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One of my favorite gigs is when Real Simple asks me to round up experts, thinkers, influencers, and writers to share their take on some issue — from global warming to best ways to get outside and play — that's on all our minds that month. I pride myself on finding a broad array of fascinating, often counterintuitive, thought leaders to talk to, then curating their best nuggets to form a well-rounded roundtable of opinion. But by far the best part is the amazing conversations (with everyone from MIT professor Alan Lightman to climate guru Katharine K. Wilkinson) I get to have along the way.