Writer & editor · Berkeley
I spent more than a decade at Nautilus commissioning and writing stories at the intersection of science, philosophy, and culture. My first book, with Mark Shelhamer, asks what it would actually take to send people to Mars.
Johns Hopkins University Press · October 13, 2026
Mark Shelhamer with Brian Gallagher
What it will actually take to send people to Mars — and bring them home. Biomedical engineer Mark Shelhamer and I look past the launch footage to the bodies, minds, and machines that would have to survive the trip.
From the archive
Mind · Nautilus
A step-by-step guide to True, False, and Random
October 23, 2015
Mind · Nautilus
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back
December 23, 2014
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