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Journalist and author @nytimes @natgeo @corememory @retractionwatch
Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2008
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Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.
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I've been storing this one for quite a while!
We now officially supply chemically pure grade methane in California with our partner @westairgases. Photos are with our first externalized six pack during the spring.
An insane amount of hard work went into making this happen. I try not to think too much about the blood sweat and tears of the last five years but this milestone makes it particularly sweet.
westairgases.com/news/terraf…
Terraform is hiring! If you're an ambitious technically minded savant, Terraform is an incredible place to get exposed to every aspect of building a hardware business from sales and hiring to design test and analysis!
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Let's move up the Kardashev scale, shall we?
Our (terrific) piece on @reflectorbital and their plans to harness sunlight corememory.com/p/shiny-happy…
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loved this piece, by @ev_rat in @BW wrestling with the novel legal questions posed by so called AI agents bloomberg.com/features/2026-… (gift link!)
"The people of San Francisco were quickly dubbed spiritually LinkedIn, unbearably cringe, totally sociopathic, and our biggest sin of all: we are ugly, so ugly . . . that we are doomed to die alone because we could not be more repulsive." corememory.com/p/san-francis…
Not The Boring Company.
"Their machine was the size of a school bus. It rested half-in, half-out of the ground like a whale’s back, a riotous beast of the deep now warming in the Illinois sun."
I'm hooked, @geoffmanaugh. Halfway through . . .
Stoked to have new fiction out about two brothers in rural Illinois who build a tunneling machine from abandoned farm equipment, then set off together under the Mississippi. Part Mark Twain, part Jules Verne—the Wright Brothers of the American underground. nautilus.plotter.cc
Just a friendly reminder that Jason Arday fabricated his “interviews” in a 2018 study and then crafted a misleading correction to conceal this when he was called out on it five years later. retractionwatch.com/2026/07/…
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Exclusive: A third patient death emerges from China's opaque clinical trials — this time in CAR-T.
endpoints.news/exclusive-thi…
"A Buddhist proverb says that when a wise man points at the moon, the fool stares at his finger." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
A bizarre surgery to treat Alzheimer's has set off a "frenzy" in China. Now, the doctor who invented has been detained by authorities and nobody knows why. Quite the story from @ElieDolgin nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
There were already many reasons to doubt Jason Arday’s claim of persevering over nonverbal autism, including pretty much all of the legitimate research on the subject.
Now, we have a man claiming to be a former elementary school classmate, referring to Arday as “Chatty Patty.”
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fyi if anyone ever launched a website to track Retraction Watch's retractions, it could be called Retraction Watch Retraction Watch
Yes, you do have time for one more Jason Arday article . . . this one won't disappoint.
Sociologist Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge University after being accused of rampant fraud.
Now his very inspiring memoir is about to come out from Simon & Schuster, and it's already an Editor's Pick on Amazon!
This won't end well:
theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this.
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Yikes...
Once again, child dies in gene editing trial in China, rekindling debate on transparency and safety statnews.com/2026/08/05/chin… via @Jasonmmast and Brian Yang
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Journalists should be able to ask professors tough questions about their research. Here's my account of why I decided to look into Professor Arday last summer timeshighereducation.com/opi…
If someone died by suicide during a study that Arday didn't have ethical approval for that would be a big deal. But one wonders if that anecdote is even true. thetimes.com/article/0d48918…
I can confirm from my own reporting that this was reported to Cambridge and Durham earlier this year and nothing happened.
