I edit about half the new episodes we make at the show.
This past year that’s included stories about emergency-room medicine, artificial intelligence, the electoral college, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, angler fish, caterpillars, crickets and whether or not technology will save civilization from destroying itself. I also edited themed shows that fact-checked allegedly wise old sayings and puzzled over the pros and cons of growth — I reported a story about the Fibonacci sequence for this one. And most recently I edited and co-produced a five-episode “week of sharks” series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws. I’m currently developing an experimental live show with our hosts, senior producer Matt Kielty, and a variety of artistic collaborators, that will premier at the amphitheater at Little Island in New York City in August, and getting started on some reporting projects.
I’ve edited nearly 70 episodes of the show since 2020; a complete list is here.
In 2019 I hosted and produced G, a series of episodes on the concept of intelligence:
In 2018 I edited and co-produced Gonads, a series w/ Molly Webster. Here are a few episodes:
From 2009-2014 I was a staff producer at the show. I was one of the lead producers on Words, an episode about the power of language, which won a Peabody Award in 2010. Here are several of the stories I reported and produced: