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My Next Book: The Remedy 22 May 2013 | 04:48 am
Just a quick note about my next book, The Remedy, which will be out in early 2014, published by Penguin/Gotham. It’s a tremendously exciting true story that takes place in the last decades of the 19th...
Some News 2 Apr 2013 | 12:30 am
Since I left WIRED in January, everybody’s been asking me: What’s next? Today, finally, I can start answering that question. I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining two amazing organizations. As of ...
Finding the upside of failed clinical trials 2 Dec 2011 | 10:47 am
Forbes reported that Astra Zeneca sponsored a drug trial where their lipid-lowering drug, Crestor, went head-to-head with Pfizer’s Lipitor, a strange battle from the start since many considered Lipito...
Miracle berries: the artificial sweetener that never was 6 Oct 2011 | 02:41 am
The small, red berries of the _Richadella dulcifica_ plant are not very sweet. In fact, miraculin, the main chemical found in the berry’s flesh tastes like, well, nothing. But after eating these berri...
The incredibly shrinking sensor 1 Oct 2011 | 08:39 am
Even if you only got a whiff of the product demo sessions at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, you noticed: sensors are getting smaller, cheaper, and more closely integrated into t...
Sharing data on social media 27 Sep 2011 | 02:08 pm
People use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media sites as channels for self-expression. But whether updating or uploading, people are telling their social stories with only two tools: text and imag...
Storm Surge 6 Sep 2011 | 06:43 pm
The idea that climate change is linked to the spread of a disease is not new. Some bacteria and viruses, after all, piggyback on an animal or insect, and the infectious advance depends on the host’s r...
The value of the meet-up 6 Sep 2011 | 06:41 pm
The brilliance of Wikipedia is that anyone, at any time, can contribute to the project, and in doing so, the collective knowledge of the world’s largest encyclopedia keeps improving and expanding. In ...
That little bit of exercise 17 Aug 2011 | 01:23 am
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Madness and greatness 17 Aug 2011 | 01:23 am
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