A FEATURE ON TRAFFIC SAFETY AND A BOY’S DEATH,
THIS WINTER
Bicycling Magazine, Winter 2022
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THE LAST OF THE CLIMATE DENIERS HOLD ON, DESPITE YOUR PROTESTS
VICE Magazine, November 2019
Late in the summer of 1989, John Christy discovered the earth wasn’t warming. Satellites spinning through the atmosphere reported no upward trend line, and above the tropics, the University of Alabama atmospheric sciences professor and his research partner, the NASA scientist Roy Spencer, learned that the satellites had actually recorded cooling. The two men were the first to crunch the enormous volume of data captured by the satellites since their launch a decade earlier, the first to build a database that showed the surface readings depicting a warming earth were overblown. They were pioneers. They submitted a paper to Science magazine, and in March the following year, they became celebrities. NPR called. The Los Angeles Times called. Jay Leno made a joke about it on national TV.
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CARTOONISH, IMPRACTICAL, DUMB: THE CONTROVERSIAL ASCENT OF SNOWBLADING
VICE Magazine, March 2020
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“It’s not as sexy. I mean, look at the people on snowblades. They look like dorks. There wasn’t anything to emulate there,” said Mark Puleio, a 48-year-old international mountain guide and a friend of mine. He grew up skiing in the 70s and 80s at Blue Hill in Massachusetts on skis thinner than his wrists and taller than his head. When snowblading surged at ski resorts in the 90s, he thought it was a joke. “They were perceived as fucking stupid. How could you be caught dead on those? They were just so anti-skiing,” he explained. “But we were elitist back then. It was just a much dirtier world, too. That was at the same time that people would make off comments all the time about Rollerbladers. I think [snowblades] have always been perceived as something to be made fun of… Here in the Alps,” where Puleio lives with his family, “the smaller your backpack is, the larger your penis is. But back in the day, the bigger your skis, the bigger your penis.”
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ILL NATURE
Virginia Quarterly Review but was killed, March 2020
These events, you should know, were foretold. Yes, the world burned before. There is no record written of it, just a story, older likely than Christ and passed through time from mouth to ear as a warning. Before the Spanish, before the Inca, before even the Wari there lived in the Andes the Aya. The Aya disrespected their mother earth. Wisemen warned them. But as the Earth warmed, they marched from vast grassy plains to cool mountain caves and stone homes along shady rivers, and they continued to disregard nature, law, community. They continued as a second sun rose alongside the one then a third alongside those two, their fate now bright and hot and horrible.
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AS THE PANDEMIC SURGED, MY DAD SOUGHT BUCKSHOT TO ABATE HIS FEARS
For Virginia Quarterly Review but was killed, May 2020
A story I grew up with: When my dad was a boy, he shot a bird with a BB gun. Blew its head right off; blood all over the snow. He broke the Daisy over his leg and today reviles guns. My dad loves animals and is known to cry when hitting them in a car, and on most issues he is as liberal as the summer sun is long, often aggressively so. Once he told a devout man the Bible is the comic book of life. But in mid March, just as this thing was becoming real in the U.S.A., I got a text from him: “Is your shotgun a 12 gauge?”
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INTO THE MYSTICAL AND INEXPLICABLE WORLD OF DOWSING
Outside Magazine, April 2021
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“Yeah.” He takes a bite of pizza. “There are wormholes.”
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WHY DRONES ARE THE FUTURE OF OUTDOOR SEARCH AND RESCUE
Outside Magazine, September 2021
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So they had prayed up there that God would protect them, and when they heard a buzzing and were washed in bright light, it was as if the heavens had opened.
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THE BEST EDUCATION IS OFTEN OUT OF REACH FOR BLACK CHILDREN
Vox Magazine, November 2017
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I was raised in a family with money, but on Oct. 4, 1988, in a brightly lit operating room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I was born disadvantaged. My mom had wanted a natural birth, but after three days with no progress, she had an emergency cesarean section. She was laid out numb from the chest down on a surgical table, a curtain separating her eyes from her opened stomach. From her womb, I was lifted silent and blue.
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“We got him,” a doctor said. “We got the baby.”
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And then: silence.
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My mom looked up, and my dad was crying.
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CATS AND CHAOS: HOW A TOWN CLERK ALLEGEDLY STOLE $1M PLUS FROM COVENTRY
Vermont Digger, July 2017
Scott Morley climbed a set of fire escape steps to the second story of the Coventry Community Center, slid through a window and dropped to the floor.
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The scene was worse than he expected. Cat feces caked the carpeting. Cat hair hung in clumps on bookshelves and swivel chairs. Ammonia burned Morley’s eyes as two feral cats burst across the hall and raced into another room.
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