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"The History of the Vitruvian Man" (The Huffington Post, February 16, 2012)
A brief slideshow focusing on the precedents for Leonardo's iconic image.

"The Other Vitruvian Man" (Smithsonian Magazine, February 2012)
Did Leonardo have help when he drew his famous image of a man in a circle and a square?

"Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius of Everything (Except Deadlines)" (London Times, Saturday Review, October 29, 2011)
Essay on Leonardo in Milan, in anticipation of the opening of a Da Vinci exhibit at the National Gallery, in London.
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“How America Got Its Name” (Boston Globe, July 4, 2010)
Essay on Matthias Ringmann, the obscure scholar who coined the name America 

“The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World” (Smithsonian, December, 2009)
The story of the map that named America
 
“The Map That Changed the World” (BBC Magazine, October 28, 2009)
Story of the Waldseemüller map of 1507, the map that gave America its name
 
“A World Redrawn” (Boston Globe, October 11, 2009)
How the map that named America also helped Copernicus rethink the nature of the cosmos
 
“Armchair Travelers” (American Scholar, Fall, 2009)
Adventures in literary geography, with Petrarch and Boccaccio
 
“Map Quest” (The Atlantic, January-February, 2007)
A journey to Alsace-Lorraine, the birthplace of the name America
 
“Notes from Antiquity” (The Atlantic, November, 2002)
A profile of a scholar trying to reconstruct ancient Greek music
 
“Oh Gods” (Cover story, The Atlantic, February, 2002)
A survey of the sociology of new religious movements
 
“The Reinvention of Privacy” (Cover story, The Atlantic, March, 2001)
New businesses and technologies may help improve privacy, not erode it
Anthologized in The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2001

Author Interview, (The Atlantic Online, May 2000)
George Saunders, Pastoralia
 
Author Interview, (The Atlantic Online, March 2000)
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
 
“The Money Artist” (The Atlantic, July, 1999)
A review of Boggs: A Comedy of Values, by Lawrence Weschler
 
“What is the Koran?" (Cover story, The Atlantic, January 1999)
A report on the world of revisionist Koranic scholarship
Finalist, Livingston Award for Young Journalists, 1999

 “New-Alphabet Disease?” (The Atlantic, July 1997)
A dispatch from on Azerbaijan on the country’s efforts to change alphabets
Finalist, Livingston Award for Young Journalists, 1997

“Secondhand Music” (The Atlantic, April 1997)
A lighthearted musing on the chance harmonies created by the machines used in daily life
Featured on the radio program This American Life