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After defecting from academia, she entered the science communication program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She ended up in London, writing for New Scientist magazine, where she met people with super human alcohol tolerances.
Back on the West Coast, she has rediscovered her love of down vests, trees and coffee shops. Okay, so she never stopped loving coffee shops, it's just that there are so many MORE.
These days she splits her time between Inkling and writing for New Scientist, Scientific American, Scientific American MIND and the Los Angeles Times.
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Pros and Cons of Raw Milk: Part Deux Might prevent allergies, could possibly fight an iota of cancer, but don't expect it to do your taxes or anything by 20 February 2008 |
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Health Raw Milk…clean and healthy? by 18 December 2007 |
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Health The Pros and Cons of Sushi Bursting with happy fats and squirming with paralyzing pathogens, sushi has a little something for everyone. by 28 November 2007 |
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Human Nature The Calculus of Saying “I Love You” Why you should never date man who knows more math than you. by 13 October 2007 |
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Your Health This (Tasty) Week Advice for a long life: eat dinner as a family, avoid bagged lettuce and stay away from stevia. by 21 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (British) Week An ode to my former home country. by 03 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Superficial) Week Advice for a long life: don't get boob implants, keep kids away from McDonald's, don't murder whites, and consider pit lipo by 10 August 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Delusional) Week Advice for a long life: smoke cigarettes instead of weed, eat blue corn tortillas, ditch lite beer and go straight for whisky by 03 August 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Economical Week Advice for a long life: be rich, live in a nice 'hood, get health insurance, leave Missouri, and use the trampoline with care. by 13 July 2007 |
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Creature Feature Knockout of the Week: Allergy Molecule Makes You Dumb by 11 July 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Sinful) Week Advice for a long pre-afterlife: steer clear of wrath, lust, and sharkfin soup -and get thee to a wine carafe instead by 08 June 2007 |
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Pop Culture It Figures: What the Numbers Say This Week Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 29 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Experienced) Week Advice for a long life: read your proctologist's resume, give birth early in mega-hospitals, and use a daycare with benefits by 25 May 2007 |
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Realpolitik Numbers Gone Wild Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 22 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Emotional) Week Advice for a long life: quit your thankless job (as U.S. Press Secretary), cheer up granny and mend your broken heart by 18 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Beautiful) Week Advice for a long life: Botox your pits, celebrate your tresses, and read the literature before your circumcision by 11 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alternative) Week Advice for a long life: Do yoga! Go herbal! Switch hands! Conform! by 02 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week Advice for a long life: Drink hard, cut the carbs, get migraines and don't believe everything they tell you in Texas by 27 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Obvi) Week A special Your Health This Week focuses on news you thought you knew already, but needed major research dollars to be sure about by 20 April 2007 |
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Health The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI What does it take to keep the beautiful healthy, and let the healthy be beautiful? by 17 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week Advice for a long life: fight HIV with God, cut the Vitamin B and keep your babies out of the dorm by 13 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week Advice for a long life: give in to coffee, beware of philosophy and stand clear of your television by 09 April 2007 |
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Pop Culture Sharkwater: Die Hard on the High Seas If you think sharks are creepy, get a load of the people who hunt them by 03 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health this (Teenaged) Week Advice for a long life: talk on the phone, eat some steak at the mall, then talk on the phone and take some fish oil. Whatever by 28 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health this (Bananas) Week Advice for a long life: put down the shampoo, eat guerrilla bananas and go play some ball by 21 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a Long Life: Avoid festering babies, stop tanning before you're hooked and never say diet to a teenage girl by 14 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health this Week Advice for a long life: get a flu shot, brush your teeth, investigate your plastic surgeon and don't have sex with boys. by 07 March 2007 |
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Health One Blockbuster Drug, Many Uses. That's not a side effect, it's another $100 million in sales. by 28 February 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long (offspring's) life: Breast milk, soy protein and fatty acids trump booze, meth and mouthwash by 21 February 2007 |
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Human Nature The Epidemiology of Love Studies indicate that yeah, it cuts like a knife. But it feels so right. by 14 February 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Romantic) Week Advice for a long (sex) life: Work up a sweat, re-read those contraception myths and get your grandma off drugs by 14 February 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long life: sweat moderately, don't drink the hand gel – and boys, be careful with the tea-tree oil by 07 February 2007 |
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Space Space Psychosis and the Lethal Love Triangle Love can make you crazy, but so can space travel. The combination may have driven one astronaut to attempted murder. by 07 February 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long life: Sled with a helmet, avoid the evil man-made trans fat alternative, and go get a mammogram already by 31 January 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a long life: swim safely, stay in prison, drink cranberry juice and keep a lid on your anger by 24 January 2007 |
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Creature Feature Baby Pandas Face a Hard Road Ahead Zoos are awash in birth announcements and cutesy videos. But is the giant panda's future any more secure? by 17 January 2007 |
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Fun with Food I’m Dreaming of An All White Meat Christmas A couple of chemical extractions and one protein-concentrate shake later, an Alberta food researchers changes dark meat to light by 26 December 2006 |
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Pop Culture A Splash of Cell Division Swimmers bring choreographed drama to the humble process of mitosis by 18 December 2006 |
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