The nicest and truest thing I can say about Heatmap News is also the most petty: I'm jealous of pretty much everything they write. Excellent and, moreover, fascinating publication. Credit to Nico Lauricella, Robinson Meyer, Emily Pontecorvo, Matthew Zeitlin and the whole team.

Happy Birthday Heatmap, thank you readers, contributors, and subscribers! heatmap.news/heatmap-turns-1

And in conclusion of this week, I’m re-subscribing to NYMag and think every hiring manager running a culture section should be scrambling to figure out who put together this month’s issue. Bless.

“‘I think it's fair to tell you…I'm sitting in my own home that is a certified passive house and has the plaque that is almost identical to the plaque they have in the show, so it's a little too close to home,” she said. “Be kind in your reporting.’” heatmap.news/culture/the-cu…

Edie Dillman and her architect husband live in New Mexico’s first certified passive house.

They founded a company that makes prefab panels for energy efficient homes, including passive homes

I talked to her about The Curse heatmap.news/culture/the-cu…

'All this renewable energy will need new transmission capacity to meaningfully affect the carbon intensity of electricity generation in the United States,' writes Matthew Zeitlin.

Renewables have a big year ahead:

heatmap.news/climate/renewa…

fascinating essay by a fantasy novelist who, after a traumatic brain injury, could no longer write fiction, but also was cured of her anxiety disorder

Briefly emerging from maternity leave to share this amazing essay from novelist Kelly Barnhill about recovering from traumatic brain injury: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

“There was no going back for me. I had a renewed vigor,” Lynndrick Holmes told danielalamasmd. “If sickle cell was going to take my life, it was going to take it inch by inch. I wasn’t going to give it willingly.” nytimes.com/2023/10/30/opi…

Violence against health workers in the E.R. and hospitals continues to rise, a disturbing trend that will eventually affect everyone. I wrote about this for New York Times Opinion The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/10/24/opi…

'What has stayed with me most is not the near miss of a thrown computer or a slur a patient used but a medical student saying to me after he witnessed a violent episode, 'I learned today that I don’t want to go into emergency medicine.'” nytimes.com/2023/10/24/opi…

'To my brother, our father was no longer the person he once was. To me, he was still the same person, just a changed one.' nytimes.com/2023/10/23/opi…

Doctors and Patients Face Impossible Choices in Gaza.

At this fearful time, I appeal to all who have the power to make decisions that affect the health and well-being of so many people to choose the way of hope.

There is still time.

My piece in The New York Times:…

'trust is a two-way street. Restoring it will require careful and perhaps even painful self-scrutiny on the part of those institutions to learn why they lost the confidence of so many Americans during the past four years.' nytimes.com/2023/10/03/opi…

'Just ask your local pharmacist about over-the-counter drugs he or she suspects don’t work.'

'How can an ineffective drug discovered nearly 100 years ago and marketed since the 1930s still be on the market, despite decades of drug experts like us prodding the F.D.A. to do something?' nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opi…

The GREATEST news!

Incredibly happy and honored to receive this National Association of Science Writers (NASW) award for my piece on #mpox .
Thanks to Alexandra Sifferlin for asking me to write it and editing it.
Huge congrats to all the winners and finalists, especially my KSJ at MIT colleagues Madeline Ostrander and Ashley Smart.