Genetically Modified Conservation

for Conservation Magazine & Utne Reader

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In the mid-1940s, Norman Borlaug started the Green Revolution on a small farm in southern Mexico. His idea was simple. As the human population skyrocketed, he would grow a new kind of wheat with a thicker stem and bigger seed heads, thus increasing its yield …

Why can’t mexico make science pay off?

for Scientific American
Published: October 2013

The nation is poised to explode into the information economy— and yet stubbornly refuses to do so

What Is That Smell?

for Nature
Published: October 2008

Jacek Koziel is a master of odours. On an pig farm in Iowa, he shows Erik Vance some of the peaks and troughs of life as a human detector.

Inherit the Wind

for Discover
Published: December 2010

JoeBen Bevirt is building an inventive, flying turbine in a bold bid to make wind power practical.

Do you want a 20-second warning?

for San Francisco Magazine
Published: October 2008

If we adopted UC Berkeley seismologist Richard Allen’s breakthrough earthquake alarm system, your cell phone and laptop could alert you to the Big One before the shaking begins. Tell that to the powers that be.

Why Nothing Works

for Discover
Published: July 2014

Once dismissed as a psychological curiosity, the placebo effect is now recognized as the key to the brain’s “inner pharmacy.” If only doctors knew how to open the medicine cabinet.

Emptying the World’s Aquarium (Spanish Version)

for Harper's Magazine

Por Erik Vance (Puedes compartir este artículo.  Si lo haces, sólo te agradecería avisarme antes en erik@erikvance.com y citarme en los créditos como Erik Vance.)
Al igual que la mayoría de los pescadores locales en Kino, un tranquilo pueblo de Sonora a mitad de la parte oriental del Mar de Cortez, Ernesto Acuña …

Tag, You’re It!

for Bay Nature
Published: October 2011

Tracking Hawks Over Hill and Dale

The Field Medic

for Nature
Published: July 2010

When emergencies happen in remote settings, field researchers can be left with little recourse. Erik Vance meets a man trying to change that.