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Brendan Borrell

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Author of THE FIRST SHOTS Writer @outsidemagazine @natgeo @theatlantic @bw and others

Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2008
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Brendan Borrell
2 years
I wanted to see what John Muir had once called “the floweriest piece of world I ever walked,” and to daydream about what it was like when the rivers here ran wild. "My Wild, Wet, and (Sometimes) Miserable Paddling Trip Through the Heart of California".
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Record winter storms turned the Central Valley into a 300-mile long flood zone. We sent a writer and photographer to check out conditions that hadn’t been seen in 40 years.
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RT @ashleevance: Just a tremendous weekend read from @eryney_ok. We are at the precipice of mass miracles and the end of much pain and suff….
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corememory.com
How we got to Baby KJ and where we're going
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Brendan Borrell
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Over at @corememory @eryney_ok writes about the moment "when the promise of personalized gene therapy finally crystallized" and an all-hands-on-deck hustle saved a baby named KJ Muldoon.
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How we got to Baby KJ and where we're going
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @AlecStapp: Operation Warp Speed was the most successful government program in decades. And mRNA vaccines were critical to that success….
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Brendan Borrell
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Amid RFK Jr.'s cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts, a reminder: The First Shots tells the inside story of how Trump's Operation Warp Speed defied precedent—and politics—to deliver them in record time.
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amazon.com
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
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Brendan Borrell
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“Operation Warp Speed was, whether you’re Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country,” President Trump said at a news briefing on Wednesday in response to a question about mRNA vaccines (via @nytimes).
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Brendan Borrell
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Can AI fix the weather forecast? @ryderkimball reports on WindBorne, the balloon-powered startup going head-to-head with world's biggest tech companies.
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corememory.com
WindBorne Systems is chasing the once mythical 21-day forecast
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Brendan Borrell
5 months
Re-upping this in light of recent news of the Pfizer probe
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @WSJForero: U.S. prosecutors probe a politically explosive tip that Pfizer in 2020 delayed announcing a successful Covid-19 vaccine unti….
wsj.com
The inquiry is looking into a politically explosive suggestion that Pfizer delayed announcing a successful vaccine against Covid-19 until after the election that Trump lost to Biden.
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RT @RetractionWatch: "The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now": Our Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky reflect on RFK Jr.'s use of scientifi….
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @alexheard: Outside in its heyday was one of the best magazines that ever existed. I'm proud I got to be part of that. It was thriving b….
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @ashleevance: New words - The Digital Natives have given way to AI Natives
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @carlfranzen: "During my fact-checking process for an upcoming magazine feature on him, Bryan Johnson had some concerns. They centered o….
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @DavidCornDC: SCOOP: Insiders at a RFK Jr.-led nonprofit questioned why/how he funneled $67 million to a small environmental group he &….
motherjones.com
Kennedy sent millions to the Bahamas. Did it help a billionaire pal?
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @ashleevance: 🧵 Well, friends, after a long, epic run at Bloomberg, I'm launching my own thing - Core Memory - a sci-tech media company….
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Brendan Borrell
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"Writers who can see a path to making films and television shows on their own, with the creative control and money that come along with that, have more reason than ever to jump ship."
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semafor.com
The company will produce high-end documentaries along with the usual “digital” products.
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @picardonhealth: Drug Company to Share Revenues With #Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes. Variant Bio of Seattle, is using geneti….
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nytimes.com
Variant Bio, a small biotech company based in Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes.
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RT @MattFiner: Epic & entertaining tale looking at origins and current situation of largest oil palm plantations in Peruvian Amazon. Includ….
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Brendan Borrell
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RT @pulitzercenter: U.S. investors illegally razed 30,000 acres of Peruvian rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations which now gener….
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