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Christiane Amanpour Lecture 2020
On the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of reporting on it.
TED talk
The animal world is full of mind-bending parasites, which hack the brains and behaviour of their hosts. Meet the wasps that walks cockroaches, the worm that makes crickets suicidal, and the creature that turns rats into cat-seeking missiles.
Joint Talks
Ed has done several joint talks with his wife Liz Neeley including at: Yale; the University of Washington; the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of Wisconsin.
More interviews
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ed appeared on:
MSNBC’s Morning Joe, All In with Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show
CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN Tonight, Reliable Sources and New Day
NPR’s Short Wave, Code Switch, On Point, All Things Considered, Fresh Air, WAMU 1A, WBEZ Reset, KUOW The Record, KERA Think, KCRW’s Press Play, and more.
Democracy Now, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, BBC Newshour, MPR with Kerri Miller
Podcasts including Crooked Media’s What A Day, and Slates’ What Next.
He has given talks at Harvard, Salt Lake Community College, and Cooper Union.
His work was profiled by CNN, Poynter, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
He talked to the Longform podcast about his reporting—twice!
Other appearances from the Before Times include:
Rebalancing The Ecosystem Of 'The Microbes Within Us'--Ed talks to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air about his book I Contain Multitudes. You can also listen to more interviews on BBC 5Live Afternoon Edition, the New York Times Book Review podcast, o Generation Anthropocene, the Geoff Lloyd Show on Absolute Radio, CBC Quirks and Quarks, and more.
Radiolab: Cellmates--Ed talks to Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad about the idea that complex life emerged through a unique merger between two ancient microbes.
Ed has also regularly appeared on Science Friday to talk about everything from cancer immunotherapy to electric eels, and on KCRW's On the Point to talk about the bacteria in our guts and a new species of ancient human.
Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism—an EconTalk episode on reproducibility in science
A talk at the Royal Instutition about I Contain Multitudes
On journalism, science writing and my career—a conversation as part of New York University’s Inside/Out series