Hacking how we Sense the World

Kara Platoni teaches reporting and narrative writing at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Journalism Award and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists. Kara’s new book is We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians and Scientists are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time. She was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and Elliott Bay Book Company, as part of the Civics series.