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Articles Editor @undarkmag • Instructor @nyu_journalism • Books: Infested (2015) & The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (2016 & 2023) • She/Her • 🏳️‍🌈

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Science writer and journalist. Contributing editor at Popular Science, blogger at Our Modern Plagues on the Popular Science network, author of Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated our Bedrooms and Took Over the World (April 2015, University of Chicago Press). Has also written for: Slate, BBC Future, Aeon, TED, NOVA Next, and more.

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Book Review: This Relationship Shaped Rachel Carson’s Environmental Ethos

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| Scientific American Verified
NONFICTION Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell. Stanford University Press, 2025 ($25) On a summer night in the mid-1950s, two women lay side by side on Dogfish Head, a spit of land on Maine’s jagged coast where a river meets the ocean. They took in the dazzling stars, the smudged filaments of the Milky Way, the occasional flash of a meteor.
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The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition

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| press.uchicago.edu
Recognize what information to fact-check Identify the quality and ranking of source materials Learn to fact-check a variety of media types: newspaper; magazine; social media; public and commercial radio and television, books, films, etc.
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This biologist panned a “mosquito eradicator” product. Its maker bit back.

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| Mother Jones Verified
Membership Ticker MOTHER JONES NEEDS YOUR HELP Straight to the point: Donations have been concerningly slow for our hugely important First $500,000 fundraising campaign. We urgently need your help, and a lot of help, over the next few weeks so we can pay for the one-of-a-kind journalism you get from us. Learn more in “Less Dreading, More Doing,” where we lay out this wild moment and how we can keep charging hard for you.
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