Michael Shermer is Director of the Skeptics Society and Assistant
Professor of History of Science at the Institute for Human Progress. He
taught psychology and the history of science for 11 years at Glendale
College, and occasionally teaches the history of science and culture at
Occidental College. He has published Teach Your Child Science and
co-authored Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics with Dr.
Arthur Benjamin. Dr. Shermer has just finished two books,
Heretic-Scientist, a biography of Alfred Russell Wallace, and
The Chaos of History, on the application of chaos theory to human
history. He has also written numerous cycling books based on a ten year
professional career as a ultra-marathon cyclist and competitor in the
transcontinental Race Across America.