Longform
A Month Without Artificial Light. Harper’s. Can light and darkness heal my insomnia?
Can Sunlight Prevent Autoimmune Diseases?. Scientific American. A primer on photoimmunology.
Is It Time to Update Sun-Exposure Recommendations?. The Atlantic. Australia leads a new reckoning.
Is the Civic Standard a New Model for Community Building?. Yankee. What we need is there all along.
Can Mezcal Survive Its Own Boom?. Businessweek. The extraordinary and endangered art of agave.
Mind Everywhere. Scientific American. Intelligence goes all the way down.
The Homeless Herd. Harpers. A ragtag collection of refugee elephants fights for survival along India’s Brahmaputra River.
Ghost Flowers. Scientific American. Can bioengineers resurrect the scent of extinct flowers?
The Unnatural Chestnut. Pacific Standard. The GMO chestnut and the nature of nature.
The Invasivore’s Dilemma. Outside. Eat ’em to beat ’em.
Mirror Lake. Yankee. Seasons, and a life, on a New England pond.
Free at Last. Outside. For a brief moment, the Colorado River runs free through Mexico, and so do we.
Fast Fish, Loose Fish. Harpers. The year Alaska’s king salmon didn’t come back.
The Price of Perfection. Yankee. Shaun Hill pursues the perfect beer.
Deleting a Species. Pacific Standard. Gene drives give us the power of extinction. Should we use it?
The Ocean Plastics Summit. Outside. What happens when the world’s plastic executives face their waste?
The Whale and Me. Outside. Face to face with a sperm whale is a discomfiting place to be.
Rhino Poachers in Kaziranga Park. Outside. Can shoot-to-kill orders be justified?
A Truffle Miracle in North Carolina. Smithsonian. The world’s unlikeliest team pulls off a first.
Tea Drunk. Vice. The first rule of Tea Club is don’t talk about Tea Club.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Oyster Bar. Lucky Peach. It’s all nada y nada y pues cocktail sauce.
Hanging with the Biohackers. Outside. What’s more fun than hacking your own genes?
Do People of Color Need Sunscreen?. Mother Jones. TL;DR: Nope.
Counting Fish. Yankee. Two weeks with NOAA’s most controversial ship in the Gulf of Maine.
Ephemerals. Yankee. Spring is a reminder how fast we all come and go.
The Invulnerable Cell. Scientific American. How to build a virus-proof organism.
Jurassic Lark. Wondertime. Digging dinos with your kid gives new meaning to “deep time.”