Good Transitions: A Guide to Cementing Stories Together
Most writers learned in elementary school that a good story requires a compelling beginning, middle, and end. But how does one make the pieces fit neatly together?
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Featured Articles
Climate Swings Drove Early Humans Out of Africa (and Back Again)
A new study details how climate change directed early modern humans’ intricate dance among continents and pushes back their dispersal out of Africa to at least 100,000 years ago.
Identifying as a Different Gender (Part 2 of 2)
As children make gender transitions at younger ages, the real difference is growing public acceptance.
Gender: When the Body & Brain Disagree (Part 1 of 2)
Researchers are trying to unravel the tangled roots of gender identity.
The Mindfulness Meditation Guide
Our mindfulness meditation guide can help you get around roadblocks and on the path to contentment.
7 Amazing Holistic Brain Benefits of Meditation
A slew of scientific studies suggest that mindfulness meditation offers some powerful holistic health benefits.
Survival of the Fittest Corals
Coral populations have been decimated around the world due to several culprits. But some corals show a surprising knack for survival in challenging conditions. Researchers are working to tap into these biological tricks.
A Planetary Fix?
Underground carbon storage is one of the most viable solutions for funneling heat-trapping gases out of the atmosphere. Volcanic rock lying beneath Iceland and elsewhere around the globe could provide a vast and permanent geological burial ground for CO2, stored as rock. The biggest hurdle is not a technological one.
About Me
I am spending the 2020-2021 academic year as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. From 2015 until August 2020, I was the founding managing editor of SAPIENS, an editorially independent online publication devoted to making anthropology accessible and relevant to the general public. Before that, I spent a decade as a freelance journalist covering health, neuroscience, energy, the environment, and everything in between. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nature, Science, New Scientist, Audubon, and elsewhere.