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Some Links To My Work

Recent work
Your Boss Wants to Spy on Your Inner Feelings – Scientific American feature (subs. only: here is a link to a PDF)

Limits to Growth: Can AI’s Voracious Appetite for Data Be Tamed? – Undark Magazine


Asthma takes a hard toll on African-Americans. Can precision medicine ease the burden? – Statnews.com

The Training Of Dr. Robot: Data Wave Hits Medical Care – Washington Post (Kaiser Health News)

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 – Statnews.com

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.

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 posts on the Guardian online

My Huffington Post blog

Hurricane Katrina


2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Katrina coverage (my stories investigating levee breaks/on Netherlands flood control 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 (some of it)

2000 series Unwelcome Neighbors: How the Poor Bear the Burdens of America’s Pollution

2003 series Fatal Mission (pdf of first day) on how military outsourcing led to plane crashes/deaths/hostage-takings in Colombia

Book reviews
Katrina: A History, 1915–2015, by Andy Horowitz (Washington Monthly)


Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney (Washington Post)

Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, by Stephen Flynn (Washington Post)


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