Boston Globe Magazine
My car wants to drive. I’m not interested.
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Boston Globe Magazine
The challenges of life on a sandbar
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Bostonia
What ants tell us about aging
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Sandro Galea and the Future of Public health
Bostonia
The new health crises: crime, poverty, racism
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New York Times
What my mother’s death taught me
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BU Research
A scientist’s quest to understand cancer, by unraveling the mysteries of cell division
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PRI: The World
A science writer reflects on the limits of technology
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Bostonia
Bostonia
What the ruins of a pre-Aztec metropolis can teach us about today’s cities
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BU Research
An ecologist, an estuary, and a case study for communicating climate change
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BU Research
What ants teach us about the social brain
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The Harvard Public Health Review
The Harvard Public Health Review Is fat friend or foe? The dietary debate rages on. Read the article
New York Times
Two semesters of orgo, and I’m still standing!
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Boston Globe Magazine Are Big Blue Bins bad for recycling? Read the article
Boston Globe Magazine What does Vermont Yankee’s closing mean for New England? Read the article
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. […]
Bostonia
A profile of biochemist Barbara Corkey, who offers some contrarian explanations for the obesity epidemic.
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Why do prescription drugs cost so much? We unraveled this question through the stories of unlikely “drug runners” – senior citizens and union workers seeking cheaper medicine in Canada.
The Kodak camera revolutionized photography, and, unexpectedly, offered a new tool to Peeping Toms. All the snapshots in the opening shot are originals — it was surprisingly hard to find a couple photos that weren’t properly centered.
What happens when you try to grow grass in the Astrodome? A comedy of errors that results in a breakthrough technology. Some of the best footage came from an old wooden cabinet at the Houston Public Library.
A clip from my one and only independent documentary, which tells the story of a unique road race in Somerville, MA. Yes, this is a true story. When I screened the film for a local film class, they thought I had made it up.
This Peabody-award-winning NOVA examines the controversy that erupted in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania over the teaching of evolution. It took months of work and many trips to Dover to secure interviews with the key players on both sides of the debate.
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.
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My five-year quest to pry secret documents from the DOE.
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? Read the article