a complete (ish) list of my bylines

reporting

physics & chemistry

• how to dodge the sonic weapon used by police (popular mechanics, 2020); winner of the 2021 science in society award
• the green, poisonous gas that lit up portland protests (future human, 2020)
• analyzing every second of the classic dial-up modem sound (popular mechanics, 2019)
• brainstorming the next generation of neuromorphic computing (photonics focus, 2021)
• what's in your water? new approaches to photonic biosensing detect contamination in water systems (photonics focus, 2020)
• the invisible battle for america's airwaves (popular mechanics, 2019)
• green-eyed lion eating the sun (popula, 2019)

infrastructure

• smart grid experiments in turkey and portugal help participants save on utilities (ieee spectrum, 2019)
• the industry reps pushing corporate interests in space (sludge, 2019)
• the volunteers blanketing cities with wireless internet (mit tech review, 2020)

robots & hardware

• this was once the most preposterous vehicle known to man (popular mechanics, 2021)
• paris firefighters used this remote-controlled robot to extinguish the Notre Dame blaze (ieee spectrum, 2019)
• construction robots learn to excavate by mimicking humans (ieee spectrum, 2019)
• the squishy robots that could save the world (popular mechanics, 2019)
• a new roadmap for advanced lead batteries (ieee spectrum, 2019)

math & software

• this designer found a brand new instance of the fibonacci sequence in artificial trees (popular mechanics, 2023)
• ibm's new ai tool parses a tidal wave of coronavirus research (ieee spectrum, 2020)
• why can't large language models stop being sexist? (vice, 2019)
• how china's state-sponsored social networks control misinformation--and dissent (ieee spectrum, 2018)

misc.

• the soil stripped bare: a twining history of slavery and kudzu in america's south (silica magazine, 2020)
• vegetables don't exist (popula, 2019)
• the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning (popula, 2018)

book reviews

• "ode to arctic permafrost"--a review of charlotte wrigley's earth ice bone blood (science magazine, 2023)
• "the specter of objectivity"-- a review of audra wolfe's freedom's laboratory (we are the mutants, 2018)
• "the body in space/trauma in the body"--a review of roxane gay's hunger (public seminar, 2017)

fiction

• superbloom (sci-fi short) (metaphorosis, 2021); finalist for the inaugural android press utopia science fiction award

technical writing

• the basics of lubricating bearings (machine design, 2021)
• dynamic image resizing with ruby and serverless framework (serverless.com, 2021) (ghost wrote this to see if i wanted to be a software writer) (i did not)
• hybrid manufacturing in the factory of the future (tribology and lubrication technologies, 2021)
• a gaming laptop with serious self-control (popular mechanics, 2021) (sponsored by nvidia)
• gear oils and drivetrain efficiency (tribology and lubrication technologies, 2020)
• how the human eye processes pixels (the verge, 2018) (sponsored by an 8k tv maker)