Book Review: Behind the Quest for Eternal Life
In “The Price of Immortality,” author Peter Ward weighs products, promises, and scientific advances on their relative likelihood of...
Book Review: The Past, Present, and Future of Poop
In “The Other Dark Matter,” Lina Zeldovich surveys the history and science of how human sewage is handled. When you are interested in...
Why Whale Poop Matters More Than You Might Think
A new paper in Nature suggest whales poop a lot. That’s great news! When a journalist follows a specific beat, they develop a network of...
Death Holidays and Why We Celebrate Them
When one of my favorite editors asked if I would write an article on death holidays for WebMD just in time for Halloween, I happily...
When memes fail anatomy: The scale of a blue whale’s butthole
Is a politician really the world’s second biggest a-hole? Just in time for the new year, I have a story about whale butts! I cannot...
As Election Day Nears, Taking Stock of an Expertise Exodus
This story represents a lot of firsts for me. This is my first politics-heavy story, my first story that required extensive data...