Bas Kast
German-Dutch science writer
Bas Kast is a German-Dutch science writer and journalist. He wrote The Diet Compass, which won a Science Book of the Year award.
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German Born 1973 in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
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About Bas Kast
Bas Kast was born in 1973 in Landau. His studies in psychology and biology involved the University of Konstanz and MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began as a freelancer for the weekly Die Zeit and other magazines, then became an editor and reporter at Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin. He has written several popular science books, and some of them became bestsellers translated into many languages. Bild der Wissenschaft honored The Diet Compass as its Science Book of the Year.