Michael Shermer is Publisher of Skeptic, Director of the Skeptics Society, and Assistant Professor of History of Science in the Cultural Studies Department at Occidental College. He has published Teach Your Child Science and co-authored Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics (with Dr. Arthur Benjamin). His latest book is Hope Springs Eternal: Reflections on Science and Pseudoscience, History and Pseudohistory, due out in 1996. Dr. Shermer has just finished writing Heretic-Scientist, a biography of Alfred Russell Wallace, and is currently working on The Chaos of History, on the application of chaos theory and complex adaptive systems to human history. He has also written numerous cycling books based on a 10-year professional career as a ultra-marathon cyclist and competitor in the transcontinental Race Across America.