Zapping their Brains at Home
The New York Times | July 22, 2016
Consumer Neurotechnology: New Products, More Regulatory Complexity
The Neuroethics Blog | June 14, 2016
At Tribeca, 'Vaxxed' Gets Axed and Science Wins, for Now
Undark | March 27, 2016
Dialing up Your Brainpower: How should we regulate those mind-zapping gadgets that promise to boost your memory?
Slate | December 18, 2015
The New York Times | July 22, 2016
Consumer Neurotechnology: New Products, More Regulatory Complexity
The Neuroethics Blog | June 14, 2016
At Tribeca, 'Vaxxed' Gets Axed and Science Wins, for Now
Undark | March 27, 2016
Dialing up Your Brainpower: How should we regulate those mind-zapping gadgets that promise to boost your memory?
Slate | December 18, 2015
science
From 2008-2012, I worked as a Tel Aviv-based freelance science writer and editor. I produced a magazine about the brain, Gray Matters, for the Hebrew University. I wrote and edited for numerous publications and universities, including the Hebrew University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, IDC Herzliya, University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University, CogniFit, 18, and others.
For samples of my science writing, see the feature I did for the 2011 issue of Scopus magazine, profiling eleven scientists working on environmental and sustainability issues at Hebrew University (pdf); a piece on green tea and the brain for Technion's Focus magazine; and my article (pdf) about the Bronstein twins, two scientists who have revolutionized facial recognition technology, for the Spring 2010 issue of 18 magazine. |
travel
My piece about seal hunting in Greenland was published in the September 2012 issue of Overnight Buses and anthologized in The Best Travel Writing, Vol. 9 (2012). Another travel essay, detailing how I accidentally became President of the Jury at Serbia's World Testicle Cooking Championship was published in Best Women's Travel Writing 2011.
In the winter/spring of 2012, I blogged weekly for the travel website Vagablogging. My travel writing has been published in magazines (Maxim, 18, Glimpse, Budget Travel, Mir Afishu), books (Best Women's Travel Writing 2011, A Stingray Bit My Nipple: True Stories from Real Travelers, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure) and online (WGBH Lab, TelAvivCity.com, hotels.vc, Glimpse Online). Technology Review (Sep/Oct 2012) issue, MIT alumni profile: "Storyteller and Brain Researcher Explores the Unorthodox"
Article in Science ("At Science Journalism Confab, Arab-Israeli Tensions Caused Disruptions") about my appearance at the 2011 World Conference of Science Journalists in Qatar Jerusalem Post piece ("Immigrant Anna Wexler: Unexpected Symbol of Israel") about the same event |
other
"A Crucial Choice" - StoryCollider storytelling performance at the Oberon Theater in Cambridge, MA on December 12, 2013.
A personal essay about my journey to make the documentary film Unorthodox, published in Unpious in late 2011: "From Rebel Teenager to Off-the-Derech Filmmaker" "Revivalism" - 18 magazine article (pdf) about the Yiddish revival in Israel, Spring 2010. In 2008 I maintained a blog for the WGBH Lab on documentary filmmaking. |