Shaun Gallagher (author)

Shaun Gallagher is an American author of two nonfiction books: Experimenting with Babies and Correlated. He is a former magazine and newspaper editor[1] and runs the website Correlated.org, on which "Correlated" is based.

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid was published in October 2013 by Perigee Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book adapts experiments from child-development research so parents can perform them on their own baby. Gallagher was inspired to write the book by informal experimentation with his own infant sons, whom he has called his "two favourite science projects".[2]

Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things was to be published in July 2014, also by Perigee. The book uses data from Correlated.org to present bizarre correlations. Freakonomics predicted in 2011 that Correlated "will launch a thousand graduate theses",[3] and Pee-wee Herman encouraged his fans to "help further the cause of science" by contributing to Correlated.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Hamblin, James (December 6, 2013). "Experiments to do with your baby". The Atlantic.
  2. ↑ Gulli, Cathy (November 16, 2013). "Experimenting with babies". Maclean's.
  3. ↑ "Everything Is Correlated". Freakonomics. 5 April 2011.
  4. ↑ Herman, P. (July 10, 2011) "Help further the cause of science! http://www.correlated.org/ " Twitter.com

Bibliography

  • Gallagher, Shaun (2013). Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid. Perigee. ISBN 9780399162466.
  • Gallagher, Shaun (2014). Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things. Perigee. ISBN 9780399162473.
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