SHERP Library

SHERP-trained journalists go deep. Here’s a selection of major projects — books, podcast series, and documentaries — undertaken by our graduates and faculty in recent years.

 
Podcast | November 11, 2024
Entanglements
Seeking common ground, two science journalists question experts with divergent opinions on some of the most contentious and politicized areas of science today.
Brooke Borel
Adjunct Faculty
Anna Rothschild
Visiting Scholar
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Book | September 24, 2024
The Inner Clock
Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms
Lynne Peeples
SHERP 2009
tested
Podcast | August 11, 2024
Tested
The Long History of Sex Testing in Sports
Rose Eveleth
SHERP 2011
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Podcast | July 9, 2024
The World As You’ll Know It
The Great Rebuild
Arielle Duhaime-Ross
SHERP 2013
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Book | June 25, 2024
Becoming Earth
How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr
SHERP 2010
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Book | June 18, 2024
Code Dependant
Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia
SHERP 2011
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Book | September 26, 2023
Scarcity Brain
Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Michael Easter
SHERP 2010
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Book | June 6, 2023
I Feel Love
MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World
Rachel Nuwer
Adjunct Faculty
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Book | May 9, 2023
Little Black Hole
Molly Webster
SHERP 2007
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Book | March 14, 2023
Whale Fall
Exploring an Ocean-Floor Ecosystem
Melissa Stewart
SHERP 1991
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Book | October 25, 2022
Darwin’s Love of Life
A Singular Case of Biophilia
Karen Harel
SHERP 1989
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Book | October 4, 2022
The Tower of Life
How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
Chana Freiman Stiefel
SHERP 1991
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Book | June 21, 2022
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes
Science-based Strategies for Better Parenting -- From Tots to Teens
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Adjunct Faculty
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Book | May 17, 2022
Been There, Done That
A Rousing History of Sex
Rachel Feltman
SHERP 2013
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Podcast | October 5, 2021
How it Happened: The Next Astronauts
Follow the first all-civilian space crew as they prepare for their historic mission.
Miriam Kramer
SHERP 2012
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Podcast | August 5, 2021
Gonads
A Journey Deep Into the Parts of Us That Let Us Make More of Us
Molly Webster
SHERP 2007
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Documentary | June 7, 2021
A Sexplanation
Alex Finally Gets a Sex Education, No Matter How Awkward
Alex Liu
SHERP 2010
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Book | May 11, 2021
The Comfort Crisis
Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Michael Easter
SHERP 2010
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Book | April 20, 2021
Flash Forward
An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
Rose Eveleth
SHERP 2011
Book | April 6, 2021
Hawking Hawking
The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
Charles Seife
Professor
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Book | November 6, 2020
Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep
50 Award-Winning Children’s Book Authors Share the Secret of Engaging Writing
Melissa Stewart
SHERP 1991
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Book | September 8, 2020
Breath from Salt
A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patient and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
Bijal Trivedi
SHERP 1998
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Book | September 25, 2018
Poached
Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
Rachel Nuwer
Adjunct Faculty
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Book | January 2, 2018
Beyond Beautiful
Using the Power of Your Mind and Aesthetic Breakthroughs to Look Naturally Young and Radiant
Doris Day
SHERP 1987