Selected Writing
An unscientific assortment of features, essays, news and ideas pieces, and reviews I’ve written. All the installments of The Synthesist, my column about the intersection of technology and nature, are available at OnEarth.
- The (New) Web of Life: All the known creatures on Earth may soon be a click away
- The Middle of Nowhere: What Alaska’s tundra is teaching scientists about climate change
- Welcome to My Paperless World
- The Wonder Land of Socotra, Yemen
- Interview with Will Wright: The master of the computer ‘god game’ tackles alien life and dreams up a world that would make Darwin drool
- The Lives They Lived: Miriam Rothschild
- The Truth About Invasive Species: How to stop worrying and learn to love ecological intruders
- Seeding the Universe The search for life on Mars could be a bit complicated by the hitchhikers on our rovers
- Gross Anatomy: Technology makes cadavers an art form and dissection uncomfortably real
- Socket To Me (The Biology of Batteries)
- Brother Can You Spare 18 Cents? (The Mathematics of Pocket Change)
- Stopping Time: What can you do in a billionth of a billionth of a second?
- Why I Love Her
- I Was DeNiro’s Leg: Tales from the parts-modeling industry
- Sheaves of Grass: The Re-opening of the New York Botanical Garden Library and Herbarium
- Four Ears to the Ground: For the elephant, the foot may be a powerful listening device
- Victim of Geology: Whatever you do, don’t get started on fossils
- Here Comes the Sun: Get ready for space weather, the perfect foil for a new century’s ambitions
- Now Hear This: Listening back on a century of sound
