Here are links to some of my magazine pieces.
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- Helping Farmers and Forests
Bostonia
Can a scientist save Brazil’s rainforest, while helping ranchers thrive?
Continue reading → - On the Road Without GPS
Boston Globe Magazine
Two weeks in California, two kids, no GPS. We lived to tell the tale.
Continue reading → - Why Do We Avoid the Doctor?
- Clamshells and Climate Change
- Too Smart Car
- Cape Cod’s Big Drinking Water Problem
- Ants and Alzheimer’s
- The Other End of the River
- Not Just a Death, a System Failure
- Every Cell Has a Story
BU Research
A scientist’s quest to understand cancer, by unraveling the mysteries of cell division
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Read the article - Will US ever be able to clean up Spanish coast?
PRI: The World
A science writer reflects on the limits of technology
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Read the article - Lessons From Teo
Bostonia
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What the ruins of a pre-Aztec metropolis can teach us about today’s cities - Truths and Half-Truths
BU Research
An ecologist, an estuary, and a case study for communicating climate change
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Read the article - Five Thousand Heads Are Better Than One
- Is Butter Really Back?
The Harvard Public Health Review
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Is fat friend or foe? The dietary debate rages on. - How to get an A- in Organic Chemistry
- Out of Sorts
- The Nuclear Option
- Dirty Laundry
C-HIT / Hartford Courant
The investigation of an industrial laundry in Waterbury, CT, led to an EPA inquiry and the discovery of a dangerous – and surprising – source of air pollution. This article, researched over the course of four months, was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Society for Environmental Journalists. Since its publication, the EPA has altered the regulations regarding the laundering of shop towels.
Continue reading → - Why We are Fat
Bostonia
A profile of biochemist Barbara Corkey, who offers some contrarian explanations for the obesity epidemic.
Continue reading → - The Unstoppable Mr. McKibben
Boston Globe Magazine
How a mild-mannered Vermont journalist engineered history’s largest green protest, derailed a $7 billion oil pipeline, and became the environmental movement’s most unlikely celebrity.
Continue reading → - Down the Rabbit Hole
Columbia Journalism Review
My five-year quest to pry secret documents from the DOE.
Continue reading → - Power Politics
Boston Globe Magazine
In 2010, the Vermont State Senate voted to close Vermont Yankee, the state’s only nuclear power plant. What does the vote mean for New England, and America?
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