Annalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science website io9.com and the tech culture editor for arstechnica.com. She’s a journalist with a decade’s experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, and The Washington Post. She is the editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco, California.
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Neolithic People Performed Brain Surgery On Cows
Plus, evidence for 19th-century abortion views and California weather that will make your head spin.
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Why You Don’t See ‘Goosefoot’ On Your Thanksgiving Dinner Table
Native American crops you’ve never heard of, a new timeline for plants, and measuring the stench of the Neolithic era.
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A Return To The Moon, An Ancient Bludgeon, And Anesthetized Plants
This week, President Trump signed a directive that would set NASA’s sights on the moon...again.
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Along The Kelp Highway
Archeologists agree on an early coastal route for ancient humans crossing from Siberia...and it’s not the land bridge. Plus, dog sacrifices in the Bronze Age.
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Writing The Fantastic In 2017
From other planets to our own future, writers can take us places we’ve never seen. Authors Cory Doctorow, N.K. Jemisin, and Annalee Newitz are among them.
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A Robot Trains For War
A robot gets a painful reminder during a training exercise in this excerpt from Autonomous by Annalee Newitz.
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Bad Plumbing? There Goes The Empire
Researchers say lead pipes of ancient Rome tell the story of the city’s rise and fall.
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A Tower Of Skulls, A Frog Explosion, And A Study Of Cycles
Science journalist Annalee Newitz joins us to talk about some of the stories from the week in science.
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A Climate March, The Architecture Of Bureaucracy, And The Tale Of A Hoff-Bot
An archaeological find near Oaxaca, Mexico hints at the rise of bureaucratic government in the Americas.
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Magnetic Pottery, and the Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Teens
In states where same sex-marriage was legalized, the suicide attempts among gay, lesbian, and bisexual teens dropped by 14 percent.