Carrie Arnold

2 months ago | noemamag.com | Carrie Arnold

Credits Carrie Arnold is a contributing writer for Noema based in Virginia. The parenting manuals warned Elaine Perlman about the usual adolescent foibles. She had braced herself for piercings and purple hair, questionable friend choices and what she might say if she found drugs in any pockets. Not that her teenage son had raised any major concerns. Abie Rohrig was shy and kind, the sort of kid teachers describe as a delight to have in class. Abie had big ideas and the ambition to go after them.

Jan 23, 2025 | popularmechanics.com | Carrie Arnold

With a small click, Jshon Thomas connected himself to his life support. It was the last step in an hour-long process involving hundreds of steps that Thomas completed with the precision of an airline pilot prepping for a transcontinental flight.

Jan 9, 2025 | aliciapatterson.org | Rania Abouzeid |Carrie Arnold |Josh Fine |Andrew Green

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2025 Fellowship Winners “The Past is Always Present: From the Killing Fields of Iraq to the Search for Solutions to Climate Change in Europe” “When Public Health Crises Collide: Kidney Disease, Dialysis and the Coming Climate Disaster” “How Gulf Money is Transforming Sports” “As the U.S. Retreats from Global HIV Aid, Does It Owe Life-Long Medicines to Those It Saved?” “The Challenges of Delivering Quality Early Education: One Center’s Odyssey” “Migrant Abuses...

Oct 23, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Carrie Arnold

Sometimes, what my seven-year-old tabby cat Ophelia wants is obvious. Yodeling in front of her empty food bowl at dinnertime clearly indicates she’s at risk of imminent starvation. Other times, though, her meows are a complete and total mystery. That’s where Sergei Dreizin and Mark Boyes, computer scientists at Akvelon, a software engineering company based in Bellevue, Washington, say they can help.

Oct 21, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Carrie Arnold

For over a decade, Vittoria Brambilla has been trying to improve crops’ quality, yields, and nutritional value. But the botany researcher at the University of Milan feared her studies might never see the light of day. Her initial problems were not scientific but political. Italian farmers had long sought a variety of short-grained arborio rice that was resistant to blast, a devastating fungal plant pathogen that destroys enough rice globally to feed 60 million people each year.