A little late posting this, but I made a pair of appearances on National Public Radio recently, both times discussing the ins and outs of cellulosic ethanol based on my Wired piece. Both shows are archived for your listening pleasure:

First off, “Talk of the Nation Science Friday,” on October 5.

Followed by “Fair Game,” November 15.

Posted at 6:25 pm | Comments Off | Filed under Environment/Energy, Media appearances, Recent stories, Science, Wired |

UPDATE 11/18: The site has changed over to www.atavist.net, along with the emails. The old links and emails will continue to work, but please update to atavist.net from here on.

As previous visitors will note, I’ve made some changes to the site in the past week. Please let me know if you come across any errors, broken links etc. (The site has also been down off an on for a few days, due to unrelated trouble at my hosting company, but that is hopefully now resolved.)

Also, please note that in the next few weeks the whole site will be migrating to a new domain: www.atavist.net (in fact, if you go to that domain now it will bring you here.)

My email addresses will also be changing, from @atavistic.org to @atavist.net. The old addresses will continue to forward, and the old web site links will work.

Posted at 12:21 pm | Comments Off | Filed under Site business |


I'm Evan Ratliff, a freelance journalist, founder/editor The Atavist and feature writer for Wired, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and other publications. I'm also the story editor for Pop-Up Magazine, the world's first live magazine.

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