Freelance Writing since 1989

• More than 160 published works covering general biology, molecular biology, medicine, earth science, technology, astronomy, and more. Articles for children, the general public, physicians and professional scientists, appearing in print, on CD-ROM, and on the world wide web.
  
• A selection of freelance article titles by subject
• I have turned my book, The Language of Animals, into a web site: The Animal Communication Project. The ACP includes the full text of the book as well as dozens of news items from 2003 to the present.

For the Web
and Radio

• NASA Astrobiology Magazine
• OnHealth
  • Food and Cancer: Making Sense of the Studies 03/12/99
    Health Challenges of International Adoption 01/12/99
    Prostate Cancer What are your options? 11/06/98
    OnHealth was purchased by WebMD and these articles are no longer available
• American Society for Cell Biology Press Book 1999
• ABCNEWS.com, the online outlet for ABC News
  • 11/97 - 1/98, full-time Associate Producer (health and medicine writer)
    Complete list of my ABCNEWS.com articles
• Scripts for MicrobeWorld
  • In 2002, I wrote five scripts for MicrobeWorld, by FLPI, a short radio spot produced for the American Society for Microbiology: Evidence for life on Mars, left, aired 02 05 03.
    The following links download and play a RealPlayer file:
    A toxin-munching microbe (03 11 03),
    Thermus aquaticus (01 30 03),
    How squid glow in the dark (02 21 03).

Life on Mars,
with Kathie Thomas-Keprta

Magazine Features and News

• For the general public:
  Discover
  21st C
       After the Nobel, the fractional quantum reportorial effect
       Overtures to a new discipline: neuromusicology
  SCIaS - Science Asahi Magazine (Japan)
  Health News
• For students and scientists
  BioScience
       Producing a great textbook with the help of a developmental editor
       Research Update: AIBS ’96: Ants and their fungal favorites, Classifications a      click away?, Prairie parasite, Sniffing to separate species, Modeling face      recognition
  Environmental Health Perspectives
       FHIT Gene and Cancer
  Environmental Science and Technology
  Science News
  The Scientist
  
• For middle-school students
  Science World
  Current Science
  
• For physicians
  Patient Care
  Journal of Critical Care Nutrition
  Family Practice (Canada)
  

Chapters, Captions and Labels

• Time-Life Books, Time-Life for Children, Reader’s Digest Books
     Chapters and features for more than a dozen books
  
• Earth Explorer: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of the Environment
     text on Ocean Currents and Ocean Life
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium - Labels for special exhibit on reproduction