure, a dark time, and then … a pivot? How Silicon Valley rewrote America’s redemption narrative
Kat McGowan

essayEthics
Would telepathy help?
Will the next generation of telepathy machines make us closer, or are there unforeseen dangers in the melding of minds?
Kat McGowan

essayChildhood and adolescence
Brilliant impersonators
We prize originality, yet humans are natural-born copycats and only good imitators survive. Is it time to celebrate the rip-off?
Kat McGowan