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5/12/08
New column launches at Scientific American

4/26/08
Core Competency Moms?

12/11/06
Grindhopping is available on Amazon

5/29/06
My speech to the Indiana Academy class of 2006

5/10/06
Laura wins $50,000 journalism fellowship

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12/06/07 What Moms Can Learn from Dads (USA Today)
7/17/08 Still Made for You and Me (City Journal)
6/23/08 Blazing a Trail for Women in Math (profile of Moon Duchin) (Scientific American)
6/23/08 Any Knowledge that Might be Useful (profile of Leroy Hood) (Scientific American)
6/23/08 Baffling Questions (profile of Atom Sarkar) (Scientific American)
6/23/08 Making Teaching Into an Intellectual Journey (Scientific American)
12/31/69 Men Who "Halve" It All (CCM part 7) (Huffington Post)
12/31/69 Want Balance? Be the Boss (CCM series, part 6) (Huffington Post)
6/13/08 Choosing Wisely (City Journal)
12/31/69 The Case Against the Victory Garden (Core Competency Moms) (Huffington Post)
12/31/69 A Happy Mom's Secret: Don't Do Your Own Laundry (Huffington Post)
12/31/69 On Wasting Time: Are You Reading This at Work? (Core Competency Moms part 3) (Huffington Post)
12/31/69 Life, Uncluttered (Core Competency Moms Part 2) (Huffington Post)
12/31/69 On Not Doing Dishes: The Rise of the Core Competency Mom (Huffington Post)
5/28/08 Finding Order (profile of Jane Richardson) (Scientific American)
12/05/07 When School Works (Doublethink)
12/05/07 Want to save the planet? Stay home. (USA Today)
5/12/08 A Storybook Career (Conde Nast Portfolio)
5/14/08 What Amuses Me (Profile of Mary-Dell Chilton) (Scientific American)
5/12/08 The Watcher: Roald Hoffmann (Scientific American)
12/04/07 Give Them Homes (USA Today)
4/26/08 Meet the Middle Class Millionaires (The American)
12/03/07 The Tuition Game (USA Today)
3/19/08 The Trouble with Opting Out (Huffington Post)
3/19/08 The Myths of Energy Independence (The American)
3/19/08 Cracking the CEO Pay Puzzle (The American)
12/02/07 The Perfect Match (USA Today)
12/01/07 Making Math Pay (USA Today)
1/02/07 Trouble in Toy Land (USA Today)
12/19/07 Finding Joy in an $883 Rice Cooker (Huffington Post)
1/01/07 Rethinking Environmentalism (USA Today)
11/06/07 One Small Step for Paula, One Giant Leap for Women's Athletics (Huffington Post)
10/19/07 Weighing In (review of Good Calories, Bad Calories) (The American)
12/31/06 The Hired Wife (USA Today)
9/14/07 Confession: My Carbon Footprint Looks Like a Clown Shoe (Huffington Post)
12/09/06 When School Works (USA Today)
8/15/07 The Little Secret of Women Who Have it All (Huffington Post)
12/08/06 Beating the Biological Clock (USA Today)
6/29/07 Diagnosing Sicko (The Huffington Post)
6/19/07 Rethinking the Obesity "Crisis" (The American)
6/11/07 Bio-Fuels or Bio-Fools? (The American)
5/30/07 When you work for yourself, is "maternity leave" possible? (Huffington Post)
12/05/06 You Don't Have to Hate Your First Job (USA Today)
12/04/06 No Pregnant Pause (USA Today)
4/18/07 An Apology for Judicial Activism (The American)
3/29/07 A Head for Numbers (Wired)
3/29/07 Just Visiting (Monopoly book review) (The American)
12/03/06 Message to High Court: Get Out (USA Today)
2/11/07 Perfectionists for Freedom (The American)
12/02/06 Get a Job? No, Make a Job (USA Today)
1/02/06 The Joys of Selfish Giving (USA Today)
12/08/06 Stumbling on Psychology (The American)
11/28/06 What are Women Worth? (The American)
1/01/06 A Civil Abortion Debate? (USA Today)
12/31/05 Do Smart Girls Finish Last in Love? (USA Today)
7/31/06 Perspective, Please (USA Today)
6/24/06 Stellavision (The Blog Reader)
6/06/06 Health Insurance Doesn't Have to Hurt (USA Today)
4/12/06 Withholding Feeds Tax Apathy (USA Today)
3/20/06 Time to Revamp PE (USA Today)
2/13/06 Love (or not) in an iPod world (USA Today)
1/16/06 When Fiction Masquerades as Truth (USA Today)
12/06/05 A New Mommy Track (USA Today)
10/24/05 Peace Corps Needs a Makeover (USA Today)
9/25/05 The Magic of Boarding Schools (USA Today)
8/28/05 We found kids in order to help them: The legacy of Julian Stanley (Davidson Institute's GT-CyberSource)
7/26/05 If Roe Were Overturned (USA Today)
6/29/05 A Way to Feed the World (USA Today)
5/15/05 The (frugal) graduate (USA Today)
4/11/05 What Math Gender Gap? (USA Today)
3/09/05 Social Security (half of pro-con package with Robert Reich) (USA Today)
3/11/05 (USA Today)
2/14/05 Want Lower Drug Bills? Look in the Mirror (USA Today)
2/07/05 Hammered- How Blogs Are Shattering the Arrogance of the Columbia Journalism Review (The DC Examiner)
11/29/04 Writing a Wrong (USA Today)
11/02/04 The Youth Vote-- It Didn't Rock (USA Today)
9/26/04 Online learning, USA Today (USA Today)
8/10/04 Let the Grooms Suffer, Too (USA Today)
7/10/04 The Sanity of Self-Employment (USA Today)
4/18/04 With Interns, You Get What You Pay For (USA Today)
3/21/04 Self-Publishing Will Spur Book Industry to Modernize (USA Today)
2/07/04 Conservatives tune in, drop out after college (USA Today)
12/15/03 Yuspies: Cities Covet Young Urban Single Professionals (USA Today)
11/04/03 Right-wing Laugh Riot (Washington Times)
11/04/03 Donors: Wise Up About Giving (USA Today)
10/11/03 Why Not Trophy Husbands? (USA Today)
8/24/03 For U.S. Freshmen, It's Feast or Famine (Washington Times)
7/06/03 The Challenge of Being Gifted" (Washington Times)
9/09/03 Big Apple Remains City for Dreamers (USA Today)
8/24/03 Get a Life, Parents, and Let Adult Child Have One Too (USA Today)
8/02/03 Diversify Colleges' Political Tilt (USA Today)
11/24/02 White Collar Sweatshops Batter Young Worker (USA Today)
7/28/02 Mega-families bring It takes a village to life (USA Today)
1/19/03 SAT Talent searches lead nowhere for many (USA Today)
8/05/02 Some can sail over high school (USA Today)
1/21/02 Sports, brains vie at elite colleges (USA Today)
9/17/02 Miss America pageant lacks va-va-va-voom (USA Today)