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Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

A Conversation With Kam Quarles, Agricultural Policy Executive

A Conversation With Kam Quarles, Agricultural Policy Executive

The latest installment in our ongoing series of exchanges with experts on the subjects of health, design, food, travel, and sustainability… More »

A Conversation With Sandy Rosenthal, Founder of Levees.org

A Conversation With Sandy Rosenthal, Founder of Levees.org

The latest installment in our ongoing series of exchanges with experts on the subjects of health, design, food, travel, and sustainability… More »

11,000 Students Enter California Schools Without Required Vaccines

11,000 Students Enter California Schools Without Required Vaccines

Despite an outbreak of whooping cough last year, more parents are using a personal belief exemption to get out of vaccinating children… More »

Your Addiction to Wheat Products Is Making You Fat and Unhealthy

Your Addiction to Wheat Products Is Making You Fat and Unhealthy

After having his patients cut wheat from their diets completely, Dr. William Davis says, they lost weight and showed improved clarity… More »

A Conversation With Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme

A Conversation With Jonathan Wolfson, CEO of Solazyme

The latest installment in our ongoing series of exchanges with experts on the subjects of health, design, food, travel, and sustainability… More »

Design Meets Charity: International Artists Join Nike to Fight Poverty

Design Meets Charity: International Artists Join Nike to Fight Poverty

The Nike Foundation commissioned a set of pieces for the World Bank's annual meeting to raise awareness about its charity, Girl Effect… More »

The No. 1 Reason Americans Are Getting Fatter: We're Not Smoking

The No. 1 Reason Americans Are Getting Fatter: We're Not Smoking

A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the declining use of cigarettes explains our obesity rates… More »

A Conversation With Pierre-Yves Cousteau, Conservationist

A Conversation With Pierre-Yves Cousteau, Conservationist

The latest installment in our ongoing series of exchanges with experts on the subjects of health, design, food, travel, and sustainability… More »

A Conversation With Jena Moreno, Journalist and Filmmaker

A Conversation With Jena Moreno, Journalist and Filmmaker

The latest installment in our ongoing series of exchanges with experts on the subjects of health, design, food, travel, and sustainability… More »

Tom Fields-Meyer on Gumby, Otters, and Raising an Autistic Son

Tom Fields-Meyer on Gumby, Otters, and Raising an Autistic Son

With the release of his new book, Following Ezra, long-time writer Fields-Meyer shares his experiences as the father of an autistic child… More »

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Wistia's Headquarters

Where Ideas Come From: Inside Wistia's Headquarters

Chris Savage started Wistia, a 10-person startup in Somerville, with the goal of building the best online video management system… More »

Infographic: Protect Yourself From the Threat of Mobile Malware

Infographic: Protect Yourself From the Threat of Mobile Malware

Some real dangers of malware: Private information is captured, phone data is deleted, or your device is 'bricked' and needs replacing… More »

Picture of the Day: Voyager's View of Earth From 7.25 Million Miles

Picture of the Day: Voyager's View of Earth From 7.25 Million Miles

On September 18, 1977, Voyager snapped this image, the first ever taken by a spacecraft that shows both the Earth and Moon as crescents… More »

Use a Send-Only Email Client to Increase Productivity at Work

Use a Send-Only Email Client to Increase Productivity at Work

Whenever I go to send a new email at work, I'm distracted by any messages that have come in since I last opened my client. Responding to messages as they come in can be terribly distracting; it would be much more efficient if I could answer several notes at once. There must be a better way of handling email in the workplace.… More »

Infographic: The Gender Wars Come to the Mobile Ads Market

Infographic: The Gender Wars Come to the Mobile Ads Market

New information suggests we might soon see more ads geared towards men on Android devices and apps made specifically for Android… More »

What Happens When AOL Finally Decides to Go Private?

What Happens When AOL Finally Decides to Go Private?

Outside the watchful gaze of shareholders, AOL's many divisions will probably be broken apart and sold off as scraps… More »

Picture of the Day: Ophir Chasma in Mars's Valles Marineris

Picture of the Day: Ophir Chasma in Mars's Valles Marineris

Valles Marineris is an enormous canyon system formed by erosion that cuts more than 3,100 miles through the surface of Mars… More »

Infographic: Google's 102 Acquisitions Over the Last 11 Years

Infographic: Google's 102 Acquisitions Over the Last 11 Years

The acquisition of Motorola for $12.5 billion last week is Google's biggest. But it's not the only big spending the search giant has done.… More »

Picture of the Day: Daybreak at Mars's Gale Crater

Picture of the Day: Daybreak at Mars's Gale Crater

This image was computer generated using three-dimensional information provided by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter… More »

If You Own Any Apple Devices, Download Find My iPhone Now

If You Own Any Apple Devices, Download Find My iPhone Now

Thankfully, I haven't lost one of my smartphones or had one stolen -- yet. But I worry that I might: They're not cheap, of course, and I've been hearing from more and more friends and acquaintances who are misplacing them and can't get them back. What sort of precautions should I take?… More »

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