Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Lauren Tarshis

Born: November 23, 1963 (age 61)
Bio: Lauren Tarshis is an author of children's books, with several series of fiction and historical works found in thousands of libraries and translated into several languages. She is also the editor of Storyworks magazine.
Known for:
- I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (2010)
- I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (2011)
- The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (2013)
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (2013)
- Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree (2007)