12 years ago, David Rohde and his interpreter, Tahir Luddin, were kidnapped by the Taliban. After 7 months, Tahir helped them escape. He's now a US citizen. For months, David Rohde has been trying to help him bring his wife and children to the U.S. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

For the The New Yorker, I profiled Kim Stanley Robinson, whose book “The Ministry for the Future” offers a timeline for how we’ll fight climate change over the next thirty years. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Science fiction can help expand our understanding by pushing the limits of what is possible. b-gat.es/3rtrhij

What’s it really like inside our cells? Read James Somers on the goopy, crowded, vibrating worlds within us, which we now know are governed by a collection of “unintuitive physical laws.” newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

“Looking is about giving yourself time to feel”: a beautiful piece on how to scroll your camera roll and find the masterpiece photos you’ve taken but ignored. newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

How can you take better family photos? How can you better appreciate the photos you have? If you take photos of your family, you'll love this piece, which combines decades of practical wisdom with a tour of family photography through the decades. newyorker.com/culture/annals…

This is almost too much to process, but very important to do so newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Are you the same person you've always been? Or have you changed dramatically through life? As I learned while writing this piece for The New Yorker, people have strong, divergent views about this question! newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

In this week’s issue of the The New Yorker, I write about my expedition to Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica with an extraordinary group of scientists. It’s a long read at 7,500 words, filled w/unbelievably cool people doing hard work at one of the most forbidding places on Earth. 1/🧵

Yes yes yes, thank you Joshua Rothman !! Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy newyorker.com/books/joshua-r… via The New Yorker

Ted Chiang has the best way to think about ChatGPT: newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

In the The New Yorker, I profiled Geoff Hinton, the “godfather of A.I.” He's a thoughtful, rational, emotional, humane, and very “human” genius—and he’s worried about what A.I. might become. “It started as one thing, and it’s become something else.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

David Attenborough is now narrating my life Here's a GPT-4-vision + ElevenLabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

I will never recover from this student email.

I owe my career at The New Yorker to Michael Agger, who accepted a pitch from me more than a decade ago when I was just starting to make my way in journalism. He’s been a wonderful mentor and friend ever since, and is one of the best editors in the business.

Profiling Dan Dennett was one of the peak experiences of my life. It wasn't just that his thinking changed mine, but that he was an inspiring human being, full of curiosity, vitality, and creativity. We should all try to be a little more like Dan. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…

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My son was born seven years ago. In the years since then, I've discovered that our family pediatrician is an extraordinary individual—a person who's responded to unspeakable tragedy in the most inspiring way possible. For The New Yorker, I profiled him: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…