Hot off the griddle, I wrote a fun feature about the food traditions–old and new–on display at the sixth annual Latke Festival in New York City. I think my favorite iteration was the simple potato pancake with homemade applesauce from The Commons, a new American restaurant in Chelsea. A crispy fried shell encased the creamy …
I recently put on my Social Historian Hat for an interview with The Rialto Report, an amazing collection of oral histories about “the golden age of adult film.” Producer Ashley West and I chatted about my book, The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City; Marty Hodas, the man who …
My latest story, “250-Year-Old Eyewitness Accounts of Icier Arctic Attest to Loss of Sea Ice,” has just been posted on Scientific American‘s website. This marks my debut for the nation’s most prestigious science magazine! My story looks at ARCdoc, the research project based at the University of Sunderland, that data-mined old ships’ logbooks for weather …
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The University of East Anglia—where I spent a semester abroad in 1996—is launching a project to predict how the Arctic will cope with global warming by constructing a sea ice chamber and using state-of-the-art computer models. The €2M ($2.74 million) research initiative will reproduce the chemical exchanges between the ocean, sea ice, snow and the …