Editor w/ @NYTScience, former editor & staff writer @NewYorker. Author,"Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation." Future futurist, minor planet #9291.
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I wrote about "The Lessons of the Pandemic," an article that ran in Science in 1919, and how those lessons still apply today nytimes.com/2021/03/16/healt…
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“'There’s all kinds of wild stuff down there'” -- I got to hang onto the coattails of Chona Kasinger's amazing photos of the dock fouling (and biofouling) community in Seattle and beyond: nyti.ms/4jJqQw2
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Our new NYT as-told-to series, "Lost Science," documents the work of researchers who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. Share your story with us! nyti.ms/474lMdv
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Part 2 of "Math, Revealed," by @stevenstrogatz and the superb visual team at @nytimes, features Leonardo da Vinci and bellybuttons
This week's installment in my "Math, Revealed" series for @nytimes: Navel Gazing and the Golden Ratio. nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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My new #math series in the New York Times, "Math, Revealed," is aimed at everyone, whether you love math or not. Have a look! You can read it here for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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Friends, Brooklynites, book-lovers: Join us tonight at @greenlightbklyn Bookstore in Brooklyn, where the fab @suedominus will talk about her new book, "The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success," with the equally fab @emilynussbaum. Curly hair alert!
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Soooo delighted at the publication at last of "The Family Dynamic: A Journey Into the Mystery of Sibling Success," by the phenomenal @susandominus !! It's an intimate, thoughtful, engaging exploration of the inner mechanics of families and the science of achievement. Get yours!
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New band name: Death Receptor 6 nytimes.com/2023/07/19/scien…
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“In today’s scholar-eat-scholar world of paleoanthropology …” nytimes.com/2023/07/01/scien…
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The difference between the 2016 LIGO discovery and today's announcement one is basically the difference between the 1979 "Alien" and the 1986 "Aliens" nytimes.com/2023/06/28/scien…
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Kudos to NYT Fellow @__katrinarenee for this fantastic piece on the grav-wave discovery! nytimes.com/2023/06/28/scien…
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When the bling in England fell mainly down the drain nytimes.com/2023/05/01/scien…
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"How to Get Ants in Your Plants" nytimes.com/2023/04/24/scien…
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Yes, all the kids are suddenly playing chess -- that's no accident nytimes.com/2023/04/24/scien…
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I used chatGPT to write my year-end employee evaluation and it turns out I won a Pulitzer that nobody told me about, for editing a series of articles that doesn't exist
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(ethical) death to rats!
“'They’re intelligent animals, they make decisions, they regret when they make decisions, they’re altruistic — everything we have going, they have going.'”
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