Sasha von Oldershausen
News and Politics Reporter at Texas Monthly
News & politics reporter @texasmonthly. Words in @nytimes, @believermag, @theatlantic, @harpers, @oxfordamerican 2020/21 @center4fiction fellow
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Sasha von Oldershausen
For someone with aspirations to live to 180, Dave Asprey’s time is carefully budgeted. At his three-day biohacking conference, held in Austin in May, Asprey’s PR team granted me eight minutes to interview him, so I knew I had to make them count.
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3 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Sasha von Oldershausen
At the turn of the twenty-first century, measles, a highly contagious respiratory illness, was declared eliminated from the United States, thanks to herd immunity achieved through a critical mass of vaccination. Yet at the beginning of this year, Katherine Wells, the public health director for the city and county of Lubbock, found herself in the midst of a measles resurgence.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Sasha von Oldershausen
Rice farmer LG Raun peered skyward through his windshield, engrossed in the gray-blue clouds agitating overhead. “Even if they say it’s going to rain, I usually wait for it to start raining before I shut the water wells down,” he explained. It was early spring, and we were touring his fields in El Campo, where he’d recently applied herbicides to his nascent crop, visible only as small spires of green jutting from the soil.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Sasha von Oldershausen
Hurricane Harvey, the category 4 storm that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2017, made landfall on a Friday night. By Saturday night, torrential rainfall engulfed the Texas coast, and League City, where the National Weather Service’s Houston/Galveston forecast office is located, was right near ground zero.
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Jan 9, 2025 |
texasmonthly.com | Sasha von Oldershausen
I was 25 when I learned to drive. Growing up in New York, I’d never had any reason to pick it up. Then I moved to the border town of Presidio—population 3,226—where public transportation was nonexistent, taxis were a faraway notion, and the meaning of “close by” was anyone’s guess. So I bought my first car, a Chevrolet Aveo hatchback that friends would henceforth refer to as the “golf cart.”Far West Texas is the best place to learn to drive, and the worst.
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Trust in the medical establishment is at an all-time low. Alternative health movements (raw milk, MAHA) are culturally ascendant. I tried to make sense of it all at the place with all the answers: Dave Asprey's biohacking conference @TexasMonthly https://t.co/PJySZWBKrv
At Dave Asprey's biohacking conference, held in Austin this May, I had one question for the man who has aspirations to live to 180: "Why would you ever want to live that long?" @TexasMonthly https://t.co/PJySZWBcBX
"Measles shows up first because it’s the most contagious. But with these lower vaccine rates, do you start seeing more mumps cases and more rubella? Do you get polio again?" For @TexasMonthly I spoke with Lubbock's top health official about measles https://t.co/5resTkgBiw