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Project: Emptying the World’s Aquarium
A Widening Gulf
for WWF Magazine
Published: Summer 2015
For fishing families along America’s Gulf Coast, illegal fishing is a reality that’s hitting very close to home.
The Lobster Wars
for bioGraphic
Published: May 2019
In one coastal Mexican town, a sustainable fishery anchors the community. So why has Florida outlawed the same fishing methods?
Great White Mystery
for National Geographic
Published: June 2016
Thanks to Jaws, they're the ocean's most iconic and feared fish. But we know surprisingly little about them.
In Search of the Lost Empire of the Maya
for National Geographic
Published: September 2016
The ambitious Snake kings used force and diplomacy to create the most powerful alliance in their culture’s history.
A Forest Hidden by Fog
for bioGraphic
Published: September 2016
Spellbound by an idea, a writer sets out to find the mythical cloud forest—and shines a bright light on an endangered ecosystem.
Why trials of autism treatments have a placebo problem
for Spectrum
Published: November 2016
People with autism — and their family members — are susceptible to powerful placebo effects. Some researchers are using the problem to better understand this mystifying phenomenon.
Mesmerising
for Aeon
Published: November 2016
Look into my eyes: the fantastical history, mysterious healing power and emergent neuroscience of hypnosis
Excerpt: Remembering Childhood Trauma That Never Happened
for New York Magazine
Published: November 2016
New York Magazine ran an excerpt from my book, Suggestible You, introducing the concept of false memories.
Unlocking the Healing Power of You
for National Geographic Magazine
Published: December 2016
Science is showing that how you feel isn’t just about what you eat, or do, or think. It’s about what you believe.
Requiem for the Vaquita
for Scientific American
Published: August 2017
What the demise of a small Mexican porpoise tells us about extinction in the 21st century