My story on bedbugs is now up on Slate. This story was inspired by a series of run-ins with bedbugs — both real and assumed — in Baltimore and Washington, DC. Writing this piece helped reaffirm for me how little we know about household biology (who exactly are the tiny critters we co-habitate with?) and [...] Continue Reading
Friend Monica Campbell has a nice piece in Nieman Reports, a site of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard where Campbell was a fellow last year, about our respective experiences finding funding through university research centers. She describes her own work with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School [...] Continue Reading
I took this photo yesterday from the University of Texas-El Paso campus. On Aug. 21, a stray bullet randomly flew from approximately this neighborhood on the Mexican side of the border into a glass door on campus during a shootout. Students were apparently “unfazed” in their excitement to start school. Life on the border goes [...] Continue Reading