Recent Work

I went 28 days without applying soaps, shampoo or deodorant while I tested out an invisible live bacterial body spray that promised to leave my skin feeling cleaner and more hydrated. Here’s what happened next.

I got a very odd magazine assignment that involved applying live bacteria for a month — and giving up her normal soaps and shampoos. What did me co-workers at KALW Radio in San Francisco have to say about my “bacteria experiment”? And just how badly did they think I smelled?

HowSound’s Rob Rosenthal caught up with me to ask: what was it like reporting from the inside of an iron lung? The answer: strange. Here’s what else I had to say.

Global warming will dictate the world’s salad bar in the future – and scientists are rushing to prepare our produce.

Could a breakthrough in radio tracking help solve colony collapse disorder by outfitting bees with tiny radio transmitters?

Meet Martha Lillard, one of the last American polio survivors who still relies on an iron lung to breathe. Her archaic respirator has kept her alive for 60 years, and she would rather die than try to live without it.

Modern maple syrup collection is two-thirds technology, one-third nostalgia. As maple farmers get more sap from their trees than ever before, critics say flavor and tradition are disappearing for good.

A Bay Area man and his husband try to greet death in style. But they discover that death has its own agenda. BON VOYAGE has now aired across three continents. It won the 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award from the NLGJA and was nominated for a 2013 Sony Radio Academy Award.

I spent some time with three homeless people in San Francisco to find out how they got there and how they survive day to day. People end up homeless for all kinds of reasons. Why they stay homeless is more complicated.