Journalist, Storyteller, Radio Producer. Also: musician, yogi, martial artist. Stories @outsidemagazine @atavist @TrlyAdventurous @highcountrynews
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"Crooked cops, judges, and county employees accepted poached meat as gifts and arranged cover-ups. People in the valley who opposed poaching mostly stayed silent."
A look inside the new @atavist story, by Nick Davidson: longreads.com/2026/05/07/und…
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Timber poaching is one of the biggest threats to old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest. This team of detectives is using new forensics technology to track down the thieves.
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Edition #67 features fantastic long reads from:
@BilgeEbiri @michaelwwaters @johngitt @skurutz @bananapeele @katie_prout @xpatriciah @Al_Peeair @embot @liz_crampton @Lawrence_Ukenye @mkerrhardy @kaylawebley @NickGDavidson
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Ballooning's biggest race pushes teams to fly as far as possible before landing. Thirty years ago, two of those teams drifted into Belarusian airspace. Only one survived.
From @NickGDavidson comes Atavist no. 161: "The Balloon that Fell from the Sky."
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"Since the race’s inception, nine pilots had perished from mountainside crashes, unexpected plummets, or rogue lightning storms."
An excerpt from the new @atavist story, "The Balloon that Fell from the Sky," by @NickGDavidson: longreads.com/2025/04/03/bal…
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Just 2% of the heat 4 miles beneath America could meet the country’s energy needs 2,000 times over. We’re finally figuring out how to reach it.
My @NewYorker investigation into geothermal energy’s incredible potential: newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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Dangerous doctors are surprisingly difficult to dislodge from the U.S. medical system. For @MensHealthMag, I investigated one particularly deranged and tragic case in Dallas. menshealth.com/health/a62978…
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A riveting tale of love and war from @satopol that reads like a novel. Easily the best thing I've read in @NYTmag of late.
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An old story from the phenomenal @jfagone, but this is among my favorite reads lately. Hard to imagine an AI tech story with more humanity at its core. Brought me tears more than once.
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You know this only makes sense if ancient humans were capable of flight. Or, I guess, aliens.
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Multiple editor reads are valuable, but I'm casting my vote for just a single mag editor making actual changes to a draft.
In editing, one common issue I see across mags is "editor telephone": when multiple layers of editors add, remove or rearrange copy in such a way that the original flow or meaning is jumbled. As the writer, it feels odd being asked by one editor to edit what another editor added.
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I'm such a big fan of Jason Rohrer's transcendent game-designing journey right now. #ProjectSkydrop
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Can't imagine this going wrong. Then again, this is exactly the sort of ingenuity we need to consider. nytimes.com/2024/09/23/clima…
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What a beautiful and beautifully written love story by @Kelsey_Rex with @atavist. Beware sudden tears with the finals lines!
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Doesn't make much cents to me.
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"Squint, and you can see it: a scenario in which the loneliness crisis today is really a mass period of acclimatization. It’s a bridge, an evolutionary step, during which we make our peace with certain trade-offs and realities."
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Another fun, funny, reflective essay at the fringes from the inimitable Leath Tonino @outsidemagazine outsideonline.com/outdoor-ad…
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Tough, heartbreaking story from @atavist, and a great read.
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