The Internet Archive -- Bricks and Mortar Version
On the physical nature of data and the culture of preservation
Scientific American / April 2016
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On the physical nature of data and the culture of preservation
Scientific American / April 2016
To restore the region's salt marshes, scientists and engineers need to get their hands on huge quantities of the messy stuff
Scientific American / March 2016
The struggle to make sense of the most constant thing in the universe
Scientific American / March 2016
Why look at a photograph? And why look again?
Mint / January 2016
The California Drought: Glossary of a drought and making of a disaster - Excerpt from Guernica
The Wire / July 2015
The California Drought: Language of water rights and entitlement
Guernica Magazine / July 2015
The California drought: Chronicles and myth-busting
Down to Earth / May 2015
Mobile clinics are a great alternative for primary healthcare
Slate / May 2015
A photo-essay around the edges of worship
Killing the Buddha / March 2015
Photos on dissent
Guernica Magazine / August 2015
The ideas and history behind the world's first hard disk drive
Nautilus / February 2015
Making sense of the data that we record in our machines and in our heads
Nautilus / February 2015
Re-imagining the bee as a machine
The Atlantic - Technology / January 2015
The science behind brain games: separating fact from fiction
The Atlantic - Health / December 2014
Unpacking the myth behind the Guns Save Lives campaign
Aeon Magazine / August 2014
Exploring the cycle of evil in gun violence
Guernica Magazine / October 2014
Narrative on the science, sociology and 20-year-old controversy behind Internet addiction
The Caravan / November 2013
How crowdsourcing and technology influence photojournalism
Nieman Reports / March 2010
Primer on europium, the rare earth metal in CFLs
Down to Earth / November 2014
Analysis of China's broadband internet policy and its impacts
Infochange Agenda / NetPehchaan / February 2015
Essay on the future homes and metaphors for our data
Yahoo! Originals / November 2014
Op-ed on scientific and social issues surrounding Internet addiction
Scientific American - Mind / May 2014
On the idea of tribute - Thanjavur dispatch
Killing the Buddha / March 2014
How a stable ore becomes an unstable value, and then a work of art
The Caravan / August 2009 / [Pdf , 3.05 MB]
Profile of an evolutionary biologist rebuilding Darwin's theoretical Tree of Life.
University of Chicago Magazine / July 2010
Analysis of India's vaccine production policy
Infochange Agenda / December 2009
Essay on the NYSE and the fall of Lehman, one year on.
Huffington Post / November 2009
Infographic on how mass spectrometry is used for DNA analysis
Wired / June 2009
Photoessay, New York subway system
Outlook / October 2009
Dispatch on crowdsourcing in global astronomical research
GlobalPost / May 2009
How languages rise, fall, and evolve
The Telegraph / June 2009
The cast of characters lobbying for patent reform
Wired / April 2009
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