California's climate change war

Having finished my book on ADHD (due out in Sept. 2010) I'm now back to freelancing for awhile, focusing on my other obsession: global warming. Here's the latest, a blog item for the New York Times on the new attempts to overturn California's historic climate change law....

neurofeedback story

My stories on neurofeedback's promise and pitfalls appeared in today's Washington Post.

It has already engendered several comments, most of them, alas, expressing the all-too-common pooh-poohing of whether ADHD is "real" or God's judgment on inept parents and our video-gaming culture. I hope the tone improves as today goes on and that at some point we can accept that ADHD (like global warming) is a genuine cause of suffering that should be addressed in more thoughtful ways.

the ones that got away -- the decline of local seafood

I have another story in the New York Times today -- about the decline in local seafood in the SF Bay Area....