Category: Starre’s Work
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The Stronger Sex Named a Best Science Book of 2025 – Twice!
Both Library Journal (the publication for libraries and librarians that helps them pick books AKA the realest readers!) and the Next Big Idea Club named my book, The Stronger Sex as Best Books of 2025. Love that the Library Journal is called “Stellar Selections” as stellar of course means “relating to a star” and…. that’s…
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Interview with Me in The Open Notebook
So happy to end the year on such a positive note with this interview feature in the prestigious The Open Notebook site, an incredible resource for science journalists or any journalist who covers health, animals, environment, etc. I so appreciated that Skyler Ware asked such smart questions about how I reported around the dearth of…
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Health Storytelling at Emory University
I had a wonderful conversation with renown journalist Maryn McKenna, as a part of the Emory University Health Storytelling series. It was livestreamed and is also available to watch in the YouTube video above.
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For Pacific Standard: Where Were the Usual Suspects in Making a Murderer?
This story is one I am incredibly proud of. I delved into how an ignorance of the “usual suspects” in Making a Murderer says quite a bit about the media and police culture in the United States. I got to speak with domestic violence expert Nancy Lemon and delved into questions of nonfiction and storytelling.
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For Vice: 5 Other Cases That Defined Abortion Rights
My first article for Vice’s Broadly site, on the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade looked at other cases that have influenced abortion rights in the US.
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I Wrote: How You May Be Eating Plastic and Fibers with Your Fish
Plastics aren’t the only thing that fish are eating; now they are consuming fibers (from our clothes washing machines) too. I wrote about a new study on the subject on what’s in fish stomachs—and what that may mean for human beings’ health—in my latest article for Mental Floss. In short, “the mismanagement of our waste is coming…
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I Wrote: 5 Promising Male Birth Control Methods for Mental Floss
My first article for Mental Floss was on one of my favorite topics: Male Birth Control. I honestly think it would be a better world for men and women if men had more birth control options—women have more than a dozen—men have only 2.
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