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There are rants and there are rants. This here is a rant.

Posted on March 31, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

As Jezebel notes elsewhere, this bomb-throwing freelancer revenge rant burns bridges with admirable abandon. Been a while since I’ve read one quite so fun...

Books/History of science/The Orchid & The Dandelion/Writing

Stuff You Wish Would Go In Your Book But Won’t

Posted on January 29, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Last year I talked to a primatologist in his mid-80s, still sharp, still in his office most days, a pleasant spot in California, surrounded by his books and by ...

Writing

Why I Moved My Blog From Wired

Posted on June 8, 2013 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

Apologia: This is a bit inside-baseball, but as quite a few people have asked me what’s the full skinny on why I moved my blog from WIRED, I thought it be...

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How to Place Rose Petals on Your Lover’s Skin (& Write About Science)

Posted on April 24, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Guardian and the Wellcome Trust have been holding a science-writing prize contest lately, and to accompany it The Guardian has been running a superb series ...

Books/Culture

Three Questions for Jonah Lehrer

Posted on February 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Jonah Lehrer was one of the first writers I befriended as I went into science writing. I did so before he published his first book. We became friends, blogged b...

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The Atlantic, Scientology, and the Theft of Credibility

Posted on January 16, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Scien...

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Don’t Step in That Sh*t: How the GMO-Study Authors Played the Media

Posted on September 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Last week a small group of scientists and journalists signed a secret pact to do a bad, bad, really bad thing to science, journalism, and everyone that depends ...

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Why the Longform Boom? It’s the Data, Stupid

Posted on February 24, 2012 by David Dobbs / 8 Comments

Over at Forbes, Lewis DVorkin, who once ran big bits of AOL, has written a fine smart post on the boom in longform stories on the web. The longform surge, both ...

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Rebecca Skloot on Writing HeLa, Structure, & Her Own Younger Self

Posted on November 22, 2011 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

When I first read Rebecca Skloot’s’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks last February, I, like millions of others who have read it, found myself en...

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Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing

Posted on October 4, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today’s a good day:  The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American S...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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