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Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller on animal-microbe partnerships.

Washington, DC
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Joined January 2009
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    5 Oct 2016

    Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. Read the fucking article.

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    16 minutes ago

    Opinion: I Am Part Of The Resistance Inside The New York Times Opinion Desk

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    9 hours ago

    THREAD: I just got an update from one of the 's curators, Débora Pires, on the current status of the collections. Here's what we know has been lost, what we know has been saved, and what's still unknown. 1/

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    3 hours ago

    "There are bright spots...effective deregulation, historic tax reform...and more. But these successes have come despite—not because of—the president..." The op-ed is extraordinary proof that some want to benefit from racism without accepting its stigma.

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Now just ONE WEEK away from the launch of THE DINOSAUR ARTIST. It's *such* a good book, and pre-ordering makes a huge difference to authors.

    We're just two weeks from the publication of 's THE DINOSAUR ARTIST and I'm here to tell you that it's the best piece of non-fiction I've read this year. This book is a goddamn masterpiece and I really think you should pre-order it.
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    10 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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    7 hours ago

    In order to feed itself, the loggerhead shrike performs a routine equivalent to "shaking two legs of ham, or roughly one Chipotle burrito. In my mouth. With my neck. Eleven times a second." (We still don't know what Ed puts on his burritos)

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    8 hours ago

    Meant to tweet about this interview with sociologist Margaret Hagerman on her new book "White Kids." I swear it was like seeing the social scientist version of my piece on choosing a segregated school for my daughter.

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  9. 11 hours ago

    "These vigorous shakes cause the mouse’s body to accelerate around its neck at six g."

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    21 hours ago

    What an image in our story: Here's Ayanna Pressley's stepdaughter watching her mother claim victory and become the first black woman ever elected to Congress from Massachusetts.

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  11. 11 hours ago

    The loggerhead shrike is a hawk trapped in the body of a finch. It can kill relatively large prey by grabbing its victim by the neck and then shaking till the neck breaks

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  12. 12 hours ago

    I love the hypothesis that the first dolphin was a tail-walking hipster who begrudged all the other kids picking up her awesome new move

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  13. 12 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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  14. 22 hours ago

    This is such a good story on the myth of a "slow metabolism" (and a lot of other weight-related myths) by

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    Sep 4

    Re-upping 's piece on the staggering losses in Brazil's museum disaster: . If you've especially wondered what can happen to fossils in fires:

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    Sep 4

    This is the most interesting and enlightening piece on obesity and metabolism that I have ever read. Go with into the metabolic chamber.

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    Sep 4

    TWEETORIAL AHEAD: This summer, I had a rare opportunity to join an study and spend 23 hours sealed inside an 11-by-11.5-foot metabolic chamber... and I got a granular look at how metabolism works. A few takeaways:

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    Sep 4

    In the article, mentions 'holotypes' which is a word I was unfamiliar with until I started hanging around museum people. This essay by is one of my all time favourite pieces of writing and tells how holotypes come to be.

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    Sep 4

    “Other tragedies like this can happen any time in numerous museums, libraries, and archives in Brazil.” reports on what was lost in Brazil's museum fire—and why it could have been prevented:

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    Sep 4

    Please read on the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, and the precipice upon which we stand. America has been here before. The Supreme Court, during Redemption, enabled Jim Crow’s rise. We are on the verge of a Court that could inflict similar damage.

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    Sep 4

    Of all the heart-breaking details in this story, it's the one about the loss of recordings of indigenous languages hits me hardest, probably because of the way crushingly puts it: "entire tongues went up in flames"

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