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Haley S. Weiss

Writing

a few of the highlights

What Nuclear War Means for the Ocean

Lactose Tolerance Is an Evolutionary Puzzle

Dark Extinction Has Scientists Worried. Here's What They're Doing About It.

Millipedes Have Been Living a Lie

How a Wellness MLM Brand Spawned a ‘Parasite’ Detox Trend

Alexandra Hunt was a stripper during college. Now she’s running for Congress.

Nurse's Viral TikTok Persuades People to Get Vaccinated

Unfortunately, Some Cicadas Taste Like Nature’s Gushers

The Brain-Eating Amoeba Is a Nearly Perfect Killer

The Atlantic

Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

Scientific American

Ice Sheets Are Eroded by “Upside-down Rivers”

This Is What Happens When You Drunkenly Swallow a Live Catfish

How a Huge Blood Clot Took the Shape of a Lung Passage

Editing

Rosa Smith and the Gender Politics of 19th-Century Ichthyological Discovery

Decades After Forced Sterilization, Native American Women in the US Still Face Rejection and Retraumatization in Healthcare

How 19th Century "Harlot Wards" Scrutinized Women's Bodies in the Name of Public Health

Other Stuff

I've appeared on programs including WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher and "Newsy Tonight" with Chance Seales to discuss stories I've reported.

The Atlantic app

For more than a year, I worked as a daily writer and curator for the Atlantic’s written-through iOS app, which won a 2021 Shorty Award.

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