Michael Shermer is Publisher of Skeptic, Director of the Skeptics Society, and an adjunct professor 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). He has a book coming out in the summer of 1996 on Denying History: How We Know the Holocaust Happened. His next book is Hope Springs Eternal: Why People Believe Weird Things, to be published by W.H. Freeman in early 1997. Dr. Shermer's dissertation was on the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russell Wallace, for which he has written a biography. 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.