Chris Amico

Cauliflower ear is a collection of destroyed blood vessels and puss -- and every combat athlete wants one. More →

Reporter Sandra Fish was escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy after being told the GOP chairman doesn’t like her reporting More →

CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote an important analysis last week about journalists who have been killed by Israeli forces in the the Gaza war. Citing figures from the Committee to Protect Jour… More →

I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we … More →

CBS News Prime Time anchor John Dickerson, who has covered eight presidential candidates in his career as a political journalist, gave the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at Harvard Kennedy School on February 5, 2024. The following is... More →

Follow the path of the April 2024 solar eclipse. More →

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I've transformed my git commit process by using an AI to automatically generate meaningful messages. This setup involves a nifty integration of the llm CLI and git hooks, saving me time. Now I can fuck off while the robots document my commits More →

A conversation with Jonathan M. Katz More →

WTF is Ecological Dynamics? When you first step into our gym, you might notice something different. There's an energy, a buzz of activity that feels more like a playground than a traditional martial arts dojo. This is because, five years ago, we... More →

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens. More →

New York City is home to more threatened languages than anywhere else. One project set out to document them. More →

New documents from the VICE bankruptcy proceedings tell a tale as old as digital media. More →

The station, a member of the NPR network, acquired DCist in 2018. It now has four journalists, down from 14 last year. More →

Photos by Michael Piazza Jen Burt is reviving a long-forgotten Worcester heirloom, and it’s a big deal. Dare we say “mammoth”? The Worcester Mammoth Horticulture Bean is large compared to other local bean varieties, and is said to be known for its... More →

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No one gets into this business because they love filling out forms. Here’s how we could reduce them. More →

I wrote an op-ed for NJ.com and the Star-Ledger in New Jersey proposing that the soon-empty Bell Labs should become a Museum and School of the Internet.... More →

The U.N. wants to protect 30 percent of the planet. Many of the areas it counts towards that goal are small and oddly shaped. Can contorted shapes save nature? More →