Writing
Selected Commentaries and Articles
The Breathtaking Beauty of Our Planet's Destruction
Foreign Policy, September/October 2016
Frankenstein and the Problem with "Playing God"
Slate, January 2017
Should We Engineer Future Humans?
New America Weekly, December 2015
What Experiments to Block out the Sun Can’t Tell Us
Slate, January 2016
The Race to Preserve Disappearing Digital Artifacts
The Boston Globe, May 2015
Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents
The New York Times, September 2009
The US and Cuba: Reflections on Waiting
The Boston Globe, December 2014
An Emerging Threat to State Innovation
The Boston Globe, April 2015
Why We Were Not Better Prepared for an Ebola Outbreak
The Boston Globe, November 2014
The New York Times’ Book of Mathematics
(Contributor). Published 2013
The New York Times, December 2008
Microbes Eat Away at Pieces of History
The New York Times, June 2008
The Other Global Warming: A Cosmic View of the Planet’s Energy Crisis
The Boston Globe, January 2009
Where War Once Raged, Nature Now Prevails: A Sampan Tour on the Mekong River
The Boston Globe, December 2006
$1 Million to Inventor of a Tracker for ALS
The New York Times, February 2011
Block Island Embraces Offshore Wind Farm
The Boston Globe, October 2008
The Christian Science Monitor, July 2007
Countries Make Push to Increase Eye Donors
The New York Times, July 2008
DNA from Ancient Coral Unlocks Climate Clues
The Boston Globe, December 2008
Contests Increasingly a Top Draw for Innovators
The Boston Globe, November 2009
Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest
The New York Times, July 2008
Why Can’t a Woman Man the Grill?
The Christian Science Monitor, June 2007
Sushi and Global Trade: A Review of The Sushi Economy
The Christian Science Monitor, June 2007
A Path Toward a STEM Teacher Corps
For the President of the United States, April 2013
On behalf of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, 2010