Writing short
for Central TimeHear how over-fishing in the Sea of Cortez serves as an example of what's to come globally.
Interview: Happening Now
for Happening NowI appeared on a national news show to talk about the book and the cover story.
Interpretive panel at the San Jose Airport
Every now and again I do random adventures in science writing like this interpretive panel now on display just outside of the San Jose Airport. The text is mine, the images are, sadly, not.
TEDX: Chronic Pain – Shedding the Second Dark Age
Published: September 26, 2017
Chronic Pain: Shedding the Second Dark Age
Bay Trail Interpretive Panel
An interpretive panel I helped conceive with Cathy Reinhard of NatureGraphic Interpretive Design. Somewhere on the Peninsula near Redwood City.
PBS NewsHour: The placebo effect’s role in healing, explained
for PBS NewsHourPublished: April 11, 2018
I traveled with a film crew to Huatla, Mexico, and Baltimore, Maryland, to understand the intersection of science, faith and healing.
Erik Vance scrutinizes a battle over dolphin rights
for The Open NotebookPublished: November 2011
Reporting from the trenches in the war over dolphin rights, freelance science writer Erik Vance relates the story of Lori Marino and Diana Reiss, dolphin researchers who have spent most of their careers as close colleagues and friends
Just the Towhee of Us
for CaliforniaPublished: Summer 2006
In 2006 I interviewed an expert in back yard love songs. Take a walk in the Bay Area hill s and listen for a very unusual type of duet.
Natural Habitat: Erik Vance
for The Open NotebookPublished: October 2012
To see the slideshow, click here.
In our “Natural Habitat” series, we invite science writers to share their working spaces — offices, spare bedrooms, coffee shops, hammocks — and the accoutrements that help them do their best work. (If you’d like to nominate your office to be featured at Natural Habitat, let …
