Gary Stix
Gary Stix is a journalist and author. He is a Senior Editor at the Scientific American.
Education
Stix obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism from New York University.Personal
He is married to Miriam Lacob.Career
Stix is a senior editor for Scientific American and has worked there for over 20 years. He is currently responsible for covering neuroscience. He has frequently been the issue or section editor for special issues of the magazine. He also reports and commissions articles on a variety of other topics ranging from nanotechnology to obesity. Prior to working for Scientific American, Stix spent 3 years as a science journalist at IEEE Spectrum. He and his wife wrote a general primer on technology called "Who Gives a Gigabyte?"Articles
- — "Wiki-Curious: Are you a 'busybody,' a 'hunter" or a 'dancer'?", Scientific American, vol. 332, no. 2, p. 18. "'Curiosity actually works by connecting pieces of information, not just acquiring them.'"
- – "Thinking without Words: Cognition doesn't require language, it turns out", Scientific American, vol. 332, no. 3, pp. 86–88. "n the tradition of linguist Noam Chomsky... we use language for thinking: to think is why language evolved in our species. looking at deficits in different abilities – for instance, in people with brain damage... who have impairments in language – some form of aphasia ." Conversely, "large language models such as GPT-2... do language very well hey're not so good at thinking, which... nicely align with the idea that the language system by itself is not what makes you think."