Selected Writing
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Can MDMA Save a Marriage?
A new wave of experimental therapy is enlisting the psychedelic drug to help couples in distress heal.
Nautilus Magazine
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A Better Way to Die
Meet the community of people in Philadelphia forging a more dignified path for the dying.
Philadelphia Magazine
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Can the Pawpaw Seed a More Sustainable Future?
As festivals celebrate the beloved native fruit, researchers explore its potential as a low-input, high-value crop for small farmers.
Civil Eats
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How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America
A groundbreaking research project has reimagined an entire unit with Scandinavian principles. Could it revolutionize U.S. prisons?
Philadelphia Magazine
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A Tragedy with No End
Why does Garrett Hardin’s pessimistic fable of the "tragedy of the commons" haunt our collective imagination?
Distillations Magazine
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Finding the Sublime in the Domestic
A retrospective of Joan Brown explores the artist’s fascination with the everyday objects that surrounded her.
Carnegie Magazine
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Sylvia Earle and the Call of the Deep
Diving’s interwoven history of exploration and exploitation can trap even a decorated naturalist like so many fish in a net.
Distillations Magazine
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Chester Residents Fight Back Against $6B LNG Terminal
“There’s no place to put it that is not going to be an unbearable, intolerable burden for the people who live near it.”
Environmental Health News
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Is Philadelphia's Traffic Safety Effort Stalling Out?
In the seven years since the city declared its goal to eliminate traffic deaths by 2030, they have risen by more than 50 percent.
Grid Magazine