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Senior Editor at , overseeing the science, tech, and health sections; previously Deputy Editor at ; email: ross[at]theatlantic[dot]com

Washington, DC
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Nov 2017

    China may make first contact (with 👽 ) before America—I went to see its new alien-hunting dish to find out what that would mean. My story for our December issue:

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    13 hours ago

    Excited to share that What Future 2018, a collection of the year's best nonfiction about the future co-edited by me and , is available for preorder from

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  3. 5 hours ago

    "If the price of defending democracy and rule of law is to destroy both, the price is too high." weighs in

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  4. 6 hours ago

    The anonymous NYT op-ed is a cowardly act in violation of its author's oath to uphold the constitution:

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    14 hours ago

    Wild dolphins don’t tail-walk, but Billie learned the trick from captive dolphins during a 2-week stint as a rescued animal. She later passed the silly move on to other wild dolphins when she was released.

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    Sep 4

    So much was lost in Brazil's devastating museum fire--irreplaceable fossils, now-fully-dead languages, artifacts, careers, knowledge. It's hard to put the loss into words, but I tried:

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  7. Sep 4

    Today, launches a brand new Ideas section, edited by the fantastic — read 's mission statement for the section here:

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    Sep 3

    This is so cool.

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  9. Sep 2

    Europe’s 18th century witch hunts were really a competition among Catholics and Protestants “to advertise their superior ability to protect citizens against worldly manifestations of Satan’s evil”

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  10. Sep 2

    Publishing is brutal (oh and wildlife conservation is too)

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    Aug 31

    NASA made some news last night, and not everyone is thrilled:

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    Aug 31

    In a few weeks, I'll be starting a new assistant-editor role ! Here's my first book review:

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    Aug 30

    PSA: is hiring a senior editor to help run our coverage of politics, domestic policy, campaigns, the White House, and Congress. This is an amazing job on a killer team. Apply!

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  14. Aug 29

    Trump is right: Outlets that lean right *do* appear less in Google results. But there's a reason for that

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  15. Aug 28

    Important update on the world's most important story by

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    Aug 26

    This week's thread of things I read and loved/felt compelled by: The story of the LARGE FISHING CATS (!) of Sri Lanka and the weird, perhaps unanswerable question of whether our cities are making animals smarter:

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  17. Aug 26

    It’s a pleasure to publish an excerpt from The Tangled Tree, a fabulous new book written by , whose larger body of work is a North Star for all that we do in ’s science section

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  18. Aug 24

    Amazing story here 👇🏻

    Napoleon Chagnon tried to get around Yanomami naming taboos to collect geneologies, and they tricked him in a pretty hilarious fashion
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    Aug 24

    "Are Cities Making Animals Smarter?" (, )

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  20. Aug 24

    Head over heels for this story by about all the tiny organisms that live in FOG—also, collecting fog droplets in the Namib desert sounds like a lot of fun:

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    Aug 23

    Famous modernist homes get a horrifying Thomas Kinkade makeover

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