Charles Wohlforth

Charles P. Wohlforth (born 1963) is an author and journalist, former public official, policy activist and consultant.[1] Most of his work has been related to Alaska.[2]

Wohlforth's books include The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Science and Technology category, in 2004,[3] and more than 10 other books about science, environment, history, biography, and travel. His column in the Anchorage Daily News won the "Best of the West" award in 2019.[4] Wohlforth served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly[5] and led the Coalition for Education Equity as executive director for five years.[6] He was a consultant on energy and transportation issues on the state and national level.[6] He was host of several radio, podcast and TV programs on Alaska Public Media.[7] He graduated from Princeton University with high honors in 1986.[6]

Partial bibliography
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gollark: I don't know. Sure, if you want?
gollark: Learning about electronics might be interesting.
gollark: Hmm. Well. It seems like you've gone through basically everything I might suggest and also a large amount of things I haven't, so no idea then.
gollark: More "potentially interesting things to do" than "challenge" but:- play some fun computer games- learn programming- read books (there are lots of authors providing books for free because of the whole situation, I find lots through reddit, and amazon's kindle unlimited is fairly cheap and has lots)- do... exercise of some sort... if you like that, I guess- learn about some other subject which interests you, there are loads of resources for stuff on the internet these days- drawing/other art stuff might be interesting for you if you're good at that- write things? There's r/writingprompts on reddit for that sort of thing- learning lockpicking is apparently quite cheap, might be fun, and is somewhat useful (and legal as long as you only do it on stuff you own, probably)

References
  1. "About Author". Charles Wohlforth. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  2. "Books by Charles Wohlforth". Charles Wohlforth. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  3. 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
  4. "2019 results of the Best of the West journalism contest |". Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  5. "List of past members of the Anchorage Assembly" (PDF).
  6. "Charles Wohlforth CV" (PDF).
  7. "Charles Wohlforth". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved October 24, 2019.


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