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Coming Up Small 11 May 2012 | 05:09 am
I’ve been a fan of Atlanta’s three major sports teams for as long as I can remember. For at least 25 years of support and occasional bouts of deep devotion, these franchises—the Hawks, the Falcons, an...
Remembering JR Minkel 25 Jan 2012 | 07:37 am
A charcoal drawing of JR by his Aunt Nancy. Exactly a year ago, I lost a close friend. JR was among the most brilliant, most engaging, and most enigmatic people I’ve met in my life. Though we were fr...
Senior Editor at Archaeology 11 Jul 2011 | 03:36 am
This post is way overdue, as I’ve been working at Archaeology magazine for a while now. Anyway, yes, that happened. My former managing editor at Seed, Claudia Valentino, plucked me out of the freelanc...
Education Blogging at GOOD 10 Jan 2010 | 08:55 am
It’s 2010. After a year of some soul-searching, unemployment-collecting and taking every possible opportunity handed to me, I have finally put together a reasonably solid base for a freelance career. ...
Moving With Heavy Heart, R.I.P. Jerry Fuchs 13 Nov 2009 | 04:04 pm
Tonight, in Brooklyn, friends of Jerry Fuchs are gathering to share their grief, but also to share stories and celebrate the life of an extraordinary person. I count myself as a friend of Jerry’s and ...
Teaming Up with My Pops 11 Feb 2009 | 08:25 am
So, my dad and I now have a joint web venture. It’s not going to be the next Gawker or ScienceBlogs or anything, but it’s surprisingly of-the-moment, especially for peanut butter fiends. We just launc...
Back on the Blog 20 Dec 2008 | 08:49 am
So, I started this site back in July, during a mental health week from Scientific American. Writing a story a day (or thereabouts) on neuroscience, stem cells, or whatever was shooting me toward burno...
Bill Gates Must Die* 15 Jul 2008 | 10:22 am
Yesterday, I bought an iPhone. I think that officially makes me an Apple fanboy. My watershed purchase occurred just two weeks after Steve Job’s chief rival—Bill Gates—departed as CEO of Microsoft. G...
Sorry about the scaffolding … 8 Jul 2008 | 05:20 pm
Clearly this page is under construction. Still, there are some clips for you to peruse, as well as an email address and phone number to aid you in stalking me. I’ll fix this place up over the next co...
