Hannah Holmes

Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality

by Hannah Holmes

Who are you? It’s the most fundamental of human questions. Are you the type of person who tilts at windmills, or the one who prefers to view them from the comfort of an air-conditioned motorcoach? Our personalities...

The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself

by Hannah Holmes

DID YOU KNOW THAT 

• we have more hair follicles than a chimpanzee

• a male boxer in top condition can punch with the force of a thirteen-pound mallet swung at twenty miles an hour

• the best human endurance...

Suburban Safari

by Hannah Holmes

The suburban lawn sprouts a crop of contradictory myths. To some, it's a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Science writer Hannah Holmes spent a year appraising the lawn through the eyes of the squirrels,...