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Joe Pappalardo
Joined: Oct 2, 2014
Joe Pappalardo is a science journalist and author of the non-fiction book Sunflowers: The Secret History. Some recent work appears in Popular Mechanics, Maxim, The Guardian, and Playboy.com. He's visited a BSL-4 facility in Maryland and interviewed scientists from the Russian bioweapons research facility Vector.