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Scott Huler

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January 01, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

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Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and Child.

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Still Here, But Look for Me Somewhere Else

Greetings, readers. For some months now I've been doing my blogging at Plugged-In, on the Scientific American Bloggers Network, and at the site of the Piedmont Laureate, which I'm proud to be for 2011. So please check those sites for my most recent thoughts, though this site still provides thorough information about me, my books, and my other work. read more »

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Books by Scott Huler

Average rating: 3.63 · 275 ratings · 97 reviews · 9 distinct works

	On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work 3.55 avg rating — 110 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	No Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey 3.52 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry 3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	On Being Brown 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Little Bit Sideways: One Week Inside a Nascar Winston Cup Race Team 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	On Being Brown 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback by Gordon Bethune, Scott Huler 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Boston and New England, 1989-90 by World of Travel Publishing, Scott Huler 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“So wait a minute. I go looking for the story of the guy who wrote this awesome wind scale tha tblew my mind. I start reading about his life, and before he's sixteen years old I've already run across a family's flight from the poorhouse, an early balloon flight, an eccentric father, a young man at sea, Malay pirates, shipwreck, castaways, buried treasure, and Captain Bligh, fresh off the mutiny on the Bounty. Not a single word about the wind, but honestly, at this point, who cares?”
― Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

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“All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can use language to make the highly complex categorizations of, say, animals or physical forces, or however many different kinds of quarks there are now, putting them in separate piles and naming the piles. It's how we proceed; it's how we communicate. Organization into categories is, at bottom, human.”
― Scott Huler, Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

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