I'm Zack Savitsky
At age 6, I had my first existential crisis. Just like my garden herbs and hermit crabs, one day, I realized, I would die, and then nothing would matter. Rocked by my premature nihilism, I began to question everything about existence in the cosmos. I grew fulfilled by the search for answers — piecing together the puzzle by studying physics and journalism. I learned that probing deeper brought meaning to the meaningless. But my desire was never to make the discoveries myself; it was to make them accessible. Now, as a science journalist, I spend my days at the precipice of human knowledge and tell stories about the people pushing its boundaries. Doing so helps to calm my existential terror — and hopefully yours, too.