Favorite articles
(my own favorites, that is)
The F.B.I. needs informants, but what happens when they go too far?
The New Yorker, May 2, 2011
An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army
The New Yorker
February 23, 2009
Marc van Roosmalen is one of the most famous biologists in the Amazon. Now he’s looking at 14 years in prison for biopiracy.
Wired
June, 2008
Has a surfer-snowboarder who lives in a van rewritten physics? Maybe.
Outside
May 2008
People with a syndrome called déjà vecu spend much of their time living through experiences they are convinced have happened before. Researchers think the phenomenon may be a clue to some of the enduring mysteries of memory.
The New York Times Magazine
July 2, 2006
On the trail of cyberextortionists
The New Yorker
October 10, 2005
In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of “creation science” is invading America’s classrooms.
Wired
October 2004
