Erik Vance will do anything in the name of science. As part of the research for his latest book exploring how the mind and body shape our realities, Suggestible You, he was burned, electrocuted, hypnotized, and cursed by a witchdoctor. In the past, Vance has been a biologist, a rock climbing guide, an environmental consultant, and an environmental educator, but now he focuses on the human element of science, writing about the people who do it as well as how it affects others in positive and negative ways. Over the course of his career, Vance has written for the New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, and a variety of local and national publications.