Benedict Carey (born 3 March 1960) is an American journalist and reporter on medical and science topics for ''

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''.

Biography

Carey was born on 3 March 1960 in San Francisco, and graduated from the

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with a degree in mathematics in 1983. In 1985 he enrolled in a one-year journalism program at

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in Evanston,

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and in 1987 joined the staff of

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-based medical science magazine ''Hippocrates''. From 1997 he worked as a freelance journalist in

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, before securing a position as the health and fitness writer for the ''

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''. A 2002 article on the health effects of drinking eight glasses of water a day won a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award. Since 2004 Carey has worked as a science and medical writer for ''

''. He is the author of two science/math adventures for middle-schoolers, one called "Island of the Unknowns;" previously titled "The Unknowns", and "Poison Most Vial". He has also written a book about learning science titled "How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens."

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Recent and archived news articles by Benedict Carey of ''The New York Times''.
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Biography

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