Paul Brown is a retired West Virginia University professor of physiology and neuroscientist, with degrees from MIT and the University of Chicago. He has devoted his time since retirement to writing about human rights, climate change, mass extinction, overpopulation, and the corporate takeover of society. He is the author of the nonfiction Notes from a Dying Planet and Notes from a Dead Planet, and a novel, The Birth of Adam, based on his nonfiction. He is now writing an international cookbook. Brown also curates a free news feed, Dead Planet News, to which readers can subscribe at pbrown4348@gmail.com. He can also be contacted at that email address.