I’ve been writing for the New York Times for twenty years — including stints as a columnist for the NYT Magazine and as a contributing writer at the Sunday Times. I was also a columnist at the Boston Globe Magazine and Village Voice and have published in many other outlets including Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Boston Magazine, and Ms. Magazine. Here’s a selection of my work.
A New York Times article that I’m expanding into a book.
Don’t ask these dead longevity researchers.
A trip to a West Virginia town inside the Quiet Zone.
Can a centuries-old technology help to clean them up the shipping industry?
It turns out that inventors are late bloomers.
“When you say that you’re going to build a company around menstrual blood, people think you’re joking.”
The strange science of cuteness
The fat drug
Agricultural science shows that antibiotics can act like a kind of superfood to produce cheap meat. But what if that meat is us?
The insomnia machine
A modern cure for a modern disease
Super-encounterers
Some people have a special talent for making discoveries. How can we all learn from them?
She invented the home pregnancy test…
… the adventures of a young artist in the 1960s.
The Alzheimer’s test
If a simple test can tell you whether you have it, do you want to know?
Why are police more dangerous than airplanes?
What hunter-gatherers can teach us about brain science