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LATEST ARTICLES ( 84 )

• New Podcast ‘Ransom’ Investigates Missing 12-year-old Boy and Gambling Addiction

  

  Just launched a new podcast Ransom, you can listen and get links to subscribe at https://ransompodcast.com or listen to the first episode here:On September 12th... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Latest on Covid Origins

  

  A recent FOIA request by Right To Know’s Emily Kopp yielded new information about Project Defuse, a DARPA grant proposal from 2018 to study bat-borne... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2024 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why is Everyone Talking About the ‘Glutide’ Drugs as a Treatment for Obesity?

  

  Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy)  is part of a class of drugs that mimic the action of the peptide GLP-1, a hormone that’s secreted from the small intestine in... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2023 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Tips and Tricks for Public Records Requests from IRE 2022

  

  Recently, KSL paid for me to attend the 2022 Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Denver.The conference was held at the Gaylord Rocky Convention... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2022 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Will New Antivirals Bring Us into a New Phase of Covid Risk-mitigation and...

  

  As I lay on my couch, shirtless and cold but sweating from my first Covid booster shot, I got a push notification about a Wired article: New Covid Drugs Are Her... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Check out My New Podcast!

  

  On Tuesday I launched a new podcast, Algorithm!Algorithm is about a journalist who created an algorithm to use homicide data to try to identify serial killers. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Century in a Day

  I’m momentarily fascinated by the notion of copyrights and the public domain. The freedom of information and availabilty of it.A quick google search brought me... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Make Noise – Books on Podcasting and Storytelling

  

  This post is a follow-up to the post Gimlet’s unofficial reading list for making good podcastsJust got finished Make Noise by Eric Nuzum, the podcast developer... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Introductory Journalism Textbooks from the Top 5 Undergraduate Journalism...

  

  As I’m now working at an NPR station, but I was never formally trained in journalism, I decided to look up what I missed out on. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• JAMA Launches Podcast App: What’s the Future of Medical Education?

  

  The Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, is launching a podcast app designed to help doctors to listen to educational content and take quizzes... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• First Public Radio Feature

  

  A little over two months ago, I drove all the way from Northern Virginia to Garden City Kansas to start a job as a reporter at High Plains Public Radio. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• I Am a Sad Sack of Anxious Genes

  

  They say the best pilots in times of peace, aren’t the best as in times of war. It’s called the Yerkes-Dodson law — people function optimally at a certain... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• “Yo Dawg, I Herd You Like Podcasts, So I Put Podcasts in Your Podcast So You...

  I made a podcasts about podcasts, but it’s not like those other podcasts about podcasts.Selects, is a show for people looking to listen to something new that... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Commotio Cordis – How Hits to the Chest Turn Deadly

  

  (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)On Saturday, Nats batter Adrian Sanchez turned in towards a pitch as he attempted to bunt. But the 96-mph pitch headed straight for him,... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• I Don’t Believe in Free Will

  

  Just listened to Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky talk about free will on Sam Harris’s podcast. Neither of them believe in it, and neither do I. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• “Reince is a Fucking Paranoid Schizophrenic…” Says Scaramucci, but What is...

  

  Etymologically, schizophrenia comes from Greek skhizein and phren mind, so literally means split mind, and in colloquial speech, the term ‘schizophrenic,’ is... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Three Ways to Get a Job in Podcasting Or Radio

  

  From talking to people in podcasts and radio, and reading people’s stories it seems like there are three ways to get jobs: applying to them, making something... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Hosting This Week’s “sciparty” on Twitter in 30 Minutes

  Should’ve wrote about this earlier, but just thinking about it now. I’m hosting this week’s sciparty on twitter, starting at 1pm EST, so if there are any... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The “knowing-speaking Gap” and the Abuse of Neuroscientific Authority

  

  The knowing-speaking gapLast night I went to taping of live Tech podcast that featured non-fiction author Douglas Rushkoff as a guest. (I’ll try to link to it... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Early Metal Exposure Linked to Autism Using Baby Teeth

  

  Exposure to toxic metals, like lead, have been linked to intellectual disability, and language, and behavioral problems, but the results of studies looking at... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE