The Big List of Things I’ve Written

a.k.a. My CV and Portfolio

Travel

Go to the Fun Countries - The Strange Continent

The Top 10 Party Cities in the Middle East

Here’s What It Feels Like to Cliff-Dive With a Paralyzing Fear of Heights

So… What’s Next?

Alone in Nairobi

No One Hears You Shouting From the Slums of Mombasa - The Strange Continent

Cabin Fever in Cotton Country

Missing: One Gray Canvas Trenchcoat

Freedom Comes When You Quit Faking

Do NOT Quit Your Job. DO Your Job.

History

Fear and Loathing in World History

A Sumerian Walks Into a Bar...

There Is No Yesterday

Time's Orphans Have Names

How Real Aliens Killed Sci-Fi For Me - The Strange Continent

From "One Goat" to "The Number One" - The Strange Continent

Ancient Mesopotamians: The True Original Gangstas

How Flawed Memories Teach Us What's True

The "Gypsies" Aren't Who You Think They Are

The Insanity That Keeps Us Sane

Across the Aegean - The Strange Continent

Alexander: The Great Who Wasn't (Quite) Greek

The Most Haunting Scene I Can Imagine

Culture

The Lure of the Abyss - The Strange Continent

The Fascination of the Abomination - The Strange Continent

How I learned from my sister that standardized tests have nothing to do with real life.

The Big Bang

James Needham's "Bathroom Selfie" Painting Continues a 40,000-Year Artistic Tradition - The Strange…

A Cemetery of the Living

In Praise of Roleplay

When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn まじめ

Do We Have a Right Not to Face Our Triggers?

Some Songs Just Can't Be Heard

How Flawed Memories Teach Us What's True

9 Books to Read by Age 30 - The Strange Continent

The Revenant Is a Movie About Man

Be Proud To Be Wrong

What Folding Chairs Taught Me About Skepticism

Here There Be Dianogas

You're Not Supposed To Be Here

Science

A Disease of Scienceyness

The above article sparked a week-long controversy on social media about the state of popular science fandom. Here’s some press coverage from Nature.com about the debate— and here’s an interview with me about it.

Lessons from 'Living Cadavers' - The Crux

The Man Who Tried to Weigh the Soul - The Crux

Meet the Parasites That Control Human Brains - The Crux

Welcome to the Mind-Meld: Our Future of Brain-to-Brain Communication - The Crux

We're Pretty Much All Tripping, All the Time

Revenge of the Lizard Brain

How Our Brains Process Books

Oliver Sacks Shares Tales of Musical Hallucinations

Brain-Wide Map of "Neural Highways" Is First of Its Kind

The More Complex Our Brains, the More Different They Get

Public Dialogue About Mental Health

The Search for a Nobel Prize-Winning Synapse Machine

The Limits of Fight-or-Flight Training - The Crux

What's So Special about Mirror Neurons?

Meaning on the Brain: How Your Mind Organizes Reality

A Seemingly Insane Idea That Actually Struck Gold

Are the Brains of Introverts and Extroverts Actually Different? - The Crux

The Haunters of the Machine

I Got Robbed at Gunpoint... If My Memory Serves Correctly

Gods, Selves, and Schizophrenic Brains

Brains of Autistic Children Are Surprisingly Hyper-Connected - D-brief

The Neuroscience Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced

What's Individuality, and Where Does It Come From?

Why Brain-Mapping Efforts Matter - Even If They Don t Succeed

Creativity

Brilliance on Dinosaur Island

Become a Mad Genius in Two Simple Steps

The Beating Heart of Creativity

How I Learned to Stop Humblebragging and Love the Work

How to Make Your Practice Pay Off

How To Stop Your Mind From Working Too Hard

Business

4 Startup Skills I’ve Learned From Real-Time Strategy Games

3 Rookie Business Mistakes That Scream “Unprofessional!”

Fiction

The Cradle and the Sword
A sweeping historical epic set in ancient Mesopotamia

The Excavation
Read aloud on the Pseudopod podcast

The Man With the Myriad Scars
Published in Weird Tales, November-December 2008 issue. Here’s a very nice article that someone wrote about it.

Cormac’s Mirror
Published in the 2008 anthology Bound For Evil

The Menagerie
Published in the 2008 anthology Cthulhu Unbound

While I’m at it, I’ll also mention that I my neuroscience news brand,
The Connectome, has a breaking news website, a SoundCloud podcast, a YouTube channel, and a few thousand fans on Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus. If you want to learn more about the mysteries of your brain (and, I mean, who doesn’t, really) you should check that stuff out.

I spent a year in Turkey, where I made this documentary about the anti-government protests there — and what happened after them.

I’ve given talks at Northeastern University and TEDxAJU. Those were a long time ago. I don’t look like that anymore.

Even longer ago than that, I was the editor-in-chief of a neo-Victorian art and fiction magazine called The Willows — which I created and launched myself, and ran with a very capable team of artists and editors.

Wow — you actually made it all the way down here! Not many make it this far, so I must commend your fortitude. Thank you for reading!