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Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Nuclear History
Nuclear physics and the context of its development during World War II and the Cold War continue to drive fantasies and the reality of scientific research. By artistically documenting historical research apparatus, isotope production facilities, and disaster sites, I hope to shed light on the tremendously difficult questions raised by the application of nuclear energy in the 20th century. To […]
Summer of Science
During the summer of 2009, fellow science writer Lizzie Wade and I drove 15,000 miles across America to take the pulse of American high energy physics as the Large Hadron Collider slowly rumbled to life in Europe. After visits to eight DOE national laboratories, a NASA lab, the Very Large Array and the abandoned site […]
Writing
Writing is a joy, but most of my work is for small private audiences. One favorite publicly accessible example, my review of Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety can be found on the New York Daily News site.
Great Ape Cognitive Research Trends
In 2007 and 2008, I conducted a large-scale meta-study of great ape cognitive research by reading and categorizing the abstracts of every great ape paper in the PsycINFO database published between 1992 and 2006. In addition to significant growth of the field, I found an increasing emphasis on socially-oriented research. Though studies concerning physical cognition […]
The Epistemic Consequences of Genetic Patenting
The legal acceptance of patents on genetic material unleashed a flood of funding for basic research into genetics and ultimately led to a number of successful medical diagnostics and treatments. However, conducting basic research within an explicitly capitalist framework while conforming to the specific requirements of patents vs. publications places particular pressures on the subjects, methods and results […]