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As seen in: The Seattle Times, Outside Magazine, Tampa Bay Times, Anchorage Daily News, Nextgov/FCW, Government Executive, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Newsshooter
Covers:  metro, extreme sports, science, oceans, environment
Staff Sr. Video Journalist at the New York Times. Native Californian living in Brooklyn.

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Erik Olsen is a staff Senior Video Journalist for The New York Times. He shoots, writes, edits and narrates video stories for nytimes.com. Occasionally he writes for print and shoots photos. He has produced for ABC News, Current and other outlets. He's an avid photographer, panoramic shooter, writer, and scuba diver.

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An effective scorecard for political accountability | Opinion

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By Bruce Bond, Erik Olsen
| The Seattle Times Verified
Scorecards are typically a tool for measuring progress toward a particular goal. At Common Ground Committee (CGC) our goal is to reduce polarization. One of the ways to do that is to help increase the frequency of bipartisanship exhibited within our political leadership. Doing so creates overall favorable outcomes for our country and our democracy. We need to calm the waters if we are going to move forward to address the serious problems facing our nation.
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Google’s Larry Page Thinks We’ll Soon Be Soaring Over Traffic in These Cute Flying Cars He’s Building

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By Erik Olsen
| Nextgov/FCW Verified
On a recent, brutally hot morning on the edge of a lake just outside Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Carter Reum was strapped into his vehicle and ready to lift off into the future. Except he didn’t. Reum was sitting inside the narrow cockpit of the Flyer, a ten-propeller flying vehicle designed and built by Kitty Hawk, a company started by Google’s Larry Page. It was to be Reum’s inaugural flight in the vehicle after becoming the first person to buy one. (Kitty Hawk would not disclose the price).
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These Magnetic Robots Might Someday Crawl Around Inside You

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By Erik Olsen
| Nextgov/FCW Verified
Engineers at MIT have developed tiny magnetic robots that could one day be used as biomedical devices inside humans. The robots, which are about the size of a quarter coin, are made of a novel type of 3D-printer ink, infused with tiny magnetic particles arranged in such a way that when a magnet is passed beneath them, they constrict in a specially-designed pattern.
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