14
Nov
A market for animal clones
Cloning feels like an easy extension for those looking to traffic "exotic" animals and create Breeding businesses.
3 min read
Tucker Legerski
Tucker is a writer, researcher, fact-checker, and health equity advocate. I was born and raised in the Rocky Mountain trifecta of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. I use he/him pronouns.
10
Nov
Populism can be more than one thing
Technology has changed media & journalism — torn its legacy distribution and business model to smithereens. However, excellent and impactful work still gets made everyday.
4 min read
10
Nov
Finding my mom on the internet
It's important to archive and protect history on the internet. Especially when few recordings exists.
4 min read
08
Nov
What IVF taught me about political possibility
We had embryos, not children. But in the eyes of the Alabamian judges, those five-days-of- growth cells were, actually, children.
9 min read
21
Sep
The covid origin debate continues — back to the market
A recent study in Cell, using this precious data collected by China's CDC in Jan 2020, argues that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market is indeed the site that kicked off of the pandemic, and changed our lives.
2 min read
02
Sep
After English, you learn everything else
As much as I wish, I have not made a living with poetry and long form travel essays (yet), but I’ve done lots of other jobs that give me money
6 min read
11
Aug
Going Ham and great food writing
Musician Hamish Hawk, Hannah Goldfield's brilliant food writing; and an excellent piece of journalism on the migration crisis.
3 min read
10
Aug
Tom Scocca's health — editing is a skill
This 6K word piece highlights that thin line between security and insecurity and how health breaks that wall in an instant, or a slow constant yank.
3 min read
08
Aug
An IVF Resource Guide
I wanted to put together a resource guide for IVF. A set of reading, watching, and listening resources. I also wanted to share this because IVF, along with all reproductive and sexual health, are on the ballot in November.
8 min read
31
Jul
Why Wolverine and the henchmen dilemma
It truly felt like Hugh Jackman earnestly playing costume, and made me more aware of what I was truly watching. I respect the undertaking of making this film, and am saddened to how weighted down the creativity and the culture is by these type of films. I can't really escape their gravity, either.
5 min read