Bio: Cook serves as the editor for the Ideas section, which appears weekly in the Boston Sunday Globe. Ideas features colorful reporting and probing commentary on the ideas, people, books and trends that are shaking up the intellectual world. Prior to his current role, Cook served as an award-winning science reporter covering primarily the physical sciences for the Boston Globe's health & science section.  He joined the paper as New England editor in 1999 and started as a science writer a year later. In 2005, Cook won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism for his coverage of stem cell research.