Tom Zeller Jr.

Tom Zeller Jr.

Writer and Editor

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Tom Zeller Jr. is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Undark, a nonprofit digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society. Previously, he was a reporter and columnist at The New York Times, an editor-at-large for National Geographic magazine, and a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He lives in Lolo, Montana. The Headache is his first book.

A man slumps in a chair, eyes closed, as small monkey-like creatures torment him with various objects in a room near a fireplace and table.
In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.