A few years ago, inquiring journalists began writing about the deception behind Baby Einstein videos, which promised to make toddlers smarter. Not only were the videos of no educational value, they could be harmful; the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that children under the age of two should ...
A few weeks ago I received an email from Marshal Zeringue, who runs several literary blogs including one that’s called “The Page 99 Test.” Its title comes from Ford Madox Ford, who once advised, “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will ...
Columbia University has suspended its environmental journalism program. Not because the world needs fewer journalists who are schooled in environmental sciences. Actually, the world needs ...
Because you can never get enough…
—Grist (Interview by Jonathan Hiskes)
—The Economist (A review)
—SeattlePI.com (Story by Joel Connelly)
—Zocalo Public Square (Interview)
A devastatingly great story in today’s NYT about Allegheny Energy installing scrubbers at a coal plant to reduce carbon emissions. The problem, however, is that the scrubbing ...
—CBC Dispatches (Interview by ...
—San Francisco Chronicle (Review by Adam Lashinsky)
—Tech Ticker (Yahoo!Finance interview with Aaron Task)
—TakePart.com (Question-and-answer interview by Adriana Dunn)
—CNAS.org (Review by Christine Parthemore at the Center for a New American Security)
—Approval Matrix (New York Magazine)
—KERA-FM (NPR station in Dallas-Fort Worth)
—The Business Insider
That’s the headline over a wonderful story Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote for e360, the webzine published by Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Rosenthal, who covers environmental issues ...
Warning: Updates about Crude World ahead. Proceed at your own risk.
The World, which is the great radio program co-produced by WGBH, PRI and the BBC, has aired an interview with me. They made me sound a lot sharper than I was in the studio. Thank you, wonderful people at The World, especially Jeb Sharp, ...
