Recent Articles
For one month, Evan Ratliff shed his identity and tried to disappear. Here’s what happened.
Wired, December, 2009
What Does it Take to Really Disappear?
Wired, September, 2009
How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown
Wired, July, 2009
210 Minutes With Michael Lewis
He wrote the book on baseball and now has a new one on fatherhood. But can he lead the Dynamite, his daughter’s softball team, to victory?
New York, June 8, 2009
Some travel can be like a journey through Purgatory, but even the worst trip can be saved by the perfect moment
Outside GO, Spring 2009
Legendary folklorist Alan Dundes took jokes to another level
California, March/April, 2009
The Animal that Taught Me Things and Changed Lives
McSweeney’s.net, April 1, 2009
An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army
The New Yorker, February 23, 2009
A New Kind of Economic Stimulus
Prying open government data coffers will do more than increase transparency. It will be a boon for business.
Portfolio.com, February 17, 2009
Barack Obama promised to reboot the White House. But first he’ll have to navigate a little federal legal gobbledygook. Hope? Well, it’s a start.
Wired, February, 2009
Corn ethanol turns out to be a terrible idea, but a new generation of biofuels is nearly ready for the pump.
Men’s Journal, December, 2008
Feed Your Head (or, How Fighter Pilots Stay Sharp)
Popular with air force pilots, ER docs, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs as a stay-awake drug, Provigil also appears to enhance brain function.
Men’s Journal, November, 2008
Mark Smolinski: Detect Epidemics Before They Begin
From: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To
Wired, October, 2008
When the founder of Swiss company de Grisogono set out to create a mechanical digital timepiece, he wasn’t sure it would work. It did. Behold the Meccanico dG.
Men’s Journal, September, 2008
A small sample of DNA is all it takes to find out what the future holds for your health. But do you want to know?
Men’s Journal, August, 2008
Marc van Roosmalen is one of the most famous biologists in the Amazon. Now he’s looking at 14 years in prison for biopiracy.
Wired, June, 2008
Has a surfer-snowboarder who lives in a van rewritten physics? Maybe.
Outside, May 2008
