Caleb Garling is an American writer with ''

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'' among other publications.

Early life

He graduated with a degree in molecular, cellular and developmental

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

from The University of Colorado at Boulder. In college, he made money as a

fly fishing Fly fishing is an angling technique that uses an ultra-lightweight lure called an artificial fly, which typically mimics small invertebrates such as flying and aquatic insects to attract and catch fish. Because the mass of the fly lure is in ...

guide. He plays the

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

Career

He began as a

neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

researcher for

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

. He abandoned the pursuit of a medical degree and went on to work in strategy at startup software companies. Fed up with corporate life, he left to pursue writing and journalism. He has written about technology, science, music and sports for ''

''. He covered the case

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. If done through occultic means, it is a form of divination. Descript ...

and became known for his style of humor and clear explanations throughout the trial. His review of Radiohead's album

The King of Limbs ''The King of Limbs'' is the eighth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was self-released on 18 February 2011 as a download, followed by a physical release on 28 March through XL Recordings internationally and TBD Records in Nor ...

garnered both support and criticism when he argued the band had dealt a death blow to the concept of the album.Review: With King of Limbs, Radiohead Deals a Deathblow to the "Album"
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Author

He is an avid fly fisherman and the author of the book The St George's Angling Club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garling, Caleb 1981 births Living people American male writers Wired (magazine) people University of Colorado Boulder alumni