Vince Beiser
Vince Beiser is a Miller-McCune contributing editor based in Los Angeles. He has hunted down stories from the Balkans to the Middle East on assignments for Harper's, Wired, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Nation and Rolling Stone. His work has been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors; the Columbia, Medill and Missouri graduate schools of journalism; the National Mental Health Association; and many other institutions.
20,000 Robots Under the Sea
Jules Jaffe of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is developing an army of underwater explorers that researchers hope will produce a fine-grained, real-time map of the movements of the sea.
Turning Cellphones Into Mobile Microscopes
Researchers across California are working to bring medical microscopes to our cellphones — and vastly improve field medicine.
Humayun Finding Medical Advances in Plain Sight
Mark Humayun taps the burgeoning field of bioelectronics to help the blind to see and the lame to walk.
Can Computers Predict Crimes of the Future?
The LAPD’s Sean Malinowski wants to prevent crime with “predictive policing,” which can forecast patterns of where crime occurs using computer algorithms.
Save the Poor by Selling Them Stuff — Cheap
The bottom-of-the-pyramid marketing movement tries to profit the developing world and make a profit at the same time.
Lee Baca Wants to Educate L.A.’s Prisoners
In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County’s top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.
Resurrecting the Dead Sea
An extraordinary plan to revive the Dead Sea could ease tensions among Israel, Palestine and Jordan. Or it could create an environmental disaster.
Is the Gaza Blockade Backfiring?
The flotilla debacle aside, Israel’s effort to strangle Hamas is fighting some tough historical headwinds.
Taming Suicide-Bomber City
Why is the West Bank’s most notorious militant hotbed being touted as a model of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation?
Desperately Seeking Landmines
Despite years of research on everything from ‘HeroRATS’ to TNT-sniffing bees, humans still remove most landmines by poking — very, very carefully — in the ground.
Finding Water from Outer Space
A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world’s thirstiest places.
Study in Contrepreneurship
In its first four years, Catherine Rohr’s Prison Entrepreneurship Program shows some success in turning drug dealers and other convicts into legit businessmen.
Handing Out Heroin
Would we all be better off if we gave heroin addicts their drugs for free?
First, Reduce Harm
Faced with a horrific drug problem, Vancouver is trying a radical experiment: Let junkies be junkies.
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Overseas Troops Finally Get Fair Shot at Voting
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