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Good morning. I wrote about what happened when the tallest dam in the United States nearly failed, and whether it could happen again: nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magaz…
Brain tumors shrinking overnight. I wrote about it: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Deadline for this is one week from tomorrow—more about the award here: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/…
Writer friends! Apply now for the best prize in journalism (named after one of the best people in journalism): the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. $12,500 to support your longform passion project.
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Writer friends! Apply now for the best prize in journalism (named after one of the best people in journalism): the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. $12,500 to support your longform passion project.
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Another hydroelectric dam may have been destroyed in the Himalayas by a catastrophic flood. Some rumours suggest this might have been a GLOF. Either way, I once again make the point thatmany large dam projects are not properly considering extreme events.
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Six years ago, the tallest dam in the US nearly failed. It may have been a harbinger of disasters to come. “Whereas an earthquake is more like an act of God,” @cwhe writes, “flooding points out the flaws of man.” nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magaz…
It's about infrastructure, but (as with the Musk story) it's also about how we ignore warning signs, miscalculate risk, and dismiss evidence even when it's right in front of us.
Thanks to @ByLukeMitchell and @billwasik for shepherding it into the magazine. And to @KSJatMIT for supporting my research into this topic!
Proud of this collection about birds that I co-edited with Jonathan Franzen (who's not on Twitter), which is available for pre-order now: orionmagazine.org/product/sp…
The deadline for the $12,500 Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award is in six days: March 2. Apply now!
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Christopher Cox retweeted
.@opcofamerica is excited to present an evening with award-winning author and journalist @Anand_Gopal_, in conversation w/ Chris Cox (@cwhe), who, as an editor at Harper's, published Gopal's reporting from Afghanistan and Syria between 2012 and 2014. RSVP: events.r20.constantcontact.c…
I wrote about the lawsuits Tesla faces this spring and Elon Musk's philosophy of risk: nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magaz…
I wanted to add one final note of appreciation to the two research editors at @NYTmag who checked this story: @liamiller and @Elizabbarber. They made the piece immeasurably better
Highly recommend listening to 34:35 of the audio version, when the narrator has to say the letter O nineteen times: nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magaz…
To understand the Tesla lawsuits, I read a lot of redacted depositions about Autopilot. Much of the experience was like this:
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"Recent research indicates that extreme storms like the ones responsible for the 1862 flood are becoming likelier as the climate warms." - Two years ago, KSJ alum @cwhe wrote about the havoc that a series of big storms could wreak in California. ksj.mit.edu/news/2021/06/11/…
