If you prefer your article lists chronological and exhaustive, this is the page for you!

2023:

“An Island Utopia Where Nobody Dies and the Living Is Easy,” The New York Times Book Review, 5/1/23

“Eight Books That Will Take You Somewhere New,” The Atlantic, 3/20/23

“Big Swiss,” The New Yorker, 3/13/23

2022:

“Everything the Light Touches,” The New Yorker, 12/5/22

“Chip War,” The New Yorker, 11/14/22

“Too Many Pumpkins,” The New York Times for Kids, 10/30/22

“My Unlikely Connection to Steely Dan,” The New Yorker website, 10/12/22

“The Chaos Machine,” The New Yorker, 10/10/22

“The Best Books for a Broken Heart,” The Atlantic, 9/15/22

“Working Your First Summer Job,” The New York Times for Kids, 6/26/22

“Sleeping in the Woods,” The New York Times for Kids, 6/26/22

“Profoundly Out of Joint,” Astra Magazine, 6/22/22

“The Books You Missed When the World Shut Down,” The Atlantic, 6/15/22

“Post-Traumatic,” The New Yorker, 5/16/22

“Whole Earth,” The New Yorker, 4/18/22

“Civil Rights Queen,” The New Yorker, 3/21/22

“A Novel-in-Stories of Queerness and Corruption in Lagos,” The New York Times Book Review, 3/15/22

“Welcome to the Year of the Tiger,” The New York Times for Kids, 1/30/22

2021:

“The (Scientific!) Secrets of Sledding,” The New York Times for Kids, 12/26/21

“A Freedom Flowchart,” The New York Times for Kids, 12/26/21

“Finally! Kids Between 5 and 11 Can Get the Covid Vaccine,” The New York Times for Kids, 11/28/21

“The Ottomans,” The New Yorker, 11/15/21

“How Sour Candy Tortures Us,” The New York Times for Kids, 10/31/21

“In Dave Eggers’s New Novel, the Problem With Big Tech Is Us,” The New York Times Book Review, 10/5/21

“This Is Your Mind on Plants,” The New Yorker, 8/2/21

“A Guide to the Clouds,” The New York Times for Kids, 7/25/21

“Geniuses at War,” The New Yorker, 6/28/21

“Projections,” The New Yorker, 6/21/21

“The Haunting of Alma Fielding,” The New Yorker, 5/31/21

“Controlling Chaos: A Lockdown Listicle,” Laid Off NYC, 5/6/21

“Can This Two-Week Program Make You a Better Reader—And Do You Want It To?,” Electric Literature, 4/22/21

“The Disordered Cosmos,” The New Yorker, 3/29/21

“It’s Just a Pinch!” The New York Times for Kids, 3/28/21

“Four Debut Novels Follow Strivers and Survivors,” The New York Times Book Review, 3/2/21

“In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge,” The New York Times Book Review, 2/2/21

2020:

“We Keep the Dead Close,” The New Yorker, 11/30/20

“Metazoa,” The New Yorker, 11/23/20

“Analogia,” The New Yorker, 10/19/20

“Lessons in Discomfort,” Guernica, 10/16/20

The Super Rooster: The Orphan Master’s Son vs. The Good Lord Bird, 10/14/20

“Ellis Island,” The New Yorker, 9/28/20

“Masks Through History,” The New York Times for Kids, 8/30/20

“The Rush for a Vaccine,” The New York Times for Kids, 5/31/20

“Cats? Dogs? Who Wins?” The New York Times for Kids, 3/29/20

“They Love Us Soooo Much,” The New York Times for Kids, 3/29/20

“Stories of the Sahara,” Bookforum, 3/24/20

“Why I Hide from Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help,” Literary Hub, 2/21/20

2019:

“Your Body, Explained,” The New York Times for Kids, 12/29/19

“What’s Going On in Your Head,” The New York Times for Kids, 12/29/19

“‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer Delivers Fresh Horrors,” The New York Times Book Review, 12/3/19

“A Charred, Juicy, Meaty Burger, Made of Plants,” The New York Times for Kids, 11/24/19

“The Reddit Effect,” The New York Times Magazine, 11/17/19

“So Many Phobias,” The New York Times for Kids, 10/27/19

“New Dystopian Novels That Thrill and Horrify,” The New York Times Book Review, 9/5/19

“An Artist Finds the Life Lessons of Seaweed,” Bay Nature, 8/29/19

“The Cameras Are Watching, and They Know Who You Are,” The New York Times for Kids, 8/25/19

“Do what you love (just not for money)“, The Believer, June/July 2019

“The Rising Tide Will Catch Us All Eventually,” Bay Nature, 6/10/19

“It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Immunity!” The New York Times for Kids, 4/28/19

“Silly Science for the Win,” The New York Times for Kids, 3/31/19

The 2019 Tournament of Books: Milkman vs. The Italian Teacher, 3/8/19

“A 1,000-Mile Race for Very Good Sled Dogs,” The New York Times for Kids, 2/24/19

“An Ecopoetry Collection that ‘Articulates Reality’ for California Nature-Lovers,” Bay Nature, 2/12/19

“Can’t get enough: A review of ‘Adèle,’ by Leila Slimani,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/17/19

2018:

“Explosions, Duct Tape and Fire-Extinguisher Jet Packs: ‘MythBusters Jr.,'” The New York Times for Kids, 12/30/18

“For Beaver Believers, Salvation Lies in a Once-Reviled Rodent,” Bay Nature, 12/7/18

“How Scientists Made the New Flu Shot,” The New York Times for Kids, 11/25/18

“The Fraught Business of Identity: Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know,” The Rumpus, 11/14/18

“Welcome to the Body Farm,” The New York Times for Kids, 10/28/18

“A Geologist Argues Against ‘Time Denial,’” Bay Nature, 10/12/18

“Record-Breaking Wildfires,” The New York Times for Kids, 9/30/18

“Food Fiiiiight!,” The New York Times for Kids, 8/26/18

“‘A River of Stars,’ by Vanessa Hua,” San Francisco Chronicle, 8/10/18

“A Worldwide Tour of Water Parks,” The New York Times for Kids, 7/29/18

“The Skateboarding Superstar,” The New York Times for Kids, 6/24/18

“Ooooh! Ahhhh! The Science of Fireworks,” The New York Times for Kids, 6/24/18

“‘There There’ by Tommy Orange,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/6/18

“6 Destination Races,” The New York Times, 6/3/18

“Book Review: Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction,” Fremontia, May 2018 (p. 30)

“How A Hollywood Trainer Turns Animals Into Actors,” The New York Times for Kids, 4/29/18

“‘Circe’ Shows Us How Storytelling Is Power—And How That Power Can Be Seized,” Electric Literature, 4/16/18

“What Truth?: Jonathan Miles’s Anatomy of a Miracle,” LA Review of Books, 3/29/18

“Portrait, Not Polemic: Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead,” The Rumpus, 3/28/18

“A Source of Life: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas,” The Rumpus, 2/14/18

“Isolation, Intimacy, and Immortality in ‘Eternal Life’ and ‘How to Stop Time,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2/10/18

“‘Daphne,’ by Will Boast,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2/9/18

“Don’t Get Lost in the Luge,” The New York Times for Kids, 1/28/18

“‘The Immortalists,’ by Chloe Benjamin,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1/19/18

2017:

“CRISPR Will Change the World,” The New York Times for Kids, 11/19/17

“Behind the Scenes as NASA Tests the Most Powerful Rocket Ever,” WIRED, December 2017 (in the feature well!)

“Mothers and Marginalization: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby,” The Rumpus, 10/17/17

“‘The Woman Who Smashed Codes,’ by Jason Fagone,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10/6/17

“‘Sourdough,’ by Robin Sloan,” San Francisco Chronicle, 9/7/17

“What’s Inside a Magical (and Flammable) Grease-Lifting Cleaner,” WIRED, 8/30/17

“‘Caesar’s Last Breath,’ by Sam Kean,” San Francisco Chronicle, 7/28/17

“What’s Inside Triple-Action Mace? Chili Peppers and UV Dye,” WIRED, 7/1/17

“‘Bleaker House,’ by Nell Stevens,” San Francisco Chronicle, 5/25/17 (pdf)

“Watch SpaceX Sacrifice a Falcon 9 in the Name of Better Internet,” WIRED, 5/15/17

“Making the Best Paper Airplane, Thanks to NASA,” The New York Times for Kids, 5/14/17

“SpaceX Launches a Super-Secret Payload for the Feds,” WIRED, 5/1/17

“Watch NASA Launch 38 Itty Bitty Satellites to the ISS,” WIRED, 4/18/17

“Watch SpaceX Launch Its First Truly Reusable Rocket,” WIRED, 3/30/17

“How Lithium-Ion Batteries Turn Into Skin-Searing Firebombs,” WIRED, 3/15/17

“More Money, More Problems for the Commercial Space Launch Biz,” WIRED, 2/8/17

“Think States Alone Can’t Handle Sea Level Rise? Watch California,” WIRED, 2/2/17

2016:

“From Crispr to Zika, Here Are 2016’s Biggest Biology Stories,” WIRED, 12/29/16

“What’s Inside the Secret Recipe for Scotch Magic Tape,” WIRED, 12/22/16

“Bacteria, Methane, and Other Dangers Within Siberia’s Melting Permafrost,” WIRED, 12/21/16

“Watch a Resting Brain Light Up With Activity,” WIRED, 12/12/16

“Check Out the ExoMars Orbiter’s Beautiful First Pics,” WIRED, 11/30/16

“Social Science Is Busted. But the NIH Has a Plan that Could Fix It,” WIRED, 11/23/16

“Watch Live as the ESA’s Probe Lands on the Red Planet,” WIRED, 10/18/16

“Are Aliens Trying to Contact You? Use This Handy Scale,” WIRED, 10/14/16

“Meet the Heroes Fueling the New American Space Boom,” WIRED, 10/14/16

“Trump’s Dr. Oz Appearance Has Nothing To Do With Health,” WIRED, 9/15/16

“A Pinch of Eco-Goodness: A Guide to Sustainable Salts,” Sierra, November/December 2016

“Hillary Clinton Has Pneumonia, and Health-Wise It’s No Big Deal,” WIRED, 9/12/16

“The Greening of K–12 Cafeterias Across the U.S.,” Sierra, September/October 2016

“It’s Too Late to Save the Glaciers, but Scientists Are Saving Some Pieces in an Antarctic Vault,” WIRED, 9/9/16

“Spraying Mosquitoes by Plane Ain’t Perfect, But It’s the Best We’ve Got for Zika,” WIRED, 9/5/16

“It’s Alive: A Guide to Some of the Best Fermented Food and Drink on the Market,” Sierra, September/October 2016

“How the Blue Cut Blaze Spawns Those Insane Firenadoes,” WIRED, 8/19/16

“The Deaths of 9 Retired Research Chimps Ignite a Biology Feud,” WIRED, 8/18/16

“How Climate Change Will Redraw Louisiana’s Flood Maps,” WIRED, 8/17/16

“Why It’s So Hard to Tell If a Country Is Really Rid of Polio,” WIRED, 8/16/16

“How Doctors in Florida Are Protecting Pregnant Women From Zika,” WIRED, 7/29/16

“The National Weather Service Overhauls Its Forecasts and Sets Off a Nerd Fight,” WIRED, 7/29/16

“A New Map of the Brain Redraws the Boundaries of Neuroscience,” WIRED, 7/20/16

“Know Your Meat—and Bugs. Introducing the Periodic Table of Protein,” WIRED, 7/19/16

“Neuroscientists Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds Good,” WIRED, 7/13/16

“How Olympians Choose Which Sports Supplements Are Worth It,” WIRED, 7/11/16

“Kids Are Master Manipulators. So Use Game Theory Against Them,” WIRED, 6/30/16

“It’ll Be Really Hard to Test for Doping at the Rio Olympics,” WIRED, 6/30/16

“That’s So Metal: You Won’t Believe How These Bacteria Get Around,” California, Summer 2016

“Raw Appeal: Which Sushi Fish to Eat—and Which Not to Eat,” Sierra, July/August 2016

“A Tern for the Better,” Bay Nature, July/September 2016

“Scientists Are Using Tarantula Venom to Learn How Your Body Hurts,” WIRED, 6/6/16

“Here’s What’s Inside Those Magical Stain-Erasing Pens,” WIRED, 5/27/16

“Why It’s So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System,” WIRED, 5/20/16

“A Bizarre New Model for How Hawaii Got Its Curve,” WIRED, 5/11/16

“Like Fungi in the Bank: Sierra Nevada Forests Invest in Fire-Withstanding Fungi,” California, Spring 2016

“4 Products to Help You Grow Your Own Food,” Sierra, March/April 2016

“You Can’t Take a Mountain of Aluminum Ore With You,” WIRED, March 2016

“5 Ecofriendly Superfoods,” Sierra, January/February 2016

2015:

“Giving Credence: Why is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That?“, California, Winter 2015

“Why You Probably Shouldn’t Trust This Week’s Political Polls,” WIRED, 12/18/15

“Invisibility Cloaks, Vibrator Apps, and More: Gifts Inspired by UC Berkeley Innovation,” California, 12/18/15

“The Secret History of World War II-Era Drones,” WIRED, 12/16/15

“The Geminid Meteor Shower Is The Weekend’s Best Show. Here’s How to See It,” WIRED, 12/13/15

“Beautiful NASA Visualization Predicts Space Weather Around Pluto,” WIRED, 12/10/15

“Powered Exoskeletons Could Replace Wheelchairs Someday,” WIRED, 12/9/15

“Mind-Controlled Robot Suits Help the Paralyzed Move Again,” WIRED, 12/2/15

“Moths Inspire Anti-Glare Coatings That Grab Light and Don’t Let Go,” WIRED, 11/26/15

“Mussels’ Sticky Secretions Make For Super-Strong Adhesives,” WIRED, 11/23/15

“Bulwagi the Elephant Cracked His Tusk. Carbon Fiber To The Rescue!” WIRED, 11/19/15

“Scientists Learn To Spot–and Tag–The Ocean’s Elusive Beaked Whale,” WIRED, 11/13/15

“Climate Change Is Throwing Ocean Food Webs Out Of Whack,” WIRED, 11/12/15

“Satellites Expose Just How Bad Indonesia’s Fires Are,” WIRED, 11/9/15

“Electronic Skin May Transform The Way We Interact With Tech,” WIRED, 10/30/15

“The Secret Lives of Bats,” Sierra, 10/27/15

“Scientists Who Tweet From Ridiculously Remote Places,” WIRED, 10/23/15

“This Massive Wave Machine Is for Science, Not Fun,” WIRED, 10/22/15

“Ebola is Coming Back–But It Never Really Went Away,” WIRED, 10/16/15

“Britain’s Antarctic Research Station Looks Like a Spaceship,” WIRED, 10/15/15

“Scientists Can Now Predict Intelligence from Brain Activity,” WIRED, 10/12/15

“6 Food Subscriptions You Need,” Sierra, November/December 2015

“Among the Bone Eaters,” Sierra, September/October 2015

“A Smoking Gun: The Asteroid that Killed the Dinosaurs May Have Had Help,” California, Fall 2015

“Innate or Learned Prejudice? Turns Out Even the Blind Aren’t Color Blind on Race,” California, Fall 2015

“Hurricane Joaquin Looks Like a Beast From Space,” WIRED, 10/1/15

‘Your Gut Microbiome Could Put You At A Higher Risk of Asthma,” WIRED, 9/30/15

“NASA Discovers Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars,” WIRED, 9/28/15

“To Hear History: High-Tech Project Will Restore Recorded Native Americans’ Voices,” California, 8/27/15

“What We Can Learn from The Oaks that Survived Katrina,” WIRED, 8/26/15

“Why Frozen Sperm Can’t Save Earth’s Imperiled Species–Yet,” WIRED, 8/25/15

“The Best Natural Disaster Experts to Follow on the Web,” WIRED, 8/14/15

“A Handy New Use for Drones: Collecting Whale Snot,” WIRED, 8/10/15

“5 Foods Made From Trash,” Sierra, September/October 2015

“7 Wonderful Water-Saving Gadgets,” Sierra, September/October 2015

“The Randall Museum Closes for a Makeover, and the Animals Get a Big Adventure,” Bay Nature, 7/1/15

“From Spider-Infested Digs, U.S. Company Devises Way to Spin Silk—Sans the Spiders,” California, 6/29/15

“Emotional Truth: An Expert Tutored Pixar to Get Joy and Sadness Right in “Inside Out,”” California, 6/16/15

“‘Cowed’ Portrays Eating as a Political Act,” Sierra, July/August 2015

“6 of the Eco-Friendliest Meats You Can Buy,” Sierra, July/August 2015

“Speech Saver: Anticipating Upheavals, Project Aims to Preserve the World’s Languages,” California, Summer 2015

“Got Your Number: Cyber-attacks Make Us Rethink the Idea of Social Security Numbers,” California, 5/28/15

“Looking Up,” UChicago Magazine, May/June 2015

“How Hot Sauce Can Help You Save The World,” Sierra, May/June 2015

“How Product Reviews Became Performance Art,” California, 4/21/15

“San Francisco Bay: the Ocean’s Watershed,” Bay Nature, 4/6/15

“Reverse Cycle,” California, Spring 2015

“Anthropocene Now,” California, Spring 2015

“A Natural History of That Little Yellow Flower That’s Everywhere Right Now,” Bay Nature, 3/11/15

“Lost Childhoods: First-of-its-Kind Museum Displays the Artifacts of Foster Care Kids,” California, 3/11/15

“No Newts is Bad Newts,” Sierra, March/April 2015

“6 Kitchen Gadgets that Save Energy and Reduce Waste,” Sierra, March/April 2015

“Lick Gets Googled–But Is a Cool Million Enough to Save the Endangered Observatory?” California, 2/26/15

“How Nature Teaches Us to Grieve,” Sierra, January/February 2015

“4 Thought-Provoking Graphic Novels about the Environment,” Sierra, January/February 2015