for The Atlantic, i make the argument that we should be funding our urban public pools -- which have declined over the last half-century -- as climate infrastructure. (this includes what i am pretty sure is the highland park pool's atlantic debut.) theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Today in Heatmap News I explain why renewables developers and climate advocates should take public fears about wildlife and environment impacts seriously — using our own polling 🌞 heatmap.news/climate/renewa…

"The true revelation here isn’t that these men are especially conniving or even cunning; it’s that they are boring and more likely to regurgitate Fox News talking points than offer genuine insight." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

“Our infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Most of the common ways of dying in the U.S. involve illness. But cars are “a danger we’ve opted into,” Sarah Laskow writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “They kill so many people because so many people want to use them.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

For The Atlantic I wrote about state-run home insurers as comforting fictions and our collective state of living in housing fantasy-land. In other words I wrote about unpriced climate risk in the housing market. There's... a lot of it. Gift link: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Herbert Hoover convened the committee that gave America the idea of stop on red, go on green. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Most of the common ways of dying in the U.S. involve illness. But cars are “a danger we’ve opted into,” Sarah Laskow writes in Time-Travel Thursdays. “They kill so many people because so many people want to use them.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Wastewater monitoring was so useful for COVID-19, some places are now using it to track drug use. But many researchers and public-health officials worry that such monitoring could be used against the people it’s intended to help. Helen Ouyang reports: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The effort to save Hakai Magazine.com is fully underway. So far, we've lined up commitments worth about half of what we need to keep publishing. Ideally, we want one or two more large foundations or donations to give us a solid floor before we throw the doors to reader donations.

It’s official! Very excited to be starting a new role at The Atlantic later this month. And I can’t thank my STAT colleagues enough for the past six years.

I am thrilled to share that I will be a staff writer at The Atlantic starting in mid- September, covering my favorite topic: “the mind, in all its complexity” 🧠

It's a dream to join a team of writers I have so long admired from afar!

I am very excited about this!

HUGE. I am so excited to get to work with this incredible group.