Ellen Ruppel Shell

Ellen Ruppel Shell is a professor and science journalist who teaches at Boston University. She is the author most recently of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. More

Atlantic contributing editor Ellen Ruppel Shell teaches at Boston University, where she co-directs the Graduate Program in Science Journalism. She writes on science, medicine, the media, economics, and sometimes even sports and the arts, and tends to focus on the underlying cultural and societal implications. She is the author most recently of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.

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Issue July/August 2009

Buy to Last

Magazine July/August 2009

New World Syndrome

Magazine June 2001

Spam and turkey tails have turned Micronesians into Macronesians. A case study of how fatty Western plenty is taking a disastrous toll on people in developing countries

Could Mad-Cow Disease Happen Here?

Magazine September 1998

Britain's horrifying experience taught us a few things, but perhaps not enough to preclude an outbreak of our own

Malaria: Resurgence of a Deadly Disease

Magazine August 1997

Malaria kills roughly twice as many people worldwide as AIDS, drugs no longer work against some strains, and mosquitoes in diverse parts of the United States now carry the disease.

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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