Some Links To My Work
Recent work
Make America Wait Again: Trump Tries to Delay Regulations out of Existence – Scientific American
Trump Officials Act to Tilt Federal Science Boards Toward Industry – Scientific American
One Big Legal Obstacle Keeps Trump from Undoing Greenhouse Gas Regulation – Scientific American
Trump at the Pump: Car Companies Move to Create Fuel-Efficiency Double Standard – Scientific American
Florida Has Seen Bad Effects from Trump-Like Climate Gag Orders – Scientific American
Proposed Presidential Autism–Vaccine Panel Could Help Spread Disease – Scientific American
Without These Whistleblowers, We May Never Have Known the Full Extent of the Flint Water Crisis – Smithsonian Magazine
Technology companies are racing to track patients’ behavior in real time – Statnews.com
Patient mix-ups happen more often than you think. Why the easy fix isn’t easy at all – Stat
Katrina 10th anniversary cri du coeur: America Is Forgetting the Lessons It Never Learned From Hurricane Katrina
Books
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat (Scribner, 2015)
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina (Center for Public Integrity/LSU Press, 2007; co-author with six others)
Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms (Little, Brown & Co., 2006; co-author with Mark Schleifstein)
Tasty excerpts
Why We Love the Pain of Spicy Food – The Wall Street Journal
The First Potato Chip: A very short book excerpt – The Atlantic
Getting bitter: Tasty, The Art and Science of What We Eat traces the evolution of flavour in human cultures – National Post
The mysteries of chili heat: Why people love the pain – Salon
Tasty pieces/posts
Slate:
The Science of Mmm: How food and drink tickle the brain's pleasure centers
Secret Sauce: Umami is what makes savory foods so delicious
Why Do We Like Bitter Foods? There are receptors for bitter compounds all over your body
More work
Hurricanes and Climate Change – Nova
Is Genetically Engineered Food the Food of the Future? - EatingWell
The Secrets Behind Your Flowers - Smithsonian Magazine
Panel Chief on the Gulf Spill: Complacency Led to Disaster - Interview with William Reilly, co-chair of presidential oil spill commission, Yale Environment 360
The Green Cross - Do we need one to respond to environmental disasters? Conservation Magazine
Legacy of the Gulf Spill: What to Expect for the Future? - Yale Environment 360
Anatomy of the BP Oil Spill: An Accident Waiting to Happen - Yale Environment 360
In Search of New Waters, Fish Farming Moves Offshore - Yale Environment 360
Will Obama's Choice Change Education in America? - Profile of Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, in Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education Magazine
The Netroots: Bloggers and the 2008 Presidential Campaign - Nieman Reports
Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams - Yale Environment 360. The science tells us that ecological damage from mountaintop coal mining means Obama's compromise approach won't make much difference.
The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited: Yale Environment 360. On the Obama administration's new strategy for easing the impacts of MTR.
Mining the Mountain - Smithsonian Magazine. On mountaintop removal coal mining.
The Demise of the Washington News Bureau - The American Prospect
Prediction Markets Are Hot, But Here's Why They Can Be So Wrong - Wired
How to Help Burma - The Guardian online. When a cyclone hits a xenophobic police state, what can the world do?
Storm Warning – Mother Jones series on the troubled future of New Orleans
Can’t-Do Nation: Is America Losing Its Knack for Getting Big Things Done? - Washington Post Outlook. What Iraq and Katrina and a host of other things have in common
Is Global Warming Causing Bigger Hurricanes? - Slate.com
My Forbes blog
My True/Slant blog
My posts on the Guardian online
My Huffington Post blog
Hurricane Katrina
2002 series Washing Away: How South Louisiana is Becoming More Vulnerable to a Catastrophic Hurricane
2005 post-Katrina series on Dutch flood control
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Katrina coverage (my stories investigating levee breaks submitted as part of TP entry)
Times-Picayune series
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World Fisheries Doomed?”
1999 Pulitzer finalist for national reporting - Home Wreckers: How the Formosan Termite is Devastating New Orleans
2000 series Unwelcome Neighbors: How the Poor Bear the Burdens of America’s Pollution
2003 series Fatal Mission on how military outsourcing led to plane crashes/deaths/hostage-takings in Colombia
Book reviews
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney
Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, by Stephen Flynn
Media
Some thoughts on what's next for investigative journalism, ca. 2006. (It has sort-of come true.)
Make America Wait Again: Trump Tries to Delay Regulations out of Existence – Scientific American
Trump Officials Act to Tilt Federal Science Boards Toward Industry – Scientific American
One Big Legal Obstacle Keeps Trump from Undoing Greenhouse Gas Regulation – Scientific American
Trump at the Pump: Car Companies Move to Create Fuel-Efficiency Double Standard – Scientific American
Florida Has Seen Bad Effects from Trump-Like Climate Gag Orders – Scientific American
Proposed Presidential Autism–Vaccine Panel Could Help Spread Disease – Scientific American
Without These Whistleblowers, We May Never Have Known the Full Extent of the Flint Water Crisis – Smithsonian Magazine
Technology companies are racing to track patients’ behavior in real time – Statnews.com
Patient mix-ups happen more often than you think. Why the easy fix isn’t easy at all – Stat
Katrina 10th anniversary cri du coeur: America Is Forgetting the Lessons It Never Learned From Hurricane Katrina
Books
Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat (Scribner, 2015)
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina (Center for Public Integrity/LSU Press, 2007; co-author with six others)
Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms (Little, Brown & Co., 2006; co-author with Mark Schleifstein)
Tasty excerpts
Why We Love the Pain of Spicy Food – The Wall Street Journal
The First Potato Chip: A very short book excerpt – The Atlantic
Getting bitter: Tasty, The Art and Science of What We Eat traces the evolution of flavour in human cultures – National Post
The mysteries of chili heat: Why people love the pain – Salon
Tasty pieces/posts
Slate:
The Science of Mmm: How food and drink tickle the brain's pleasure centers
Secret Sauce: Umami is what makes savory foods so delicious
Why Do We Like Bitter Foods? There are receptors for bitter compounds all over your body
More work
Hurricanes and Climate Change – Nova
Is Genetically Engineered Food the Food of the Future? - EatingWell
The Secrets Behind Your Flowers - Smithsonian Magazine
Panel Chief on the Gulf Spill: Complacency Led to Disaster - Interview with William Reilly, co-chair of presidential oil spill commission, Yale Environment 360
The Green Cross - Do we need one to respond to environmental disasters? Conservation Magazine
Legacy of the Gulf Spill: What to Expect for the Future? - Yale Environment 360
Anatomy of the BP Oil Spill: An Accident Waiting to Happen - Yale Environment 360
In Search of New Waters, Fish Farming Moves Offshore - Yale Environment 360
Will Obama's Choice Change Education in America? - Profile of Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, in Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education Magazine
The Netroots: Bloggers and the 2008 Presidential Campaign - Nieman Reports
Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams - Yale Environment 360. The science tells us that ecological damage from mountaintop coal mining means Obama's compromise approach won't make much difference.
The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited: Yale Environment 360. On the Obama administration's new strategy for easing the impacts of MTR.
Mining the Mountain - Smithsonian Magazine. On mountaintop removal coal mining.
The Demise of the Washington News Bureau - The American Prospect
Prediction Markets Are Hot, But Here's Why They Can Be So Wrong - Wired
How to Help Burma - The Guardian online. When a cyclone hits a xenophobic police state, what can the world do?
Storm Warning – Mother Jones series on the troubled future of New Orleans
Can’t-Do Nation: Is America Losing Its Knack for Getting Big Things Done? - Washington Post Outlook. What Iraq and Katrina and a host of other things have in common
Is Global Warming Causing Bigger Hurricanes? - Slate.com
My Forbes blog
My True/Slant blog
My posts on the Guardian online
My Huffington Post blog
Hurricane Katrina
2002 series Washing Away: How South Louisiana is Becoming More Vulnerable to a Catastrophic Hurricane
2005 post-Katrina series on Dutch flood control
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Katrina coverage (my stories investigating levee breaks submitted as part of TP entry)
Times-Picayune series
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World Fisheries Doomed?”
1999 Pulitzer finalist for national reporting - Home Wreckers: How the Formosan Termite is Devastating New Orleans
2000 series Unwelcome Neighbors: How the Poor Bear the Burdens of America’s Pollution
2003 series Fatal Mission on how military outsourcing led to plane crashes/deaths/hostage-takings in Colombia
Book reviews
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney
Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, by Stephen Flynn
Media
Some thoughts on what's next for investigative journalism, ca. 2006. (It has sort-of come true.)