Selected Work

Model Village

99 Percent Invisible (Oct. 24, 2023)

 
 

Most Ambulances ‘Run Hot’ with Lights and Sirens Blaring. But That’s Starting to Change

STAT (July 7, 2023)

Eradicating Ableist Language Yields More-Accurate and More-Humane Journalism

The Open Notebook (June 27, 2023)

 
 

Scientists Froze, Unfroze and Transplanted Rat Kidneys — a ‘Historic’ Step for Organ Preservation

STAT (June 21, 2023)

Animals Are Dying in Droves. What Are They Telling Us?

The New Republic (May 3, 2023)

 
 

A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s

The New Yorker (Nov. 23, 2022)

The Double Life of an American Lake Monster

WIRED (Aug. 9, 2022)

 
 

They Were Sure Their High School Made Them Sick. Experts Disagreed.

The New York Times (Aug. 5, 2022)

These Birds Aren’t Lost. They’re Adapting.

The New York Times (April 7, 2022)

 
 

The Strange Quest to Save North America’s Most Elusive Oak Tree

The New Republic (Dec. 20, 2021)

For Mobile, Alabama’s Vaccinated Minority,

“It is a Spiritual Crisis”

The New Republic (Oct. 21, 2021)

 
 

Barring Bedside Visitors from ICU Deprives Patients of the Best Care

STAT (July 28, 2021)

Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin

The Atlantic (July 12, 2021)

 
 

Maggot Evangelists Have a Simple Challenge to Overcome

The Atlantic (June. 2, 2021)

How Dementia Locks People Inside Pain

The Atlantic (Feb. 11, 2021)

 
 

It Spied on Soviet Atomic Bombs. Now It’s Solving Ecological Mysteries.

The New York Times (Jan. 5, 2021)

Stewing Over Ratatouille

We’ll Have To Pass (Jan. 5, 2021)

 
 

An Elixir From the French Alps,

Frozen in Time

The New York Times (Dec. 17, 2020)

Ohio’s Whitest Home Newspaper

CJR (Sept. 28, 2020)

 
 

Covid Is a Perfect Storm for ICU Delirium

The Atlantic (May 5, 2020)

How the Aoudad Invaded Texas

The Atlantic (January 13, 2020)

 
 

This Carnivorous Plant Invaded New York.

That May Be Its Only Hope.

The New York Times (Aug. 13, 2019)