I am a writer, editor, producer, and fledgling platform developer
Some of my latest stories:
The Lancet, April 27, 2012
NIH global health fellowship reinvents itself
Training in developing countries gives medical students a feel for low-resource environments and usually focuses on infectious diseases. But change is underfoot.
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Newsweek/The Daily Beast
May 10, 2012
New Mayan Discovery: The World Isn’t Ending! The Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012, right? Not according to the fascinating findings from a recent dig.
April 24, 2012
James Cameron and Investors Seek to Lasso and Mine an Asteroid. Lassoing an asteroid could be big business, it might just be a wild ride into space.
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ScienceNow Feb.23, 2012:
The Secret of Schreckstoff. How fish selflessly signal fright to their buddies.
My blog: à propos
Latest entry: Trapped in the ice. When narwhals, also called the unicorns of the sea, get stuck in the Arctic Ocean, only ice breakers can save them.
Twitter: @metricausa
Contact me: v [dot] marx [at] alum [dot] mit [dot] edu
A platform in the making: SeeSaw.
SeeSaw weighs news and comments, showing the community of readers the spectrum of reporting and views on a topic.
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My work:
Newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Boston Globe, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, Die Zeit, Facts, Weltwoche.
Magazines and online-only publications: The Economist, Nature Biotechnology, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, The Lancet, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science Magazine,Scientific American.com, Red Herring, Der Spiegel, MIT’s Technology Review, Utah CEO, Chemical & Engineering News, BioInform, Genomics & Proteomics, Drug Discovery & Development.
TV: ARTE, ZDF, WDR, BR, HR, WGBH.
My past topics include:
innovation nuns R&D earnings imaging science policy sperm pain killers Web 2.0 telecommunications MEMS cancer noses RNAi oceanography brain-drain hieroglyphs zoos IPOs microfluidics databases natural catastrophes statistics comets public health business plans libraries space saliva markets digital devices space exploration chemistry saints glaciers advertising bridges Maya culture research policy GPUs higher education patents aging RAM medicine public-private partnerships climate imaging textiles dentistry nanotech relationships malaria particle accelerators male circumcision dogs bridges geology algorithms explorers pigeons spectroscopy servants genomics microwaves television the brain computing television vaccines multiferroics invasive species text mining plankton drug development civil engineering animals start-ups proteomics newspapers physics comets patients pharmacogenomics simulation angels wikis philanthropy double lives counterfeiting standardized tests steam film