SUV Commercials Leverage The “Fuel Efficiency” Claim…It’s Just A Ploy 7 Dec 2010 | 12:24 pm

Best Workflow Tip 7 Dec 2010 | 11:30 am

My colleague and good friend Christopher Mims is one of the most efficient freelance journalists I know. In his first year officially freelancing he was writing for multiple publications and made a sa...

Generosity Makes Us Happier—And Might Also Make Us Healthier 28 Oct 2010 | 04:59 am

Last weekend at the PopTech conference in gorgeous Camden, ME I caught up with Liz Dunn, the University of British Columbia researcher who studies links between money and happiness.  Here is a bit fro...

SXSW Interactive 2011: Please Vote! 24 Aug 2010 | 10:28 am

After the success of last year’s brain-computer interface talk I decided to follow up again this year with another crazy-forward-looking scan of the digital landscape. http://bit.ly/b9wjdR OR  http://...

The Ignorance Of Canada In The U.S. 14 Jul 2010 | 05:48 am

Yesterday a friend sent me a link to the L.A. Times article re: the amazingly good health of Canada’s economy:  Canada’s economy can teach the U.S. a thing or two. An excerpt from the piece: “We did a...

What do I do, and where can you find me? 14 Mar 2009 | 03:44 am

I’m a freelance science journalist living in Brooklyn, NY. I write, edit and produce science stories for all media (audio, video and text). christie.nicholson@gmail.com 646-373-2478 on Twitter here. ...

Introducing Grand Unified Weekly, Episode 3 6 Dec 2008 | 04:35 am

The weekly science round up for the rest of us. As said by our producer, Christopher Mims: Grand Unified Weekly has landed at SlateV like a Megatherium brought down by a pack of Smilodons, and the wor...

The Monitor: Squids, Corpse Whales, Turbo Evolution; Smart Robots 15 May 2008 | 06:51 am

The Monitor (world premiere!) 17 Feb 2008 | 06:02 am

Introducing Scientific American’s new video series, “The Monitor.” A weekly rouundup of science news that doesn’t insult your intelligence or put you to sleep. In this episode: Safety of cloned beef, ...

More Egghead…Synthetic Biology. What’s That? Something you should know about… 6 Feb 2008 | 04:24 pm

SciAm editor David Biello de-mystifies the new science of man-made DNA. Click To Play