For inquiries about speaking engagements:
National Public Radio/TED Radio Hour
June 2023
The Progress Network Podcast
December 2022
CBS News
July 2020
CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria
February 2020
National Public Radio’s Living on Earth
March 2020
National Public Radio’s On Point
September 2019
MSNBC’s Morning Joe
August 2019
The Economist
December 2019
Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara
September 2021
MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
April 2020
National Public Radio’s 1A
April and May 2020
New York Times Book Review Podcast
September 2019
KQED Forum
August 2019
Arianna Huffington
August 2019
Morning Brew
November 2019
The European Magazine
October 2019
Do you want to be an AI ghost?
The Washington Post, June 2023
A better kind of social media is possible — if we want it
The Washington Post, March 2023
Lies spread faster than the truth. Can communities change that?
The Boston Globe, November 2022
Why We Still Need Climate Optimism
The Washington Post, September 2019
Frankenstein and the Problem with "Playing God"
Slate, January 2017
Should We Engineer Future Humans?
New America Weekly, December 2015
The Race to Preserve Disappearing Digital Artifacts
The Boston Globe, May 2015
The US and Cuba: Reflections on Waiting
The Boston Globe, December 2014
Why We Were Not Better Prepared for an Ebola Outbreak
The Boston Globe, November 2014
The Queen of the Rubik’s Cube
The New York Times, December 2008
The Other Global Warming: A Cosmic View of the Planet’s Energy Crisis
The Boston Globe, January 2009
Block Island Embraces Offshore Wind Farm
The Boston Globe, October 2008
Countries Make Push to Increase Eye Donors
The New York Times, July 2008
Contests Increasingly a Top Draw for Innovators
The Boston Globe, November 2009
What a tiger at the National Zoo can teach us about the future of wild sex
The Washington Post, April 2023
Are you for real? The most urgent question with ChatGPT
The Boston Globe, January 2023
The Heirloom
Grist, September 2019
How Your Obsession With Short-Term Results Can Hurt You in the Long Run
Time, August 2019
The Breathtaking Beauty of Our Planet's Destruction
Foreign Policy, September/October 2016
What Experiments to Block out the Sun Can’t Tell Us
Slate, January 2016
Finding Order in the Apparent Chaos of Currents
The New York Times, September 2009
An Emerging Threat to State Innovation
The Boston Globe, April 2015
The New York Times’ Book of Mathematics
(Contributor). Published 2013
Microbes Eat Away at Pieces of History
The New York Times, June 2008
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
The Politics of Puppetry
The Christian Science Monitor, July 2007
DNA from Ancient Coral Unlocks Climate Clues
The Boston Globe, December 2008
Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest
The New York Times, July 2008