Jeanne Lenzer (2006-07) has been getting all sorts of attention for her new book “The Danger Within Us: America’s Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man’s Battle to Survive It.” You can hear her on NPR’s “Fresh Air“; read her scary essay “Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?” in The New York Times; and […]
This Year’s Fellows: Ehsan Masood
During his nine-month fellowship, Masood intends to track down every living Harvard and MIT scientist persecuted under McCarthyism; many have never publicly told their stories.
This Year’s Fellows: Kolawole Talabi
In northern Nigeria, thousands have died in conflicts between farmers and livestock herders, “and it’s a crisis I felt I needed to do something about.”
This Year’s Fellows: Jane Qiu
She didn’t start out as a journalist. She has a doctorate in cancer genetics. So how did she come to write about grasslands in Tibet? It had to do with a newspaper and a former inmate.
Calestous Juma: An Appreciation
The death this week of Calestous Juma, a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was marked by testaments to his boundless generosity. That extended to journalists like me.
A Lively Discussion, Even for KSJ: Edmond Awad on His ‘Moral Machine’
The MIT Media Lab scholar describes a video game in which driverless cars develop a conscience. Knight Science fellows aren’t so sure about the rules.