Articles by Eve Zelickson
15 articles found.
Grave Goods
The possessions of the passed
Last month I called my grandma hoping to plan a trip up to Gladstone, Michigan to visit her for Easter. At …
Week in Strange Competition
Fighting for Fitness When it comes to national security threats, you’ve heard of North Korea, you’ve heard of Russia’s troll farms, …
Week in Bad Role Models
Don’t Drink & Drone The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had until September 30, 2015 to establish comprehensive rules for the use …
Week in Post-Apocalypse
A Fizzling Housing Market Like a specter haunting Middle America, the remnants of Cold War industry are making for a strange …
Week in Unresolved Cases
Iditaroids The walls of my boyhood room, once decorated with Sports Illustrated Kids centerfolds of Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, …
Week in the Home of the Whopper
Burger Kremlin? Step aside, loyalty cards. Cryptocurrencies are set to revolutionize reward programs by enabling trading of one’s accumulated assets online. …
Week in Lifestyle Improvement
Aw Shucks Since when has keeping up with the internet age meant automating oyster consumption? I don’t know. But apparently it …
Small Town Saint
Not much to see, but what you hear makes up for it
The sky over Downtown Escanaba is the same color as the sidewalk: a perfect match, so that whether you walk with …
Week in Our Art Has Failed Us
ON THE ROCKS Last week, French performance artist Abraham Poincheval took up residence inside a rock for seven days at Paris’ …
The Limits of Probation
Alternatives to jail time in an age of mass incarceration
Rhode Island has 23,000 people on probation. That is 2,793 people per 100,000 residents, the second highest probation rate in the …
Week in Election Prep
DUMB-SHINE STATE If there is anything we’ve learned to expect from a presidential election year, it is that Florida will inevitably …
From Science to Society
A word with Michelle Nijhuis
Michelle Nijhuis is an award-winning science journalist whose pieces, which have been featured in the New Yorker and National Geographic, offer …
Week in Creeps
FRIGHT NIGHT Children of the night and survivors of the early aughts emo phase, take heart. Instead of sitting on your …
Week in the Singularity
FREEZE FRAME For those of you who still get your news from alt weeklies, you may not have heard the iPhone …
STEM Sells
Pinkification in Science Marketing
Tim Hunt, the English biochemist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology, stood in front of a room packed with …