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
One afternoon this summer I was on the subway. All was normal. Well, except that we are in a pandemic, which makes venturing down into NYC’s netherworld — one with poor ventilation and tons of non-mask wearers – feel like I am putting my life in my overly sanitized hands. It all seemed surreal. The […]
I was only five, but I knew my mom and dad were in court that day fighting over custody rights. The rainy gray outside—plus the turmoil of yelling and crying, nighttime stirrings, and mornings waking up in different rooms or houses or cars, and not understanding what was going on or where exactly was home—had […]
I was scrolling through Twitter after midnight a couple of weeks ago when I read that the photographer and New York personality Ricky Powell had died. The news hit me because as kids we’d spent a lot of time together at the 14th Street Y in afterschool programs. Biddy Basketball and Sportsman’s Clinic, and the […]
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