Please, Let’s Stop the Epidemic of Armchair Epidemiology, Slate (Mar 26, 2020)
The Final Five Percent, Longreads (Oct 22, 2019)
Why Do So Many Researchers Still Treat Race as a Scientific Concept? Slate (May 30, 2019)
Simple Networks Generate Complex Dynamics, Simons Foundation (May 3, 2018)
Forensic Science May Be Evolving, but the System is Broken, Slate (Feb 28, 2018)
How Natural Should Laboratory Behavior Be? Simons Foundation (Feb 13, 2018)
The Crisis of American Forensics (cover story), The Nation (Feb 1, 2018)
5 tips for scientists who want to become science writers, Medium (Jul 7, 2018)
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things, Slate (Apr 19, 2017)
A California Court Calls on Science, The New York Times (Apr 17, 2017)
How Do Different Brain Regions Interact to Enhance Function, Simons Foundation (Mar 3, 2016)
Our Chemical Garden: Mike Russell’s Visionary Theory of Life’s Origin, Aeon (Jan 11, 2016)
Mind Field: This is Your Brain as a Weapon (cover story), Foreign Policy (Sep 14, 2015)
Sharks Have a Sixth Sense, Atlas Obscura (Aug 5, 2015)
Rethinking the Textbook on Life: Nick Lane’s The Vital Question, The New York Times (Jul 20, 2015)
The Big Problem with Big Science, Nautilus (Apr 22, 2015)
From the Mouths of Babes and Birds, The New York Times (Jun 30, 2013)
Bringing a Virtual Brain to Life, The New York Times (Mar 18, 2013)
Why IQs Rise, The New Republic (Oct 25, 2012)
It’s All In Your Head: The Problems with Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, The Millions (Mar 21, 2012)
A Circuit in Every Cell, Scientific American (Dec 11, 2011)
One Brainy Fish, Scientific American (Sep 1, 2011)
Mental Illness in a Dish, Scientific American (Aug 1, 2011)
How the Brain Bounces Back, Scientific American (Jun 1, 2011)
Mind Control: David Eagleman’s Incognito, The Millions (May 31, 2011)