The Birth of Childhood
That's the title of a fascinating, four-page story in the current Science by my partner on the journal's anthropology beat, Ann Gibbons. The…
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Hillary for Secretary of State?
Sigh, yawn... oh gosh, some people don't realize how much pressure there is on us bloggers . We have to have a passionate, edgy opinion on absolu…
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Bail out G.M. workers, let the company go bankrupt
General Motors is begging for a bailout , and Barack Obama and his transition team are asking the Bush administration and Congress to supply it. Tom …
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Zapped out
This blog, not to mention the entire world, has been so fixated on politics lately that we have forgotten some of the most important things in life--…
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Sarah Palin in 2012!
I can't believe how much the television media are talking about this. Great idea! Who better to energize that incredible shrinking Republican bas…
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Note to my fellow leftists: Put up or pipe down (alternative title: Don't Moan, Organize)
I'm shocked--shocked!--to find out that Barack Obama is not a radical leftist. Why didn't someone tell me this before I voted for him? I feel…
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America elects first Muslim socialist terrorist as president
He's a Muslim, possibly an Arab. He wasn't really born in America. He pals around with terrorists. He's a socialist who wants to spread t…
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Why I'm not blogging the election
Because it's already over. I'll be back soon, on the other side of history. Update (11:48 PM) : Wow. Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, C…
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A 12,000 year old shaman burial?
Today on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW , I report on a spectacular archaeological find in Israel. A team led by Leore Grosman of …
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Obama's grandma, RIP
It's incredibly sad that Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham , has not lived to see her grandson elected president of the United Stat…
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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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