This article was going to be a triumph for me, for many different reasons. First, because it was about Sweden, pretty much. Second, because all the instagram/twitter/blog/facebook stalking I've done over the years came into handy. No one can say all of that was a waste of time any more. I went from a random… Continue reading Third article for WIRED
I wrote about people taking trains, instead of planes, to lower their carbon emissions. I try to do the same thing whenever possible. Last year, I went to a conference in Boston, and I took a bus and overnight train from North Carolina; and I also went to New Orleans for another conference, this time… Continue reading Second article for WIRED
I was interviewing these people. I should have known they would turn out to be annoying because they were the only ones who had a secretary set the call up. And they're honestly not such important people anyways. Now you know where administrator fees go at a public university! They had an edge in their… Continue reading Smarmy in the interview
I feel a little unreasonably proud at the moment. I really wasn't expecting to, because this is simply not a story I think I would click on and bother to read even though I'm the one who wrote it: I was assigned to write this story. When stories like this pop up, I just think:… Continue reading My first article
My inbox was not empty ... I had almost everyone respond to my requests for interviews. So I spoke with five people on the phone yesterday, sometimes back to back. The longest interview was 50 minutes. Since I am writing about a journal paper, that like I said seems quite easy to sensationalize, I can't… Continue reading Working on my first article
I was apprehensive, but I liked it. I met my editor and the rest of the science team. There were five stories that I "pitched" to my editor, and she was really nice about it. She didn't immediately toss them out the window. Instead, we "workshopped" them, meaning we talked about what kind of information… Continue reading First day at WIRED Science
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