Selected Publications
Jamie Holmes, “The American Scientists Who Saved London From Nazi Drones,” WIRED, August 4, 2020.
Jamie Holmes, “How to Organize Science in an Emergency,” Slate, August 4, 2020
Jamie Holmes, “Flossing and the Art of Scientific Investigation,” the New York Times, November 25, 2016
Jamie Holmes, “How Inconclusive Medical Results Propel an Endless Cycle of Testing,” New York Magazine, October 7, 2016 (excerpt)
Jamie Holmes, “Hunting Osama and Searching for the Right Employee,” USA Today, December 1, 2015
Jamie Holmes, “Embracing the Unknown,” the Scientist, November 1, 2015
Jamie Holmes, “Doctors Hate Ambiguity,” Slate, October 12, 2015 (adapted)
Jamie Holmes, “How Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter,” The New Yorker, August 28, 2015
Jamie Holmes, “The Case for Teaching Ignorance,” the New York Times, August 24, 2015
Jamie Holmes, “I’ve Got My Eye on You,” Slate, December 14, 2011
Jamie Holmes, “How to Learn Self-Control,” Review of Roy Baumeister and John Tierney’s Willpower in the Daily Beast, August 28, 2011
Jamie Holmes, “Why Texting is the Most Important Information Service in the World,” the Atlantic, August 2, 2011
Jamie Holmes, “Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?” the New Republic, June 6, 2011
Jamie Holmes, “Identification, Please,” Foreign Policy, March 9, 2011
Jamie Holmes, “Trust Your Irrationality,” Review of Dan Ariely’s The Upside of Irrationality in the Daily Beast, July 31, 2010
Jamie Holmes. “Policy-makers are all in our minds,” the Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2009, A13
Jamie Holmes, “‘Postracial’ America, One Year Later,” Huffington Post, November 5, 2009
Selected Interviews & EVENTS
Mia Armstrong, “What Science and Technology Owe the National Defense,” Slate, September 25, 2020
Matt Crawford, The Curious Man Podcast, September 3, 2020
Professor Buzzkill History Podcast, “The Fuse that Helped Win World War II,” August 4, 2020
Andres Martinez, “Are Big Tech Companies the Wartime Heroes in Our Fight Against COVID-19?” Slate, March 27, 2020
Abby Wendel, “The Weatherman,” NPR Invisibilia, March 22, 2019
Curious Minds with Gayle Allen, “Jamie Holmes on the Surprising Benefits of Uncertainty,” December 7, 2015
The Brian Lehrer Show, “The Upside of Being Confused,” WNYC, October 21, 2015
HuffPost Live in-studio video interview, October 15, 2015
AirTalk with Larry Bartels, KPCC (NPR-L.A.) October 15, 2015
Gareth Cook, “The Power of Embracing Uncertainty,” Scientific American, October 13, 2015
Editor Richard Just on TNR article, “Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?” June 16, 2011
WTOP interview on CNN article, “Eleanor’s Day,” October 11, 2009
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Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, October 8, 2017
IdeaFestival, September 28, 2016
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, “Exploring Leadership Colloquium,” September 8, 2016
Open Society Foundations, “Talking Nonsense (And Benefitting From It): A Conversation with Jamie Holmes,” January 13, 2016
Slate & New America, “The Problem With Informational Instant Gratification,” Book Event for Nonsense, October 13, 2015
Cate Institute Dinner, Monday October 12 (Nonsense Book Event)
Press Coverage
Danielle Braff, “The Great Pandemic Wedding Boom,” New York Times, February 6, 2021
Andrew Roberts, “Under the Radar,” book review of 12 Seconds of Silence in Air Mail, August 1, 2020
Jesse Singal, “Why the Wait for President Trump Feels So Agonizing,” New York Magazine, November 10, 2016
Matthew Hutson, “In Praise of Intellectual Uncertainty,” book review of Nonsense in theWashington Post, November 13, 2015
Von Annette Schäfer, “Mut Zur Unsicherheit,” Psychologie Heute, July 2016
Ana Swanson, “Your reaction to this confusing column reveals more about you than you know,” theWashington Post, February 5, 2016
Linda Flanagan, “How to Spark Curiosity in Children Through Embracing Uncertainty,” Mind/Shift, October 21, 2015
Jesse Singal, “The Bad Things That Happen When People Can’t Deal with Ambiguous Situations,” New York Magazine, October 19, 2015
Julie Beck, “The Benefits of Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty,” the Atlantic, October 9, 2015
Gareth Cook, “The Power of Embracing Uncertainty,” Scientific American, October 13, 2015
Oliver Burkeman, “This column will change your life: Poverty and Willpower,” the Guardian, July 22, 2011
Josh Rothman, “Does Poverty Erode Free Will?” the Boston Globe, June 10, 2011
Reihan Salam, “Jamie Holmes on Willpower as a Scarce Resource,” National Review, June 9, 2011
Matt Yglesias, “Poverty and the Lump of Willpower,” ThinkProgress, June 7, 2011
Jamelle Bouie, “What Keeps Poor People Poor?” American Prospect, June 6, 2011
Andrew Sullivan, “Is Willpower a Finite Resource,” the Daily Beast, June 6, 2011