All Work Gallery
How NYC makes 24 million pounds of trash—per day—disappear.
The New York Times for Kids | June 2025
Stephen Rea’s brilliant memoir of a lifetime of friendship with the Prince of Darkness.
Simon & Schuster | November 2025
The official history of the United States Postal Service, the agency whose infrastructure built America.
Melcher Media | 2025
The biggest internal organ’s size is matched only by its importance.
Men’s Health | May/June 2025
A high school mariachi teacher from the Rio Grande Valley and an Afghan community leader from Omaha find the perfect song to play together, on the banks of the Missouri River.
Emerson Collective | March 2025
Bionic limbs, nuclear fusion, jet fuel from air. Immigration and food access. Art on hallowed ground in New Orleans and Harlem.
Emerson Collective | 2024
If you’re gonna stay healthy, it’s gotta take a lot of bullets for your lungs, and keep down the pool of acid in your stomach. [Gulps]
Men’s Health | November/December 2024
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on her debut novel, Catalina, a bildungsroman for the age of immigration.
Emerson Collective | October 2024
Jonathan Blitzer on his masterful account of the history of 21st-century migration.
Emerson Collective | September 2024
Data ecologist Eric Berlow’s Climate Finance Tracker uncovers crucial patterns in investment in climate solutions by modeling dollar flows as a food web.
Emerson Collective | September 2024
Chef Dieuveil Malonga’s Culinary Innovation Village, in rural Rwanda, is at the center of a new era of economic opportunity—and a new movement of pan-African Cuisine.
Emerson Collective | July 2024
Shipwrecks are even cooler and more interesting than you imagine. They don’t look like that, though.
The New York Times for Kids | July 2024
Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey started the election administrator podcast High Turnout, Wide Margins on a lark. It became a lifeline.
Emerson Collective | August 2024
The biggest, most important filters in your immune system also help you breathe.
Men’s Health | July/August 2024
High school students are reshaping the historical landscape of a small Mississippi town.
Emerson Collective | June 2024
On the under-sung organ that pulls double-duty on diabetes and digestion.
Men’s Health | May/June 2024
How to stay cool under pressure, according to a spelling bee champ, a brain surgeon, and Ken Jennings.
The New York Times for Kids | March 2024
The labyrinth in your belly contains myriad living things and even a second brain.
Men’s Health | March/April 2024
Virtual power plants, remote-controlled fertilizer, collective bargaining from asylum seekers, and a new, more personal, model for healthcare.
Emerson Collective | 2023
On the origins of Halloween and the utility of fear.
The New York Times for Kids | October 2023
Learning how ice cream is made and tasting some of the best, with Ben Van Leeuwen and an NYC 4th grader.
The New York Times for Kids | July 2023
After decades and decades of reaching for cheap commodity seeds, the birdseed business is changing.
Audubon | Spring 2023
Health care is not like anything else you buy. The price is not the price.
Men’s Health | August 2022
Low T can’t change your life. Right? (I wrote the sidebars.)
Men’s Health | January/February 2022
At-home medical visits. In-community energy ownership. The inner workings of the modern immigration system.
Emerson Collective | 2022
Spirit Halloween stores pop up all around the country right when we need them. And then, just like that, they’re gone.
The New York Times For Kids | October 2021
Lots of men are concerned about their testosterone levels. What do they actually need to know?
Men’s Health | October 2019
Are the temperature differences between partners in a couple physiological, or could it be something more?
Prevention | November 2019
The editor of BuzzFeed News recalibrates the newsroom for the digital age.
Esquire | June 2019
Tips, reviews, lifehacks, and the occasional useless (but entertaining) tidbit.
Popular Mechanics | 2015-2019
A brief biography of the printing press that prints Popular Mechanics.
Popular Mechanics | April 2019
A new movie about a tunneling monomaniac and a sleeping bag suitable for watching said movie on a winter night.
Popular Mechanics / April 2019
An inventor fights the utilities over a metering system.
Popular Mechanics | March 2019
All the technologies that are changing the fire season.
Popular Mechanics | Winter 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winner C.J. Chivers on doing things right the first time.
Popular Mechanics | Winter 2018
Six veterans on how their military service informs their desire to win elected office.
Popular Mechanics | November 2018
NASA’s “Mohawk Guy,” Bobak Ferdowsi, goes to a convention for UFO truthers.
Popular Mechanics | November 2018
Coverage of urban tech from the October 2045 issue of Popular Mechanics.
Popular Mechanics | October 2018
FBI Counterterrorism chief Bill Priestap on corporate espionage.
Popular Mechanics | October 2018
Coachella inspires a swimming pool innovation for parties.
Popular Mechanics | October 2018
About the guys who filmed all of time in the middle of the desert.
Popular Mechanics | September 2018
NASA’s “Mohawk Guy,” Bobak Ferdowsi, explains wild ideas about how e-Ink could revolutionize satellites.
Popular Mechanics | September 2018
An in-house team of fine artists makes an exhibition for the American Museum of Natural History.
Popular Mechanics | July/August 2018
Shawn Ryan is the best in the world at finding gold.
Popular Mechanics | June 2018
The TESS satellite will find planets around other other stars—maybe some like Earth.
Popular Mechanics | May 2018
NASA’s ‘Mohawk Guy,’ Bobak Ferdowsi, on the Blue Origin engine that may help retire the Russian engine many American rockets use.
Popular Mechanics | May 2018
The best stories in Popular Mechanics since in 1902.
Popular Mechanics | January/February 2018
Behind the scenes of the jobs that keep the planet running.
Popular Mechanics | 2015-2017
A profile of Jack White, on the occasion of a new record pressing plant.
Popular Mechanics | July/August 2017
An atelier’s signature show consists of forgeries.
The National | February/March 2017
The foremost college of California Wine Country takes on coffee.
The National | February/March 2017
The Kootenai language is down to its last few native speakers. Can it be saved?
Native News | 2014
The Denver band’s music is buildup, crest, and crash.
The Missoula Independent | August 2014
To see Paul McCartney live, I had to leave New York City for Missoula, Montana. Makes perfect sense.
The Missoula Independent | July 2014
A whirl in the White Denim blender (for fewer than 40 minutes).
The Missoula Independent | January 2014
