Nieman Storyboard
April 19, 2017
One Great Sentence: Félix Fénéon
Slate
December 16, 2012
Lexicon Valley - Good Is Up
In this podcast, Mike Vuolo & co. explore how Lakoff and Johnson’s theories illuminate the persistence of the “fiscal cliff” metaphor, with contributions from yours truly
The Independent
October 14, 2012
The wit of the wise
Where would we be without aphorisms?
Nieman Reports
Fall 2012
Waving, Not Drowning
Thoughts on The Future of The Magazine
The Guardian
June 30, 2011
Worn-out words
Expressions that have become such cliches that they have lost all meaning — including the use of 'literally' to mean 'metaphorically'
SETI Institute
May 23, 2011
Metaphor and Science
From string theory to the greenhouse effect — how metaphor sheds light on science. Discover why your brain is like a rain forest (that's a simile!)
Macmillan Dictionary
April 11, 2011
Metaphors in mind
Schott’s Vocab
February 8, 2011
Metaphor, A Taxonomy
The Observer
February 6, 2011
Ideas for modern living: metaphor
Life constantly shows us ways to use metaphor literally
The Takeaway
January 12, 2011
The Misinterpretation of Metaphors
The impact of metaphors in political rhetoric and imagery
Popular Science
I was a freelance writer for PopSci during 2007-2010.
Cell Phones and Cancer
May 17, 2010
The Interphone study finds no increase in risk but the long-term effects of prolonged cell phone use require further study and will spark fresh controversy
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Big Picture Science
December 19, 2010
Skeptic Check: Cell Phone Danger
Business Matters
November 10th, 2010
Are Cell Phones Dangerous?
On The Media
May 21, 2010
Cell Phone Study Provides Few Answers
How can one study produce so many conflicting reports?
Disconnected
March 2010
Your cell phone does not in itself cause cancer. But in the daily sea of radiation we all travel, there may be subtler dangers at work
Who Protects the Internet?
April 2009
Pull up the wrong undersea cable and the Internet goes dark in Berlin or Dubai. Meet the people who stand guard over the World Wide Web
Podcast: Who Protects the Internet?
March 18, 2009
A podcast of PopSci's Cocktail Party Science, in which host Chuck Cage discusses protecting the Internet with Deputy Editor Jake Ward and James Geary
The Litvinenko Assassination
June 2007
Move over weapons of mass destruction; make way for targeted nuclear terrorism
This article appears in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
Electrum
December 16, 2010
Soft Countries Make Soft Men
Q&A with Mike Newell, director of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
The Takeaway
March 2, 2010
Telling a Story Through Numbers
Are telling the numbers the best way to tell a news story?
Forbes.com
August 2009
Sudden Wisdom
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage—no other type of writing does so much with so little
The Takeaway
October 8, 2008
Political campaigns and the war of witty words
The Takeaway talks with James Geary about political aphorisms
The Observer
July 13, 2008
I, Robot
Although we've always been a bionic species, says James Geary, we're now blurring the line between man and machine like never before
Time Out - London
March 12–18, 2008
Slogan’s Run
Those pithy little sayings that capture universal truths in a nutshell
BBC Radio 4
October 21, 2007
Broadcasting House
A modest proposal for funding the BBC...
The Huffington Post
October 2, 2007
There Is an Aphorism for Everything
The Huffington Post
September 29, 2007
If It’s Good Enough for Gordon, It’s Good Enough for Me
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown can choose his moment for the next election; oh why, oh why can't I...?
Salon
July 2, 2007
Bomb plot tests British again
New Prime Minister Gordon Brown edges away from Tony Blair and the Iraq war as the U.K. braces against the rising terror threat
Salon
June 29, 2007
Tony Blair’s toodle-oo
If the British people really do want less spin and more substance from their prime minister, then Gordon Brown could be the man to deliver it
The Huffington Post
June 2007
The RoboCup 2007 robotic soccer championship
Dylan Evans' utopia experiment in Scotland
BBC Radio 4
April 15, 2007
Broadcasting House
More on Britain’s relationship to the tabloid press...
BBC Radio 4
December 3, 2006
Broadcasting House
On the tabloid press and British impertinence toward authority...
The British Journalism Review
Vol. 17, No. 1, 2006, pages 41-44
In praise of the tabs (sort of) — Why I (kind of) like the British tabloid press...
James Joyce Quarterly
Fall 1999 / Winter 2000, Vol. 37, No. 1 / 2, pp. 287–290
Review - De Invloed van Joyce op Sterne, by Peter de Voogd
James Joyce Quarterly
Summer 1999, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 1014–1017
Review - Fighting the Waves: The Music of George Antheil, Ensemble Modern
James Joyce Quarterly
Fall 1996 / Winter 1997, Vol. 34, No. 1 / 2, pp. 201–206
Review - Ulysses, by James Joyce, translated into Flemish by Paul Claes and Mon Nys
James Joyce Quarterly
Winter 1996, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 305–310
Review - The Verbal Empires of Simon Vestdijk and James Joyce, by E.M. Beekman
New Scientist
13 April 1996
Saving the Sounds of Silence
James Geary rants and raves about peace and quiet
Erewhon
Vol II No 2 1995
My translation from the Dutch of Rabbit, Run by Jan Stavinoha, pp. 25-28
My translation from the Dutch of Family Secret by Stephan Sanders, pp. 33-35
Het Parool
1993
My translation from the Dutch of 221b Bakerstreet, a poster by Waldo Bien
Helix
1992
An interview with Sir John Maddox (1925–2009)
Here's a review of Helix, from Nature Vol 365 7 Oct 1993 pp. 570-571