Sheril Kirshenbaum is a research scientist with the Webber Energy at the University of Texas at Austin. Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney. Her second book, The Science of Kissing was published January 2011. She also blogs for The Intersection, with Chris Mooney, on discovermagazine.com.