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Christopher Cox

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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I was on KPFA this morning, talking about transformers: kpfa.org/player/?audi...
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's a profile that goes to some strange places — I hope you'll read it: www.vanityfair.com/story/the-wi...
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The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1 Billion In Debt
VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Kiyosaki’s life story is both bizarre and oddly familiar, intersecting frequently with what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk”: atomic bomb tests, tsunamis, helicopter crashes, the EST movement, the Branch Davidians cult, and the bizarro futurist R. Buckminster Fuller."
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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...
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The 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?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My latest article for the Times Magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/m...
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The 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.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
terrific caper story by Nathaniel Rich — drawn from research for his novel Cloud Thief which comes out tomorrow: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...
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How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Matthew Power award. I can’t wait to read these stories. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wrote about how the eugenics debate was masking a simpler reality: these tests just aren’t that reliable. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Can You Really Choose Your ‘Best Baby’?
Silicon Valley-backed companies are selling $50,000 genetic tests to anxious parents, despite shaky science.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social , my last as an editor for New York, is worth your time.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
If 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...
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Amaryllis (Air De Louis XIII) - Duo-Art 62746
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Writers! 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...
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Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award - NYU Journalism
Matthew Power was an award-winning journalist who reported empathetically on the human […]
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If Caleb — a most discerning reader — is linking to it, it has to be good.
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Longreads @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 Magazine
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What 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.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Thanks, Adam!
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I’ve got just the story for you: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I 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...
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I 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...
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What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Wells Tower wrote about lost luggage, just in time for Lost Luggage Day: www.thecut.com/article/wher...
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Your Lost Suitcase Is Probably in Alabama
We found your bag! And everyone else’s lost luggage.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary
As 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?
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
this is a masterpiece @kerryhowley.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary
As 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?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Well this is a big one: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary
As 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?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
English words that are like German words (information-dense and literal): brainchild, plaything, fireplace.
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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...
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Good News About Beech Leaf Disease
The city’s forests may be in trouble, but scientists have developed some ingenious ways to save them.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Language 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?
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
(Regarding this news: www.reuters.com/business/hea...)
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US cancels more than $700 million funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine
The Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna for the late-stage development of its bird flu vaccine for humans, as well as the right to purchase shots, the drugmaker announced on Wednesday.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Wrote this about bird flu preparedness back in February. nymag.com/intelligence...
Highlighted text reads: The Biden administration also invested $766 million in the development of mRNA vaccines for pandemic flu. “If the strain changes,” O’Connell said, “we would want to stay ahead of what’s currently circulating, and mRNA lets you do that a little easier.”Highlighted text reads: It turns out that not interfering with the vaccine-approval process is another one of those norms that, like not renaming the Gulf of Mexico, we have scant ability to enforce.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Second one is multiflora rose, a very successful invasive
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The Daily Dhow
A dhow sailing on the open ocean.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Uh oh
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hi, good question! The fact that it hasn’t yet suggests no, but pigs do have the right receptors for h5n1 to infect them, so it might just be a matter of time. Here’s a relevant bit from the story.
Screenshot of the article with this text: The virus won't replicate into a desert indefinitely. In Worobey and Nelson's paper, they write, somewhat cryptically, "The continued absence of H5N1 in U.S. swine is highly fortunate." I asked Worobey to explain what that meant. Pigs, he said, "have both receptor types throughout their respiratory tract and therefore could conceivably be a much, much better place for the evolution of something that could become successful."
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
If you want to get deeper into receptor-land, this paper is great: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
You made it through the hemagglutinin section!
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Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This 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...
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Can Anything Stop Bird Flu?
The longer we allow the virus to run rampant through animal populations, the greater our chances of disaster.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
David Macaulay did the illustrations for this story. As someone who grew up reading The Way Things Work, this was a special thrill.
Illustration of the respiratory tract of a man breathing in flu virus, the virus mutating, and the man coughing out mutated virus.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I wrote about bird flu and Robert Kennedy. nymag.com/intelligence...
A screen shot of a paragraph from the story with the text: “During the first Trump administration, when Alex Azar had Kennedy’s job, he said, “The secretary of HHS has a shocking amount of power by the stroke of a pen.” We may be about to find out how true that statement is. Offit thinks it’s likely that Kennedy will either eliminate committees like his — cutting off one path for dissent — or fill them with like-minded people. He could hold up the approval of new vaccines and refer existing ones for additional study. There may be few checks on his ability to do so. “In a normal world, you would have people at the FDA and CDC who would say, ‘No, sorry, that’s not going to happen,’” Offit said. “But we don’t live in that world. We live in a world full of sycophants who are just there to rubber stamp whatever it is they’re told to do.” It turns out that not interfering with the vaccine-approval process is another one of those norms that, like not renaming the Gulf of Mexico, we have scant ability to enforce.”
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Deadline to apply is Wednesday. Writers, it’s not too late!
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Meryl Streep did WHAT.
My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit. Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What’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...
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‘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.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s like found poetry, but of course it wasn’t found; it was composed. Anyway, here’s the book if you too want to read 550 pages on warblers. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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The Warbler Guide
A field guide that revolutionizes warbler identification
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Golden-winged warbler Golden wings are all the Buzz, but soon fall from favor Louisiana Waterthrush To get to LA, go slowly down south, where they slur words, chat endlessly
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Cerulean warbler After I climb the steps to the fashion show my cerulean suit creates a buzz Black-and-white warbler Parade of 7 or 8 black-and-white carts, all with uneven squeaky wheels Common Yellowthroat Only in Wichita do common folk wear yellow bow ties on their throats
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Blackpoll warbler Pollsters, in black of night, knock softly, steadily, but have to get louder, louder Black-throated Blue warbler Very laaaaaazzzzzzzzy and spoiled, in blue smoking jacket, black ascot Canada warbler Each Canadian is very different; but the first one has a chip on his shoulder
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My 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.”
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Full Hinton interview: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...
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S.E. Hinton Leans on Dave Barry for Post-Election Comfort (Gift Article)
“You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Fun fact, I’ve only read The Outsiders in German and for an embarrassingly long time I thought Hinton wrote it in German.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
S.E. Hinton: I have had many strange things happen in my life. New York Times: Thank you, no follow-up question.
Q: How do you organize your books?
A: I have a beautiful library, organized by subjects: History (early to late), Author Biographies, Exploring, Women's Studies, Journalism, Entertainment, English Fiction, American Fiction and Children's Books. The Paranormal books are organized by Ghosts and Hauntings, Reincarnation, Coincidences,
Strange but True.
Q: Why so many books on the paranormal?
A: I have had many strange things happen in my life.
Q: Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).
A: Any time, on the sofa, with good lighting, my cat and a small glass of wine.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sorry
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I realize this is a bad social media post. But Bluesky seems like a safe space for such things.
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Christopher Cox @cwhe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Number 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?
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