SLATE // APRIL, 2016
Comcast and others are using more contract workers to install their services. That means brutal hours, low wages, and an app that schedules every moment of their days.
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NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE // FEBRUARY, 2016
Our daughter started life on a feeding tube. Then we tried to wean her off it — and began to understand the complexity of how children relate to food.
SELF // JULY 2015
Clean has become the new thin as women obsess about the energy and health boost they feel by getting rid of toxins and fighting inflammation with food. Its popularity is easy to understand — what’s hard …
BUZZFEED // MARCH, 2015
I’d always been self-conscious about my abdomen. When I got endometriosis, everyone else became conscious of it too.
MARIE CLAIRE // AUGUST, 2014
Are BMI charts a load of BS? New research shows that good health may have nothing to do with your body mass index.
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE // JULY 7, 2013
At a venerable roadside attraction in the shadow of Disney World, an endangered species is practicing the old secrets of the deep.
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