Jed Brody is a Senior Lecturer in Physics. His short fiction has appeared in Creative Loafing and an anthology of Science Fiction by Scientists. His essays have appeared in Physics Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: Volume One: Africa. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, West Africa, where he taught high school physics and chemistry. He studied solar electricity at Georgia Tech. As a member of a US-Tibet Science Initiative, he traveled to India five times to teach physics to Tibetan monks and nuns. He enjoys yoga, qigong, birdwatching, swimming, and reading, but usually not all at the same time.