Journalism

As a journalist, I've reported and edited stories on a wide variety of scientific topics, such as:

+ Technology
+ Space
+ Archaeology
+ Paleontology
+ Health
+ Psychology
+ Nature
+ Climate & Environment

My reporting has incorporated multimedia elements such as photography, audio, and video to present science news to a national audience. I've also produced a number of features for magazines and digital publications, both local and national.

Outside of science, my reporting has also touched on education, history, business, books, and general human interest topics.

Here's a selection of my work:

Daily news

Quick note: Card stories are the short, visually-driven articles that I produced as a staff writer at Inverse. I describe them to my friends and family as "mini slideshows about science." They are best viewed on a phone or mobile device.

Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior — Inverse, February 2023

Ancient Egyptian "Funeral Home" Reveals Secrets of Embalming — Inverse, February 2023

The Ultimate Status Symbol for Danish Vikings? Beaver Fur — Study — Inverse, July 2022

Earthquake-detecting “Trash Bag” Balloons Could Tell Us the Secrets of Venus — Inverse, May 2023

Listen: Dolphins Scream to Each Other Over Human-Made Noise Pollution (card story) — Inverse, January 2023

Watch: Ingenious Hawks Learned to Thwart Their Prey's Greatest Defense (card story) — Inverse, August 2022

Orion Splashdown: Watch Artemis I's Final Moments in 11 Breathtaking Images (card story) — Inverse, December 2022

Gems, Coins, and Ancient Treasure: 10 Ghostly Shipwreck Discoveries from 2022 (card story) — Inverse, December 2022

Tonga Volcano Spewed Ash a Whopping 35 Miles Into the Air, Setting a New Record (card story) — Inverse, November 2022

Evergreen + enterprise stories

Quick note: If you're looking for columns and essays, click on the "essays" tab at the top of my site.

75 Years Ago, Milwaukee Experienced the Most Severe Earthquake in Wisconsin History — Milwaukee Magazine, May 2022

Life on Mars: A Scientist Ranks 10 Futuristic Depictions of Human Colonies (card story) -- Inverse, September 2021

Did This Small Michigan Town Trick People Into Thinking They Were Moving to Milwaukee? — Milwaukee Magazine, October 2021

The Cure for Eczema is Likely More than Skin Deep -- Discover, March 2020

There's More to Technophobia Than the Fear of Technology — Discover, October 2020

Planetary Alignment Didn't End the World in 1919. But One Professor Thought it Would — Discover, February 2021

Features

Meet the Meteorite Hunters -- Inverse, November 2022

How These Falcons Came Back From the Brink of Extinction in Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Magazine, August 2022

This Cannabis ‘Lite’ Exists in Legal Limbo and Is Being Sold to Eager Buyers — Milwaukee Magazine, January 2022

Profiles + Q&As

Meet the 24-Year-Old Who Drives NASA Rockets to the Launch Pad in a 6.5 Million Pound Crawler — Futurism, February 2022

The Founder of Sci Hub is Absolutely Unrepentant — Futurism, October 2021

How Well Do You Know Your Sense of Touch? -- Discover, March 2021

Editing