Jonathan Pitts-Wiley is a son of Rhode Island and a Capricorn from the days when that sort of thing used to mean something. When he isn't busy writing, he enjoys wondering what happened to the halcyon days of college, working in theatre, and imagining what kind of dad he is going to be.

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Born in Milwaukee, raised in Maryland, and a brief stint in Memphis. More recently, Emily spent three years abroad as a reporter for The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. While she misses riding a motorbike to interviews and living in a treehouse, she does enjoy the fact that cannons are fired with regularity outside her office on Boston Harbor, and that people in New England can generally handle their snow. Her weakness? Sour cherries.

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Molly is a former journalist who has worked in the employee benefits field, writing articles designed to help employees balance work and life. Now that she is a full-time working parent of a four-year-old and three-year-old twins, she recognizes a ridiculous concept when she sees one. When everybody in her house can feed themselves, she would like to pursue her interest in mission-based organizations.

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Alex is a 24-year-old Army lieutenant leading a platoon somewhere in Afghanistan. He is originally from Vermont, roots for the Red Sox, listens to the Dropkick Murphys, and majored in Poli Sci. For security reasons, he has asked us not to post his photograph or last name.

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Rachel is a third year medical student and vagabond. She speaks really bad Mandarin and can understand Cantonese and a little bit of Burmese. Her favorite places include the pyramids of Egypt and Te Anu in New Zealand. Currently she is confined to the four walls of a hospital and unsure of what she will be when she gets out—maybe a surgeon, maybe a pediatrician, maybe an ER doc. Proudest goal to date: bungee jumping from Nevis, the second highest bungee jump in the world. Goal for the future: a stint with Doctors Without Borders. All names in her blog have been changed to protect patient confidentiality.

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Aaron Santos is a physicist, author, and blogger. He currently works as a postdoc at the University of Michigan. He is the author of How Many
Licks, or How to Estimate Damn Near Anything, a humorous collection of approximations: how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, how many people are having sex at this instant, how long it would take to dig your way out of jail with a spoon, etc.

Similar estimations can be found on his blog at diaryofnumbers.blogspot.com. He lives in Ann Arbor with his lovely and highly talented wife Anna Lackaff.