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- Health & Science Reporter, Medill News ServiceWriting and Editing | Washington D.C. Metro Area, USSummaryI am a multimedia journalist with a concentration in health and science writing.Specialties: Writing, shooting video, gathering audio, and editing in all formats. Production of infographics and knowledge of basic HTML tags. Adobe Creative Suite: Confident with Premiere, Soundbooth, Photoshop; Familiarity with Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, and FlashExperience
- Jun 2011 - PresentHealth & Science Reporter / Medill News Service - Washington, D.C. BureauCoverage of U.S. science policy, healthcare, and climate change for national newspaper, wire service, and broadcast clients. Includes stories in print, video, and infographics. Web editing responsibilities include managing CMS and social media outlets for the bureau.
- Jan 2011 - Jun 2011Health & Science Reporter / Medill News Service - Chicago BureauCovered astronomy and emerging technology beats, and breaking news and general science assignments for commercial clients in Chicago region. Produced videos, audio slideshows, photography, and infographics to complement written articles. Web editing responsibilities included selecting top stories, running editorial meetings, and copy editing.
- Jul 2009 - Aug 2010Associate Program Manager / Partnership for Excellence in Jewish EducationDesigned and implemented programming to train Jewish Day School board members in best practices. Contributed monthly to PEJE Blog and Board Leadership virtual Community of Practice.
- May 2009 - Jun 2010Reporter, Arts & Events and Transportation / The Somerville NewsCovered arts and events, and transportation for local, weekly newspaper. Wrote on assignment and provided photography.
- Sept 2007 - Jun 2009Assistant, Research & Evaluation / Partnership for Excellence in Jewish EducationDesigned layout and wrote content of departmental marketing and communications. Evaluation support including creation of survey instruments and analysis of data.
- Jun 2006 - Aug 2007Research Assistant / Teaching Research InstituteConducted quantitative and qualitative interviews for research study on brain injuries. Data entry and analysis using Microsoft Excel, Access, and SPSS databases.
Education-
2010 - 2011Northwestern University - Medill School of JournalismMaster of Science in Journalism
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2001 - 2006University of OregonBachelor of Arts in International Studies, Romance Languages
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- @RachelShukert The squeal you made when Jason Grote said he spent Thanksgiving at Anjelica Huston's house was the best moment of the podcast
- @PaulMarks12 Isn't that called dubstep? ;)
- @PaulMarks12 Paul, you have no idea how much I love this. And I also love that you told me via tweet, as I'm sure Her Majesty would hate.
- @krishusted Yeah, I think it has to do with the audio aesthetic. It's maybe too busy or not straightforward enough.
- @krishusted Tell him he's weird. (I tried to get my dad into it, and he wasn't really feelin' it)
- @laurenchooljian So jealous of your meteorite times.
- Eating a Ring Pop and watching Captain America. I'm living my best life.
- @TJMoss11 @andrewtheen Haven't been, but I like their Line Dry Rye.
- Wake up Stanley! It's Pretzel Day!!Apr 26, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- @avrabel You've called FL your home state a few times recently, but I always think of you as FROM MAINE. Did I just make that up?Apr 23, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Ken Burns' Baseball makes me realize how nice our nat'l anthem sounds on bluesy piano or sax or guitar. Let's do that at the ballpark, eh?Apr 21, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @TJMoss11 @avrabel I totally pulled a fake Sean Connery when reading that hashtag, Tyler. *Therapist* wanted, right? http://t.co/73sFk0oG
- Best tweet ever? Probably. RT @niallfirth: Computers! Powered by soldier crabs! http://t.co/RKtzAwEH #unconventionalcomputing
- I have such a crush on this #Jeopardy contestant's hair. Also, his name is Maurice, which seems so dark and mysterious.Apr 10, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Here’s my URL spelled out in tags I’ve used on this blog (and the posts they come from). They’re all ridiculous.
Creepy creepy mailbox
He says ‘canyon’ so perfectly
Eavesdropping is easier than actually WRITING
Lala how the life goes on
Steps to a happy brain Yesterday my esteemed colleague Tyler Coates ranked the oeuvre of Wes Anderson in descending order of quality. You can read the post here, but the sequence is as follows: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited. Although he didn’t explicitly state it, he told me IRL that he “would rank Moonrise Kingdom between The Royal Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr. Fox.” Although I like Mr. Coates as a person and think he does a stellar job as the Senior Editor of BlackBook, I believe his appraisal fails in several important ways. The first is that it is wrong.
Both of these lists make me ask the question: am I the only person who enjoyed The Darjeeling Limited? I don’t know anyone in real life who actually liked it either, but it’s my second favorite Wes Anderson film after The Royal Tenenbaums, and it’s one of those films I can watch when I’m sick over and over again. (The people who didn’t like Darjeeling didn’t like Tenenbaums either, so I figure they’re the ones that are nuts).
This is an absolutely fantastic explanation of the measurements we can make in our universe. Though it’s simple enough to grasp, trying to hold this kind of information in my head always sort of makes me dizzy.
The only part of this that surprised me is that in order to test how people perceived men vs. women, they showed them images both right side up and upside down, because:
“…pictures of people present a recognition problem when they’re turned upside down, but images of objects don’t have that problem…”
Is this really the case? Can our complex and evolved brains really not distinguish a human as soon as the image is flipped? That seems like a strange glitch for our brains to have kept all this time.
There’s something so satisfying about running your fingers over fabric swatches. (Taken with instagram)
Where Do Fingerprints Come From?
From cradle to grave, no matter how much fingers grow, everyone’s fingerprints are unique and unchanging.
Video: Smithsonian Channel
Whoa! I never knew how fingerprints formed, how early into life they’re created (24 weeks after conception!!), and how crucial they are to holding things.
This video has me staring at my hands in wonder.
Love these Da Vinci style drawings of the Large Hadron Collider by Sergio Cittolin, a research physicist who’s worked at CERN for 30 years.
(via kottke)
The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again… You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t.
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (via thatwordbumsmeout)That time in *CHICAGO* when I stood at the edge.
I’m having some fun playing with Wander Weeks photos. This week’s assignment is to share a memory from a place you’ve been.
This past weekend was one of the best ever, not in a grandiose big events kind of way, but in an awesome hanging out with great people kind of way. My cousin Laura (one of my favorite people ever) and her two hilarious girls came down for a visit. And we had our friend Aaron over as well, so it was like one big slumber party all weekend. Our weekend was filled with:
- Drinking by the campfire
- Laying in the sun and coloring with the girls
- Great friends: One of my favorite moments was when our friend Matt stopped by and we were all out back by the campfire. He didn’t even come to the front door, just walked through the back gate and joined us, because that’s what you do when you know where the fun is.
- S’mores
- Good food (we finally found a good paella recipe that Charlie ripped out of her in-flight magazine last week)
- Hat Dinner: Gia, the 5-year-old, insisted that we all wear a hat off Charlie’s hat wall while we dined. It was maybe the cutest thing in the world.
- Strolling through the middle of the street while we walked the dog in a big group. That’s one of my favorite things to do. It reminds me of summers as a kid where a gang of us would hang out in the street until it got too dark to play anymore.
- We found an albino spider on a rose. That was pretty exciting.
- Lots of snuggling with the kiddos. At 9 and 5, they’re still such lovebugs and it was so great to get to spend time with them.
- Watching The Breakfast Club and covering their eyes/ears during most of it.
- Passing out as soon as they left because, oh my goodness, kids have so much more energy than we do.
- Laughing so hard my sides hurt
The best story of the weekend came from Laura, who told us about a conversation she had with the girls where they were asking why the parents of a friend of theirs were divorced. Nyla didn’t understand because she said she’s seen them get along okay and why couldn’t they be married anymore? Laura explained that getting along and being married can be two different things sometimes. And Gia pipes up and says:
“I get it. It’s like if your husband always wants to eat fish. And it’s okay the first night, but then you have to eat it every night of the week. It’s like, ‘Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish. Divorce.”
I wish you could hear her inflection on this because it’s priceless, but you’ll have to settle for reading it. If that doesn’t make you laugh, I don’t know if you have a funny bone in your body.
Bill Murray talking about madras pants, rum, and tents makes me want to see Moonrise Kingdom even more than I already did.
“I had to work with a bunch of scouts and kids. No money can make that right, can it?”
Leap Motion, a San Francisco startup has created a device (“the Leap”) that lets you control your computer just my moving your fingers over it, as if you were using a touchscreen in the air.
Leap Motion is now taking pre-orders for the $69.99 device but won’t begin shipping it until the end of this year or early 2013. The company is also opening up its developer ecosystem to give software makers a head start on developing new applications.
Wait, really!?
How is this only $70? However much it costs, I need it. I’ve definitely done that thing where I reach up to Google Maps on my laptop and try to zoom in with the flick-open hand gesture that works on my phone.
Check this out: Sweet Home Alabama played by ELECTRICITY. Not only is this maybe the awesomest use of Tesla coils to date, but the reason it works is really interesting too. From the creator’s website (but edited for grammar and punctuation…I can’t help it, I’m sorry):
[Tesla coils] create an extremely high frequency voltage at their output. This voltage has enough energy to convert a small part of the air around the coil to a plasma (the purple stuff you can actually see). Now this plasma, when it’s created, forces air out of it’s way as it forms. This creates a pressure wave that propagates away from the spark at the speed of sound.
It’s the same thing that happens with a speaker. The cone moves forward and back, creating a pressure wave we perceive as sound. Cool, eh?
I absolutely love that scientists out there are trying to discover the cure for cancer and other noble things, but damn if I’m not super happy that they’re also playing around with stuff like this.
Crazy, amazing facts that can double as conversation starters this weekend.
I feel like this might actually be a problem that spacewalking astronauts encounter on the regular. Imagine floating in space above the incredible ball we call Earth and being overwhelmed at the unrealness of it all. I know if I were an astronaut, that’d be my daily state of emotion.
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Recent Tracks
- How Come by Ray LaMontagne
- Flume by Bon Iver
- Just A Dream by Griffin House
- Beneath Your Tree by Bowerbirds
- When the Time Is Right by Griffin House
- One Way Street by Ann Peebles
- Even So by Rachael Yamagata
- What Are You Waiting For? by My Favorite Highway
- Such Great Heights by Iron & Wine
- For You I Will (Confidence) by Teddy Geiger
Bon IverKings of LeonIron & WineRay LaMontagneInterferenceJoshua RadinGriffin HouseWilliam FitzsimmonsOtis ReddingDamien RiceJosh RitterGlen HansardBrett DennenMat KearneyCold War KidsBand of HorsesBowerbirdsVolcano ChoirDavid GrayDavid KittJohn MayerM. WardRosie ThomasMatt WertzGreat Lake SwimmersAlexi MurdochJames MorrisonThe KillsFionn ReganJosé GonzálezTeddy GeigerJaymayJoshua JamesHorse FeathersPriscilla AhnBen HarperAnn PeeblesBlack Rebel Motorcycle ClubMundyThe StrokesMarc BroussardSufjan StevensFranz FerdinandRazorlightThe MaccabeesJuniperTeiturRachael YamagataSherwoodJoe Purdy- Gold by Interference6 plays
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