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
(for ELG) My dad, who served as an MP in Okinawa just after the war, had strong views on inter-racial dating, because of all the mixed-race babies he saw there, half-breed bastards, he called them, rejected by the Okinawans, and ignored by the American GIs who’d fathered them. As his teenaged son in the […]
In the beginning, it was an ordinary house on an ordinary street in Flushing, Queens, just around the corner from ours. There was an older girl, Mary Ann, who was our sometime babysitter, and a younger boy, Johnny, who was several years older than I. A cherished childhood memory of mine concerns an afternoon (though […]
As I approached Astoria Park, I was struck by a wave of incongruities. It was a gorgeous day—the trees lush with leaves, a nascent summer sun beaming from a clear blue sky—but I had to keep it at a distance. I wore a mask for protection from the pandemic, which still loomed despite it being […]
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