Erik Vance
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Erik Vance is a science writer native to the Bay Area replanted in Mexico City as a non-native invasive. Like many in his field, he couldn't really hack it as a scientist and now works as a professional groupie. That said, "science groupie" is just the best job he can imagine, especially in Mexico. His work often focuses on interesting characters and has appeared in lots of places that he won't list here - to avoid looking like he's bragging. He often claims the m-dash is superior to the comma but secretly he just wishes the semicolon would come back into fashion.

Guest Post: Confession of a Climate Coward

I recently learned that my colleagues think I am a coward. And even more recently, I learned that I might agree with them. It all began in 2007. That was a magic year for science writers. That was the year the IPCC released its crushing assessment on climate change, just after the surprise hit of […]

The Mix-Up that Ended the World

The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán is not the biggest monument you can imagine. In fact, it’s dwarfed by the hills around it that it is meant to reflect. It’s cut into four levels, each of which is about the same as a couple flights of stair in a New York apartment building. But […]

TGIPF: Sex When You Can’t Hang On

The fifth in the occasional series, Thank God It’s Penis Friday. In the winter of 1996, I was inducted into the research team at Marine World Africa USA’s Marine Research Center like everybody else – with a clipboard. On it was a list of dolphin behaviors that I would spend the next three months watching. […]