Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I was on KPFA this morning, talking about transformers: kpfa.org/player/?audi...kpfa.orgPlayer | KPFA 000
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"He’s styled himself as an investor of unusual savvy. He brags about real estate, oil wells, gold mines, Wagyu beef: 'I don’t kill the cattle,' he tells me. 'I sell the semen. So there’s cash flow and semen flow.'" www.vanityfair.com/story/the-wi...vanityfair.comThe Wild Origins of ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’Robert Kiyosaki says he’s more than a billion dollars in debt. Didn’t he read his own book? 100
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My latest article for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...nytimes.comThe Blackout That Could Devastate America (Gift Article)The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years. 032
Reposted by Christopher CoxPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026terrific caper story by Nathaniel Rich — drawn from research for his novel Cloud Thief which comes out tomorrow: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...nytimes.comHow a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center HeistThe world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen. 0174
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Matthew Power award. I can’t wait to read these stories. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p... 012
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I wrote about how the eugenics debate was masking a simpler reality: these tests just aren’t that reliable. nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comCan You Really Choose Your ‘Best Baby’?Silicon Valley-backed companies are selling $50,000 genetic tests to anxious parents, despite shaky science. 010
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social , my last as an editor for New York, is worth your time. 010
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 30/12/2025If you like the song Zojirushi rice cookers play when the rice is ready, here is a Spotify link of Robert Armbruster performing it: open.spotify.com/track/5xlQks...open.spotify.comAmaryllis (Air De Louis XIII) - Duo-Art 62746 010
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Writers! Applications for the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award are open. This year, we've increased the prize to $15,000 to account for the higher cost of pasta. Apply now: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...journalism.nyu.eduMatthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU JournalismMatthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […] 03319
Reposted by Christopher CoxLongreads @longreads.com · 30/07/2025"The Sacagawea found in the oral histories of the Hidatsas is both grander and humbler — more like a person, less like a symbol — than the one taught in schools." — @cwhe.bsky.social for The New York Times Magazinenytimes.comWhat if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?A growing body of evidence suggests she might have survived into old age — which would entirely change the story of America’s most iconic Native forebear. 074
Reposted by Christopher CoxChristopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I wrote about Sacagawea and the Hidatsa tribe, which has marshaled some compelling evidence that she lived 57 years longer than mainstream historians say she did. (And died of a gunshot wound.) This story also has my favorite final paragraph I've ever written. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...nytimes.comWhat if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong? 032
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I wrote about Sacagawea and the Hidatsa tribe, which has marshaled some compelling evidence that she lived 57 years longer than mainstream historians say she did. (And died of a gunshot wound.) This story also has my favorite final paragraph I've ever written. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...nytimes.comWhat if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong? 032
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Wells Tower wrote about lost luggage, just in time for Lost Luggage Day: www.thecut.com/article/wher...thecut.comYour Lost Suitcase Is Probably in AlabamaWe found your bag! And everyone else’s lost luggage. 010
Reposted by Christopher CoxReyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 13/06/2025this is a masterpiece @kerryhowley.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comPete Hegseth Is Playing SecretaryAs he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him? 1265
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Well this is a big one: nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comPete Hegseth Is Playing SecretaryAs he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by him? 0134
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025English words that are like German words (information-dense and literal): brainchild, plaything, fireplace. 020
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025"'I got into forestry to get away from people,' he said. Now he is working in the biggest city in the country." Robert Sullivan upending some conventional wisdom about forests and forestry. www.curbed.com/article/beec...curbed.comGood News About Beech Leaf DiseaseThe city’s forests may be in trouble, but scientists have developed some ingenious ways to save them. 030
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Language question: Is the use of “search up” (instead of “look up” or “search for”) confined to Gen Alpha or does Gen Z use it as well? 000
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Wrote this about bird flu preparedness back in February. nymag.com/intelligence... 100
Reposted by Christopher CoxBill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This article from @cwhe.bsky.social is a great depiction of the state of H5N1 in US cows, and how we got here. Closing line "The only thing keeping us safe, for now, is the virus itself" nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comCan Anything Stop Bird Flu?The longer we allow the virus to run rampant through animal populations, the greater our chances of disaster. 12014
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I wrote about bird flu and Robert Kennedy. nymag.com/intelligence... 255
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Deadline to apply is Wednesday. Writers, it’s not too late! 02612
Reposted by Christopher CoxMichael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Meryl Streep did WHAT. 472439454
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025What’s it’s like to be the only home standing in a neighborhood that burned: “I don’t ever want to see my house again. It’s a toxic-waste dump. My community is gone. It’s just a curse that my house is there.” nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.com‘My Community Is Gone. It’s Just a Curse That My House Is There.’City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll rebuild. 010
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025My wife got me a book on how to identify warblers by their songs, and each entry has a phrase to help you remember the rhythm of each bird’s call. The Colima warbler’s phrase is: “A colander of lima beans, dripping quickly and evenly, then dumped out.” 150
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024S.E. Hinton: I have had many strange things happen in my life. New York Times: Thank you, no follow-up question. 192
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Number games: 2025 is the last time the square root of the year will be an integer until 2116. The last time it happened was 1936. Those turning 45 next year will share an honor with those turning 44 in 1936 or 46 in 2116. The 1936 cohort is dead. Will anyone from the 2025 group be alive in 2116? 43510
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024An early reminder to apply for the Matthew Power award, which provides $12,500 to support a longform journalism project. Deadline is February 19: journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awa...journalism.nyu.eduMatthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU JournalismMatthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […] 04637
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024In his By the Book interview this week, Billy Collins says he began copying other primates and peeling bananas from the bottom. I tried this for a while, and I have to say, the chimps are wrong on this one. 1191
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 11/10/2024One more detail from the Schuyler interview: He says Edward Gorey (!) once told Frank O’Hara he would be murdered on the waterfront and Schuyler’s assessment was, Well, Gorey couldn’t have been more wrong. (O’Hara died on the beach, of vehicular homicide.) www.theparisreview.org/miscellaneou...theparisreview.orgNot Enough about Frank: A Visit with James SchuylerFrom left, Frank O’Hara, John Button, Schuyler, and Joe LeSueur, ca. 1960. © Estate of John Button, courtesy of CLAMP, New York. James Schuyler was born in Chicago in 1923, grew up in Washi... 030
Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 01/12/2023This passage from Charles Duhigg’s OpenAI piece in the New Yorker is striking. Compare to Tesla, where engineers wanted to name their self-driving AI Copilot but Musk overruled them. 110