Seema YasminWhy Your Heroes Should Be ImperfectI gave a TEDx talk in Dallas about my mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The audio is awful so here’s a transcript.Aug 24, 20181Aug 24, 20181
Seema YasmininJSK Class of 2018A Survival Kit For Journalists Of ColourYou left because the editors shut down your pitches. Or because they said yes but never ran those columns, the ones you felt most…Jun 5, 20181Jun 5, 20181
Seema YasmininJSK Class of 2018Covering an epidemic is like covering conflict: Why science reporters should be trained like war…Should science reporters be trained like war correspondents? For the last seven months I’ve been exploring misinformation and ways to…Apr 17, 2018Apr 17, 2018
Seema YasminThe anniversary of a Texas tornadoThis essay about the Dallas tornado outbreak of December 26, 2015 won the Mayborn literary non-fiction essay award and originally appeared…Dec 27, 2017Dec 27, 2017
Seema YasminEpidemics of misinformation and why we should stop oversimplifying thingsNotes from a speech to the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers in San Francisco, December 1, 2017.Dec 2, 2017Dec 2, 2017
Seema YasminAn Exploration of FearOn Tuesdays, I do four scary things before 4 p.m. First, I balance on a bike and cycle through the streets of Palo Alto onto Stanford’s…Nov 29, 20171Nov 29, 20171