Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China


2024. Asimov Press. DOI:10.62211/81bp-06ft

Chinese scientists discovered artemisinin in 1971 as part of a secret military project that merged Eastern and Western medicine

Selected by The Syllabus as “Best Journalism” of the week.




Neuroscience Towards an Awe-Inspiring Spatial Design


2019. Conscious Cities Anthology 2019: Science-Informed Architecture and Urbanism. DOI:10.33797/CCA19.01.19
Design guidelines informed by the neuroaesthetics of awe




Primordial Vision: 02021


2021. ecodao.
On seeing before categorization





Unpublished




Making Sense of Icy Times: Early Cold War Science in Alaska and the Founding Years of Arctic Research Laboratory


2023. Undergraduate Thesis

Cold War polar imaginations, scientific practice in extreme environments, and how two biologists studied frozen life

Winner of Horace H. Wilson ’25 Senior Thesis Prize in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Princeton University.




Hybrid Times, Hybrid Natures

2022.

Mammoth de-extinction, history of catastrophic thinking, and the new nature-technology relationship




Playing and Collecting Universal Histories


2022.

On the shape of historical knowledge from a Victorian board game



Forward, to the New Arctic Sublime


2022.
What happened to the Arctic sublime in the late 19th century?