My mother was a journalist, who wrote for American newspapers and magazines when I was growing up (she interviewed Marilyn Monroe, Walt Disney, James Stewart, and Henry Miller, among many others), and so I guess it’s in my blood. In any case, I was editor of my high school newspaper, and then wrote for the Harvard Crimson during the turbulent 1960s. Following a summer internship in 1968 at Science magazine, I was asked to turn one of the articles that I had written – on steam-powered automobiles – into a book, and, after graduating and moving to Sweden in 1970, I have continued to dabble in journalism as a sideline to my academic writing. Just let me know if you’d like a copy of any of these articles and I’d be happy to send them to you. I have reprints of most of them, as I have for my academic articles, and, for the Swedish newspaper articles, there are copies of both the English and Swedish versions on my computer.
These are some of my earlier pieces:
How Sweden Tackles Pollution, New Scientist, 5 February 1971
Swedish Science: Saying What Should Be Done, Technology Review, April 1971
The Lesson of the Askö Lab, New Scientist, 9 December 1971
Taking Science to the Streets, New Scientist, 24 February 1972
UNCSTD – a matter of involvement, New Scientist, 7 June 1979
And here are some later articles that I wrote in the 2000s, when I was given the opportunity to write for the culture pages of the Malmö newspaper, Sydsvenska Dagbladet:
“Åkarp 2040” (a vision of my hometown when the cars are gone), published in Swedish, July 20, 2006
“Lund is not Harvard” (a comment on Swedish research funding procedures), published in Swedish, July 14, 2006
“A Hybrid Imagination” (a review of two books by the cognitive scientist Peter Gärdenfors), published in Swedish, June 9, 2006
“Lund Joins the Club” (a comment on a scandal at my former university), published in Swedish, March 28, 2006
“Where Has the Swedish Model Gone?” (some political nostalgia), published in Swedish, March 6, 2006
“‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, on Why Denmark Succeeded and Sweden Didn’t” (on the culture of wind energy development in Scandinavia) published in Swedish, December 27, 2005
“A Country Without a Soul” (comments on my homeland in the wake of Katrina), published in Swedish, September 3, 2005
“On the Meaning of Boule” (some reflections on the French ball game), published in Swedish, August 8, 2005
“Climate Change is not about Science” (on the politics of climate change skepticism), published in Swedish, July 22, 2005
“Technology as a Religion” (a comment on Swedish technology policy), published in Swedish, April 1, 2005
“Bob Dylan’s Sixties” (on the meaning of early Dylan songs), published in Swedish, March 27, 2005
“Lomborg in Hollywood” (a review of Michael Crichton’s State of Fear), published in Swedish, January 15, 2005
“A Letter From Nowhere” (a travel report from a visit to William Morris’s Kelmscott Manor), published in Swedish, July 17, 2004
“More than Words” (a review of a talk by Richard Rorty in Lund), published in Swedish, June 8, 2004
“When the World Began to Change” (a review of Mark Kurlansky’s 1968), published in Swedish, May 21, 2004
“Remember Lysenko” (a discussion of the similarities between Lysenko and Lomborg), published in Swedish, December 19, 2003
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