- Outside Magazine (August 11, 2017): Inside the Lab that's Quantifying Happiness by Rowan Jacobsen
Please note: This list has been asleep for a while. Upgrading databases to make a better thing.
- The Guardian (May 19, 2018): Texas high school shooting prompts talk of 'contagion effect' by Lois Beckett
- National Geographic (March issue, 2016): The Power of Positive Speaking by Jeremy Berlin
- Aeon Magazine (November 12, 2015): The story trap. We use neat stories to explain everything from sports matches to symphonies. Is it time to leave the nursery of the mind? by Philip Ball
- Motherboard, Vice (November 11, 2015): One Degree of Separation in the Forever War by Brian Castner
- New York Times (October 28, 2015): Google Books: A Complex and Controversial Experiment by Stephen Heyman
- Washington Post (July 29, 2015): Twitter can tell which states love jogging and which are eating hot dogs, by Aleszu Bajak
- MIT Technology Review (July 27, 2015): How the New Science of Game Stories Could Change the Future of Sports
- Lexicon Valley podcast (June 17, 2015): Language Has a Positivity Bias. How Did We Measure That?" with Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
- New York Times (February 23, 2015): According to the Words, the News Is Actually Good, by John Tierney
- CBS News This Morning (February 24, 2015): How language shows we're biased toward positivity (also on youtube: here). Interview of John Tierney with hosts Gayle King, Charlie Rose, and Norah O'Donnell.
- Note: Working on updating this time period. Please see my C.V.
- Nature News (April 26, 2013): Crowdsourcing in manhunts can work: Despite mistakes over the Boston bombers, social media can help to find people quickly by Philip Ball.
- Bloomberg News (September 25, 2012): How Social Dynamics Made You Successful by Cass R. Sunstein.
- New York Times (August 4, 2012): Luck vs. Skill: Seeking the Secret of Your Success by Robert H. Frank.
- The Atlantic (January, 2012): Study of the Day: English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language.
- Le Monde (January, 2012): 'anglais, une langue optimiste?
- National Geographic (December 2011): Measuring Happiness Tweet by Tweet.
- U.S. News and World Report (December 20, 2011): Twitter: World Is Getting More Miserable by Meg Handley.
- wired.com (December 13, 2011): The Design of Science: 10 Great Research Graphics by Brandon Keim.
- Science Magazine (September, 2011): Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream by Greg Miller.
- New York Times (September 29): Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :) by Benedict Carey.
- wired.com (August 31, 2011): Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English Language. by Brandon Keim.
- The Economist (February 11, 2010): Tree and Leaf.
- Scientific Blogging (February 9, 2010): Peter Sheridan Dodds, Theoretical Biology's Buzzkill by Mark Changizi.
- Physical Review Focus (February 4, 2010): Why leaves aren't trees by Don Monroe.
- University of Vermont Press Release (February 2, 2010): Spherical cows help to dump metabolism law by Joshua Brown.
- Science News (January 16, 2010): Stuides of human social networks go high-tech by Lisa Grossman.
- CNN Health (August 24, 2009): How do we find life’s benchmark? by Akash Goel.
- San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2009): Web offering more gauges about happiness by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera.
- New York Times (August 12, 2009): Schott's Vocab: Hedonometer by Ben Schott. (Some enjoyable comments.)
- New York Times (August 11, 2009): Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring by Jenna Wortham.
- Science Magazine (Vol. 325, p. 659), Random Samples (August 7, 2009): Blogs: Happiness Barometers? interview by Michael Torrice, edited by Robert Coontz (subscription required).
- New York Times (August 3, 2009): Does a Nation’s Mood Lurk in Its Songs and Blogs? by Ben Carey.
- ScienceNOW Daily News (August 3, 2009): How Happy is the Internet? by Michael Torrice.
- London Times Online (August 3, 2009): Twittering your way to happiness by Anjana Ahuja.
- The Week (August 21, 2009): Measuring a nation's mood (requires subscription).
- Discovery News (July 31, 2009): 'Happiness Meter' Analyzes Blogs, Tweets by Eric Bland.
- Vermont Public Radio News (July 31, 2009): UVM professors measure happiness by Ross Sneyd.
- Reuters (July 29, 2009): Jackson's death was blogosphere's saddest day: study by Belinda Goldsmith.
- Chronicle of Higher Education (July 29, 2009): Think You're Happy? Song Lyrics May Have the Answer by Marc Beja.
- Scientific American: 60 Second Science (July 28, 2009): Measuring emotion in cyberspace: Jackson's death a sad day; Obama's election a very happy one : ) by Lynne Peeples.
- UVM Today (July 23, 2009): If You're Happy, Then We Know It: New Research Measures Mood by Joshua Brown.
- New Yorker (August 3, 2009) A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book? by Nicholson Baker. This is a very gentle but amusing connection. I contributed to the edited volume "The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals", which here is a (mostly) random book chosen by Baker to demonstrate problems with current technology (and pricing) of the Kindle. Andrew Sullivan pointed straight to the relevant section here.
- Slashdot (December 1, 2008): Censorship by Glut by Bennett Haselton.
- The View (November 12, 2008): It's Complex by Joshua Brown.
- Russian Smart Money (February 11, 2008): Они не цепляют: В партизанском маркетинге от звезд никакого толку by Michael Popov.
- Science News (January 5, 2008): The Power of Being Influenced: Network theory reveals the best way to spread ideas by Julie J. Rehmeyer.
- Washington Post (December 31, 2007): "Vote Your Conscience. If You Can." by Shankar Vedantam.
- In Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005), Nick Lane nicely covers our 2001 work on energy metabolism for mammals and birds: "As so often happens in science, the apparently solid foundations of a field turned to rubble on closer inspection." The relevant excerpt is here.
- The main press pages for past online sociological experiments are here (Music Lab) and (in fact not) here (Small World Project). Will update.
- Technology Research News (May 29, 2002): Groups key to network structures.
- New York Times (December 20, 2001): Using E-Mail to Count Connections.
- Nature (September 28, 2001) All creatures great and small.
- New York Times (November 23, 1999) Physicists invading geologists' turf.
- Science (June 4, 1999) New clues to why size equals destiny.
- Geotimes (June, 1999): What tangled networks they weave.
- MIT News (March 23, 1999): MIT researcher seeks to unravel the physics of landscape erosion.