Henry Fountain, science reporter, is answering questions from readers July 27-31, 2009. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com.
Henry Fountain
Mr. Fountain covers engineering, materials and other subjects at the intersection of science and everyday life. He also writes Observatory, a weekly column about research findings in biology and other fields.
In 1995, Mr. Fountain joined The Times as an editor on the national desk. Previously he worked at The International Herald Tribune, New York Newsday and The Bridgeport Post and another Connecticut newspaper, The Fairfield Citizen-News (where he covered the town sewer commission — his first foray into infrastructure).
In addition to working on the national desk, at The Times he has been an editor for the weekly technology section Circuits, the Week in Review and the special sections department, which covers environmental business, philanthropy and other subjects.
He became a full-time reporter this spring, after writing Observatory and other articles on a part-time basis for the past decade. Among other subjects, he has written about concrete, an elephant that thinks it’s a truck, jealous dogs, nuclear tourism, a building based on bubbles, poison ivy and climate change, arthritic cane toads and worm grunting.
Other Times staff members have answered questions in this column, including Executive Editor Bill Keller, Managing Editor Jill Abramson, Managing Editor John Geddes, Deputy Managing Editor Jonthan Landman, Assistant Managing Editor Glenn Kramon, National Editor Suzanne Daley, Living Editor Trish Hall, Entertainment Editor Lorne Manly, Crossword Editor Will Shortz and N.B.A. reporter Jonathan Abrams. Their responses and those of other Times editors, reporters, columnists and executives are on the Talk to The Times page.
These discussions will continue in future weeks with other members of the Times staff.Source
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