Writing a book about THE TIME for Spiegel & Grau. Words have been in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York, GQ, and more. Former Ideas Editor at Time.
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@RDEIL Hi Richard, I'm Nate—a journalist who is working on a book about civil timekeeping, including the history of GPS. I tried to contact you via the GPS Declassified site, but I'm getting an error message. Could you send me a personal email address, perhaps via direct message?
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In my first piece for @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the man keeping Ukraine's time—an act that requires perpetual care—in a city that has been relentlessly bombed for years. theatlantic.com/internationa…
@ImmortanJo3 Hi Joe. I'm reporting an article about Ukrainian time. Would you be up for talking with me? You can DM me here, or you can email me at natehopper.reports@gmail.com.
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Rest in peace, David Mills—"an iconic element of the early Internet," as Vint Cerf has described him. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024…
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My profile of him, and what he made, is here: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
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"When Christmas came in 2021, 5.5 million fewer [American] children were living in poverty than had been the previous Christmas." nybooks.com/articles/2024/01…
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For anyone who was charmed by the portrayal of I. I. Rabi in "Oppenheimer," and made curious about his own discoveries and the era of physics the film depicts, I'd recommend this two-part New Yorker profile of him from 1975: newyorker.com/magazine/1975/… & newyorker.com/magazine/1975/…
"I need to stop making friends, so I can outlive all the people I care about, and who care about me. And then I can just drop dead. But I have to stop finding new people to like." gq.com/story/dave-matthews-p…
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“We’re going to have a million acre-foot of water covering up an area that feeds the world.”
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“We think of ourselves as this little bubble of obsessions and memories going on in our head that’s detached from everything else. That’s the wound.” emergencemagazine.org/interv…
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"Researchers for Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts found that the median price of a new drug was around $180,000 in 2021, up from $2,100 in 2008." nytimes.com/2023/02/07/healt…
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Hannah is so incredibly sharp and thoughtful—and just an absolute joy to work with. I'm also pretty sure the rules are that her tweeting this makes it officially a fact: time is nuts.
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For @NewYorker, I wrote a long piece about the “jolly old elf” largely responsible for how the time is synchronized across the Internet—including the clock in the corner of your computer screen—and a fascinating power struggle that's been taking shape: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…
Sparing a thought to all the confused naked mole rats and whales out there, telling their friends they've been talking to ghosts and hearing phantom babbling nytimes.com/2022/08/30/scien…
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"A legal theory constructed on historical foundations doesn’t work if jurists aren’t well-versed in history. Otherwise, originalism becomes an unserious game of cherry-picking examples — a political outcome in search of a supporting argument."
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"Of the 249 companies that promised not to fund the 147 senators and representatives who voted against any of the [election] results, fewer than half have stuck to their promise"
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"The [U.S.], a country that leads the world in spending on medical research, also stands out for its dismal outcomes in people with mental illnesses. ... even as the government invested billions... by some measures, those outcomes have deteriorated." nytimes.com/2022/02/22/us/th…
"The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look." nytimes.com/2022/02/16/books…