“Finally, Scientists Uncover the Genetic Basis of Fingerprints”, The Scientist, 2/23/23
“The cities built to be reusable”, BBC Future, 2/7/23
“Hiking With Your Dog Off-Leash Could Create Problems for Nature”, Discover, 1/19/23
“Monir Moniruzzaman Studies the Secrets of Giant Viruses”, The Scientist, 1/2/23
“Do Animals Like Dogs Experience Social Commitment Like Humans?”, Discover, 11/12/22
“Research Pinpoints the Neurons Behind Feeling Sick”, The Scientist, 9/23/22
“Handing the surgeon’s scalpel to a robot”, Knowable Magazine, 9/13/22
“Will Miami Exist in 2050? 4 Strategies Could Keep U.S. Coastal Cities Afloat”, Inverse, 8/12/22
“Is the Silence of the Great Plains to Blame for ‘Prairie Madness’?”, Atlas Obscura, 7/22/22
“How Does Your Dog Understand You?”, Discover, 5/24/22
“What Old Dogs Can Teach Us About Aging”, Discover, 4/8/22
“This Fungus Has More Than 17,000 Sexes”, The Scientist, 4/20/22
“Chimpanzees Observed Applying Insects to Their Wounds”, Inside Science, 2/7/22
“In Underground Waterways, an Endangered Ecosystem”, Undark, 2/7/22
“How Climate Change Will Shift the Farming Landscape for Coffee, Cashews and Avocados”, Inside Science, 1/26/22
“How Crowds Run When Bulls Charge”, Inside Science, 12/7/21
“Iron Deposits in Pigeon Ears are Useless for Navigating”, Inside Science, 11/15/21
“David Gate Probes Links Between Alzheimer’s and the Immune System”, The Scientist, 11/1/21
“How to handle climate anxiety”, Knowable Magazine, 9/29/21
“Years of Prozac Alter Lipids in Young Monkeys’ Brains: Study”, The Scientist, 9/10/21
“Glaciers Are Disappearing and So Too Might the Microbial Ecosystems Within”, Inside Science, 7/13/21
“Building a better edible”, Knowable Magazine, 5/26/21
“Tiny Crystals Point to Date Plate Tectonics Began”, Inside Science, 5/14/21
“The varied landscape of universal health care”, Knowable Magazine, 3/9/21
“Turning to dirt for antibiotics in the fight against superbugs”, CNN, 10/6/20
“5 Things to Watch Following the U.N. Climate Summit”, REI Co-Op Blog, 10/3/19
“Millions of Athletes hit the Ocean Every Year. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Seeing.”, REI Co-op Blog, 9/16/19
“How Beavers, the Original Ecosystem Engineers, May Help the American West Adapt to Climate Change.”, The Weather Channel, 9/16/19
“Sand Dams, an Ancient, Little-Known Technique, Could Help Farmers Weather Climate Change”, The Weather Channel, 9/3/19
“South Korea’s Green and Seed Grows Rice With Less Water”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2019
“Forest Restoration for Fuel”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2/15/19
“Making Salty Water Drinkable Also Makes Brine,” Inside Science, 1/14/19
“After caring for the critters at Woodland Park Zoo for more than 40 years, animal-rehab pioneer plans her retirement”, Seattle Times’ Pacific NW Magazine, 12/13/18
“The bonus story of how Harmony Frazier panicked a plane full of passengers” Seattle Times’ Pacific NW Magazine, 12/13/18
“The Decline of the Largest Aspen Colony in the World”, Inside Science, 10/17/18
“'Strikingly' Effective at Fighting Cancer -- But at What Cost?”, Inside Science, 10/10/18
“SPIT Lab Finds How Saliva Shapes Taste”, Inside Science, 8/20/18
“Cocktails and Conservation Pair Perfectly at Seward Park Audubon Center”, Audubon, 8/16/18
“Through Education and Research, a Second Life for Animal Contraband”, Undark, 7/18/18
“Scientists Announce 10 New Moons for Jupiter”, Inside Science, 7/17/18
“The Many Factors Behind Getting Food to People After a Disaster”, Inside Science, 6/18/18
“Brain Activity Alternates While Walking”, Inside Science, 5/14/18
“The Link Between Gray Hair and Viral Infections”, Inside Science, 5/3/18
“What Rocket Science Explains About Whale Hearing”, Inside Science, 4/23/18
“The Shark Poop Diet”, Inside Science, 4/6/18
“Have Backyard Chickens Gone Too Free-Range?”, CityLab, 3/23/18
“Brain Scans in the Courts: Prosecutor's Dream or Civil Rights Nightmare?”, Inside Science, 3/14/18
“The Experimental Forest Where Scientists First Recognized Acid Rain”, Atlas Obscura, 3/13/18
“Flooding: Water potential,” Nature, 3/16/16
“'Inside Einstein's Mind': New TV Show Explores Journey to Relativity”, Live Science, 11/25/15
“New 'Making North America' Series Explores Continent's Rich History”, Live Science, 11/11/15
“Mooooove Over, Cows! Kangaroo Farts Warm the Earth, Too”, Live Science, 11/5/15
“Baby Duck-Billed Dinos Unearthed in 'Dragon's Tomb' Nest”, Live Science, 10/14/15
“It's a Monster! Apes Remember Scary Movie Scenes”, Live Science, 9/17/15
“How Armored Dinosaur Got Its Bone-Bashing Tail”, Live Science, 9/11/15
“Moose mortality: scientists try to explain mystery of animals’ decline”, The Guardian’s Observer Tech Monthly (internship), 5/1/15
Upworthy and GOOD
I was employed full-time as a writer at Upworthy and later Good Worldwide after their acquisition of Upworthy. Articles of mine appeared on both sites.
Graduate School Work
Unfortunately, an error in website hosting means that much of my work from graduate school is not available. Here is what is available to read:
“House calls to the Youth of Yesterday in El Salvador”, Science 151, 3/5/15
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