Ever since reading an article by Jonah Lehrer in the Boston Globe last week and blogging about it at TreeHugger, I can’t stop thinking about how Washington, DC might be hurting my brain. To remedy the surfeit of trees in my neighborhood and apartment, I plucked a squat but intact Christmas tree off the curb [...]
Here’s a taste of my piece in Slate this week about two recent studies that show that MDR and XDR tuberculosis patients don’t have to be locked up in hospital isolation wards to be cured. In the 1990s, scientists noticed that the deadly class of bacteria that causes tuberculosis had outsmarted the limited drugs available [...]
Tomorrow I am headed to Guatemala for a week to assist with a family project and do some reporting on immigration. It’s been over a year since I last wrote about immigration, having left Mexico in late September 2007, and I have to say I’ve missed the story. A lot has changed in the last [...]
Thanks to SEED’s Daily Zeitgeist, SEED Magazine’s blog that I occasionally read, I was lead to a newish online magazine called The Science Creative Quarterly. Anyone who has ever been to the McSweeney’s site will notice that SCQ’s design and distinctly playful tone is none too original. However, SCQ addresses the likeness up front in [...]
My story on the Muslim fishermen is running on page one of the Monitor today. There’s also a short audio bit you can listen to on the site: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1031/p01s04-woaf.html