Here’s what I wrote for New Scientist in June:
First article (web, assigned, 500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17271-japanese-probe-set-to-crash-into-moon.html
First article of my own initiative (web, 500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17278-junk-food-gives-crow-chicks-a-weight-problem.html
First interactive piece(1200 words and some video/HTML editing):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17341-explore-how-climate-change-might-affect-the-us.html
First bylined print article (400 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227133.900-health-clues-found-in-big-tobaccos-files.html
First story turned around in one day (500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html
First physics article (500 words):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17381-magnetic-superatoms-promise-tuneable-materials.html
Magazine briefs, not bylined:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227125.400-sweet-spray-opens-termites-up-for-attack.html
300 words
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227124.200-cause-of-hudson-plane-crash-confirmed.html
150 words
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227145.600-chicken-feathers-could-make-cheap-hydrogen-store.html
250 words (>60 comments!)
Total to beat in July~4200 words.
Tags: Journalism, New Scientist, Portfolio, WritingTake pity on the poor Space Beast…let these sounds soothe its many hearts.
Google books has now archived every issue of that gold standard of journalism, the Weekly World News. Here’s June 30th, 1981.
Tags: Sound-A-DayGot my music makin’s up and running this weekend. Here’s the start of a new one…may turn into something more, may not.

Light painting in Alberta, Canada last summer.
It’s been a long time since I posted, but I’m finally set up again, living in San Francisco now, working at New Scientist magazine. In addition to more sounds and beats, I will be posting occasional science pieces as I complete them. Here’s one to start, a climate change map for the US based on the recently released government synthesis report.
Click the yellow marker to get started:
View Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States in a larger map
To San Francisco. Will not be posting for the next week or so, but prepare for more auditory experiments once I get set up again.
Pick your player…
Vimeo:
Lindquist Lab Documentary from Main Sequence on Vimeo.
Or techTV:
Coffee, Vinz? Yes, have some.
Tags: Sound-A-DayGettin’ all Enya on ya…
Tags: Sound-A-DayA layered double-bass with LFO’d filters and feedbacked delays…
Tags: Sound-A-Day