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
Flushing Ave. on the M The train stops and the doors open, except one door panel is cut out (locked closed, to prevent it from opening). A tall, skinny, black dude on the platform tries to board the train and, wham! He walks right into the closed panel. He steps back and catches his breath. “Whoa…,” just […]
In the early 1960s, as a recently married City College professor the closest I’d come to the Mafia was in movies and newspaper articles. Back then, New York City was rocked by Mafia scandals as investigations revealed that the police and other municipal unions were cooperating with mobsters in numbers rackets, loan sharking, business shakedowns, […]
In the midst of a particularly grueling winter, I met Wren on OK Cupid. Unlike my slim, brown-skinned fiancé who had deserted me the week before Christmas, Wren was bulky, with a ruddy complexion and pale blue eyes like my father’s. The day after my third date with Wren, my father died of congestive heart […]
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