Thumbs, Toes, and Tears

by Chip Walter

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  About the Author

  Chip Walter is a science journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former CNN bureau chief. He is coauthor (with William Shatner) of I’m Working on That and author of Space Age. Walter teaches science writing at Carnegie Mellon University, is senior manager of strategic communications at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his two daughters, Molly and Hannah.

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