Chicagoan/Iowan. Trying to write. Buildings, books, bars, bikes, transit, cooking, photography…

I write about business, science, and things that people do for fun. Work published in Fast Company, Inc., Men’s Journal, Proto, Marker. Vermonter by choice.

words and jokes so that i might eat and live indoors. talk to me: colinsilasmcgowan [at] gmail [dot] com

All things urban, from @theatlantic.

Writer for The Atlantic

Sociologist of race & education at the University of Chicago. Author of 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Electric Arches, and a bunch of Marvel comics.

Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller on animal-microbe partnerships. https://edyong.me/