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About Renee Hale
I have a PhD in chemical engineering and 8 years of working in food engineering. I am a voracious reader across a wide range of topics, especially engineering, science, food, and any overlap of the three. In hosting, I enjoy introducing readers to a new (to them) topic in a bite-sized form as a way to share my own joy of discovering new information that makes me say, "huh, I never knew that!" When I'm not reading, I enjoy playing board games, visiting museums and historical sites, and experiencing great food and drinks.
NBN Episodes hosted by Renee:
April 16, 2025
Writing for the Reader's Brain
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on c…
April 8, 2025
Flight Paths
In Flight Paths (HarperCollins, 2023), Rebecca Heisman illuminates the stories and methods of the scientists who unlocked the secrets of bird migratio…
March 17, 2025
Well Worth Saving
In Well Worth Saving (Yale University Press, 2019), Professor Laurel Leff explores how American universities responded to the sudden and urgent appeal…
March 11, 2025
Night Magic
“Almost every storyline we’re familiar with suggests that we should banish [darkness] as quickly as possible—because darkness is often presented as a …