At the Terezin concentration camp, in former Czechoslovakia, child drawings and writings survived the Holocaust
Bedřich Fritta /Wikimedia Commons TEREZIN--It is a custom for visitors wandering the thicket of tombstones in Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery to p…
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Afghanistan vet Ricky Nelson found solace in archaeology from his injuries and his PTSD. But his dreams were dashed and he felt forced to give them up. Now he is gone. Here is his story.
Ricky Nelson (photo courtesy of Derek Miltimore) Last August 30, Ricky Nelson, an Afghanistan veteran who had tried to find comfort from PTSD and war…
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A Park Bench in Paris
Photo: Wikimedia Commons One morning in the 1870s, the Irish writer George Moore went for a walk in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris. "I threw …
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Venice in Winter: A tribute to my old muse, Jan Morris
In winter the fog settles over Venice, seeping into every crevice and circling the colonnades with chilly fingers. The tourists have fled, leaving th…
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A guide to my reporting on alleged misconduct by UC Santa Barbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin [Updated Aug 10, 2022]
Some readers have noted that they are confused trying to follow all of my reporting about University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danie…
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Archaeologist accused of misconduct seeks to force reporter to name victims and witnesses
Promise made, promise broken Last June, University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin sued me for defamation for a series o…
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The Franki Aymond story. Did betrayal by Ohio State University lead a gifted young physicist to end her life?
Franki Aymond (Courtesy of Rex Aymond) On February 22, 2019, Frances "Franki" Aymond took her own life with an overdose of opioids. She was…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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