For the month of May, 2022, which marks Popular Science magazine’s 150th year, I’ve curated some amazing stories from the archives. From Germ Theory (1883) to the advent of cellular technology (1978), new-old pieces will be published each day with some insight. Check it out!
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Delmarva Review Volume 14 – Our Best Yet
As Managing Editor of Delmarva Review, I’m thrilled by the exceptional and inspiring prose and poetry we’ve captured in Volume 14, our largest edition yet. You really won’t want to miss these thought-provoking and entertaining stories.
Making the Invisible Visible: Challenges to Explaining Deep Tech
Please join me and my illustrious Science Writing colleagues tomorrow at 12:30pm EDT for a Science Writers 2021 panel you won’t want to miss. Hear directly from Emily Mullin, Anne McGovern, Kenna Castleberry, and Brandie Jefferson how they tackle the challenges of writing about everything from quantum computing and gene therapy to chaos theory and […]
Popular Science “The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science”
These US-based engineers, psychologists, chemists, and more are taking on society’s biggest challenges across the world. Check out my new feature in Popular Science. These young scientists are inspiring! The Brilliant 10
Popular Science “The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine”
100 years ago, doctors sent a heartbeat over a phone line, as reported by Popular Science in 1921 , but devices enabling remote care may have finally found their moment: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine
Popular Science “Can we make ourselves more empathetic?”
This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science’s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still […]
