I am an award-winning science and technology journalist, editor, author and producer. I am a Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Businessweek contributor. Other recent articles have appeared in Science Magazine, SciAm.com, and U.S. News and World Report. I also blog about neuroscience for the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, and have covered the intersection of science and the arts, including reviews of plays, operas, and art and museum exhibits for ScienceFriday.com. My two documentaries for public television are about the impact of technology on society––one is on women and computing, the other about elearning.
Twitter handle: @KarenAFrenkel
Mid-morning, I set out for a short walk—ten blocks, twice a day, prescribed for my aging heart and arthritic body. I clear the lobby and make my entrance on to 106th Street. I’m ready to start my hike to health, ready to laugh—or at least snicker—in the face of mortality. I take my first step, […]
How many years since “needle park”? In the late 60’s, in the evening on the way to the 72nd St and Broadway subway station, I would make my pass through the park and see junkies nodding out and discarded needles on the pavement. The underbelly of con artists, thieves, prostitutes, and addicts, all lurking in the […]
When I stopped dating him twenty years ago, I never imagined he’d end up living up the street from me. We were two twenty-something Brooklynites having cocktails somewhere near Broadway and Lafayette, sometime in the late 90s, when I told him that the date we were on, our third, would be our last. He stared […]
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