INTERVIEWS
for Public Culture and Public Books [contributor page]
“Hanna Zeavin on the Power of Teletherapy and History of Technology,” Public Books (July 7, 2022)
“Meghan O’Gieblyn on God, Machines, and Intelligence,” Public Books (June 15, 2021)
“Ashanté Reese on Food Geographies and Food Justice,” Public Books (June 4, 2021)
“Donna M. Riley on Engineering, Ethics, and Social Justice,” Public Books (February 24, 2020)
“T.L. Taylor on Gamergate, Live-streaming, and E-Sports,” Public Books (February 27, 2019)
“Siva Vaidhyanathan on Facebook and Other “Antisocial” Media,” Public Books (October 12, 2018)
"Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things," Public Books (April 24, 2017)
“Interview of Peter Galison,” Public Culture 26.1 (Winter 2014): 79-100
“The Confidence Economy: An Interview with T.J. Jackson Lears,” Public Books (May 7, 2013)
for The Believer [contributor page]
“Object: Glass Tile,” The Believer 21 (Spring 2024): 88
“Micro-interview of Peter Galison: Historian, Philosopher, Filmmaker,” The Believer 9 (June 2011): 20, 31, 48, 52, 55
“Interview of Rebecca Solnit: Nature Writer, Environmental Activist, Art Historian,” The Believer 7 (September 2009): 43-49
“Interview of Michael Pollan, Environmental Journalist and Agro-Food Writer,” The Believer 5 (April 2007): 63-71 [in full here]
“Interview of Arnold Davidson: Conceptual Historian, Philosopher of Science, Scholar of Monsters, Sex, and Ontology,” The Believer 4 (May 2006): 66-73
“Interview of Marjorie Grene, Living Philosophical Legend,” The Believer 3 (March 2005): 65-74
at The World’s Fair
Author-Meets-Blogger: a series of 17 interviews with authors in environmental history and STS
SCHOLARSHIP-RELATED PIECES
“Decolonizing the GMO Debate,” The Counter (December 16, 2021)
“The Internet is Railroads,” Fast Company (October 9, 2021), with Jenn Rossmann
“Your Food Isn’t ‘Natural’ and It Never Will Be,” Wired (October 8, 2020) [and in Japanese, May 21, 2021]
“The Great Electric Sugar Con,” PBS American Experience (January 24, 2020)
“Why Do Visions of Farming’s Future Never Involve Farmers?,” Slate (June 20, 2019)
Three essays for the Lehigh Valley's Food in the Public Square NEH Project:
"Food Justice and Flood Zones" (October 24, 2016)
"Forests and Trees, Food Policies and Individuals" (May 14, 2016)
"Food as a Means Too, Not Just an End" (April 2, 2016)
“Is environmentalism best pursued through technocratic means?" [No, the answer was no] Aeon Conversations (June 10, 2015)
"Should the FDA Define ‘Natural’?” New York Times (November 10, 2014)
“All Praise the Civics of Food Hubs” Civil Eats (September 7, 2012)
“What Bean-Counting ‘Contrarians’ Miss about the Local Food Movement,” Grist Magazine (April 14, 2011)
“Why Blog the History of Science?” History of Science Newsletter (October 2008): 3-5
“B.R. Cohen’s Days at the Museum”: a five-part series at McSweeney's in 2009 (and then the last was in 2013)
“B.R. Cohen’s Annals of Science”: a 13-part series at McSweeney's from 2003-2007
I co-authored The World’s Fair at scienceblogs.com with David Ng (University of British Columbia) from 2006 through 2009. The site itself no longer hosts the full catalog of posts from that time but when it did, oh there were tons. Here are two other areas in addition to that catalog, as examples of what dead links look like:
Food and Agriculture Posts: a subset at the World’s Fair of 50+ posts on industrial agriculture & alternatives
Cannonball Epistemology: a 14-part series about the intersection of visual evidence, objectivity, and truth
NEITHER OF THE ABOVE
Various Breads and Butters, the world-beating podcast with Simon Tonev, Michelle Polton-Simon, and a slew of interns (iTunes; Twitter)
at McSweeney’s
The full author page at McSweeney’s and a selection of some highlights at the site:
Muscle and Flow (for L. Weschler’s Convergences series)
Important Dates in Machiavelli’s Life
Lists page editor at the McSweeney’s site from 2004-2007, helping put together Mountain Man Dance Moves (2006).
“Borges Was A Webelo” was not short-listed for the Pushcart Prize, but might have been. It appears in The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (2008).
Contributions to The Future Dictionary of America (2004) and Issues #35 (2010) and #39 (2011) of the Quarterly. Both stories—from 35 and 39— appear in Dear McSweeney’s (2021).
at Public Books
“This Morning Was a Poem: On and Near Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby”
at The Morning News
“Trust Me”
“Nest”
at The Science Creative Quarterly
“A Young Venn Heads to the Diagram Convention”
“Bisphenol-A: The One-Act Play”
"Why Some People Make The Wrong Decision And Others Don’t: An Assessment Of Arithmetic And Geometric Projections Of The Friday-Sunday Divide Beyond The Mehspair Chasm With P-Values, Χ2, And Licorice"
at The Education of Oronte Churm
“Too Much Culture But Not Enough to See”
at Boing Boing
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2019 Final Ranking
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2017 survey and Final 2017 Ranking
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2016 survey and Final 2016 Ranking
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2015 survey and Final 2015 Ranking
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2014 survey and Final 2014 Ranking
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2013
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2012
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2010
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2007 (at The World’s Fair)
The Halloween Candy Hierarchy, 2006 (at The World’s Fair)