2010

2010 was a massive year for me: I learned a lot in internships and classes, got to write a lot for many different outlets, and found my content legs. I also moved from Santa Cruz to Philadelphia and New York City.

In our Winter quarter, I interned at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, writing local news stories of all kinds. Our classes in the winter quarter were:

• Science Feature Writing
• Multimedia Reporting and Storytelling

 In the Spring, I interned at the WIRED Science blog. Our classes were:

• Multimedia Reporting and Storytelling
• Investigative and Policy Reporting
• Profiles

In June, I graduated from Santa Cruz. I drove across the country with my cat Ignaz Semmelweis to Philadelphia for an internship at The Scientist, where I got to blog and write magazine feature stories for a scientific audience.

In the Fall, I got an internship at Discover Magazine and picked up again, heading to NYC to write for 80beats and Discoblog, RIP.

2010 Clips

December

December 30th, 2010 — Did Early Humans Migrate Across a Watery, Green Sahara? (80beats)
December 29th, 2010 — Which Celebrities Are Science-Illiterate Whack Jobs? Find Out Here (Discoblog)
NJ Mayor Is a Tweeting, Snow-Shoveling Blizzard Hero (Discoblog)
December 28th, 2010 — Are Booze-Drenched Societies More Likely To Be Monogamous? (Discoblog)
Fridge of the Future Predicts We Will Be Lazy (Discoblog)
December 23rd, 2010 — News Roundup: Coal Ash Aftermath, Suing to Save The Wolves, and More E.T. Science (80beats)
Rogue Performer Turns Friend’s Face Into Drum Kit—All for Science! (Discoblog)
December 22nd, 2010 — Weirdest of the Weird: Discoblog’s Favorite Stories of 2010 (Gallery) (Discoblog)
Mutant Mice Chirp Like Birds. So What Are They Saying? (Discoblog)
December 21st, 2010 — GM Recycles Oil-Soaked Booms From BP Spill Into Parts for Chevy Volt (Discoblog)
Man Accidentally Carries Loaded Gun Onto Plane; TSA Failure Rate May Approach 70% (80beats)
December 20th, 2010 — Elephant Bird’s Tasty, Giant Eggs Were Most Likely Its Downfall (Discoblog)
You Go, Girl—Female Students Who Bike or Walk Do Better on Tests (Discoblog)
December 17th, 2010 — Each Cell-Phone Tower Creates 18 Babies?! The Difference Between Causation & Correlation (Discoblog)
LHC’s Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory (80beats)
Chernobyl & Indonesia: The Newest Members of the “Grief Tourism” Club (Discoblog)
December 16th, 2010 — Presidential Commission Gives Synthetic Biology the Green Light  (80beats)
Science of the Obvious: Beauty Sleep Is Real & Tired People Look Tired (Discoblog)
Pee-based Gaming Coming to a Urinal Near You (If You’re in Japan) (Discoblog)
December 15th, 2010 — Are Gun-Toting Climate Skeptics Taking Pot Shots at Wind Turbines? (Discoblog)
Year’s Best Peer Review Comments: Papers That “Suck the Will to Live” (Discoblog)
December 14th, 2010 — Proved by Science: Sleepy Bees Are Sloppy Dancers (80beats)
Map of Facebook Friend Connections Lights Up the World (Discoblog)
December 13th, 2010 — Navy’s New Railgun Shoots at Mach 7, Can Hit Targets 100 Miles Away (80beats)
A Potential Cure for Male Diabetics Is Found in Their Own Testicles (80beats)
Shark Attack in Egypt? Must Be the Work of Israeli Agents (Discoblog)
December 10th, 2010 — Building an Ancient Greek “Computer” out of Lego (Discoblog)
Computerized Smart-Gun Can Shoot Someone Behind a Rock (80beats)
SpaceX Reveals Secret Cargo on Its Orbital Test Flight: Space Cheese! (Discoblog)
December 9th, 2010 — Aging Kazakhstan President Asks His Scientists to Find Fountain of Youth (Discoblog)
Is That a Sausage in Your Petri Dish? (Discoblog)
From a Pregnant Woman’s Blood Sample, Researchers Determine Baby’s Genome (80beats)
December 8th, 2010 — Exoplanets of the Week: A “Diamond Planet” and Gas Giant Quadruplets (80beats)
Dental Researchers to Mouth Bacteria: Don’t Get too Attached (Discoblog)
A Creepy Monster of the Forest: The Albino, Vampiric Redwood Tree (Discoblog)
Dirty Money? Controversial Chemical BPA Found on Dollar Bills (80beats)
December 7th, 2010 — New Bacterium Is Digesting the Titanic, One Iron Atom at a Time (80beats)
Canadian Internet Users: Link to This Post at Your Own Risk (Discoblog)
Bug Juice: Hornet May Turn Sunlight Into Electricity (Discoblog)
December 6th, 2010 — NASA Found Aliens! Or Not. The Worst Coverage of Arsenic-Loving Bacteria (Discoblog)
Study: Why Swine Flu Struck the Middle-Aged, Sparing the Young & Old (80beats)
How to Prep for Oil Spills: Dump 210,000 Gallons of Popcorn in the Water (Discoblog)
December 2nd, 2010 — A New Treatment for Bowel Problems: Eating 1,000 Parasitic Worm Eggs (Discoblog)
Kinect Hacks: Turn Invisible, Make an Instant Light Saber, & More (Discoblog)
SOFIA the Flying Telescope Cruises Through Her First Science Mission (80beats)
December 1st, 2010 — Great Space Balls of Fire! How to Explain Weird Sightings Over Australia? (Discoblog)
The 2 Ingredients for Self-Replicating Solar Power: Sahara Sand & Sun (80beats)]