Tag: science writing
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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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How Breastfeeding Prevents Breast Cancer for Nature
In my first piece for Nature, I was assigned an embargoed study (it hadn’t published yet) and had to put this story together over a weekend. I was able to speak with a principal researcher, Shirene Loi as she was on her way to Berlin for the prestigious ESMO conference, where she was presenting her…
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Not Every Women’s Midlife Health Issue is Perimenopause for New Scientist
The first of a couple of feature stories based on my book for New Scientist, this piece analyzes how both doctors and patients can make assumptions about healthcare for women in midlife. While it’s wonderful that perimenopause and menopause are receiving some (VERY!) long overdue attention, there’s also some pretty serious bandwagoning going on, with…
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Reporting on Beavers and Salmon at the Elwha Delta for National Geographic
I had the wonderful opportunity to do some in-person reporting at the Elwha Delta on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, about how beavers are likely connected to the chinook salmon recovery there. Here’s the article on National Geographic, and check out some of my pix from reporting the story below!
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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 About Birds and Technology for Scientific American dot com!
I had such a blast putting together this feature for ScientificAmerican.com on how avian researchers use technology to understand how birds fly (there’s still so much to learn about the subject!).
Starre Julia Vartan 