Selected Essays.

Public-facing essays translating research on nuclear safety, deep time, and long-term governance for broad audiences.

- “The Mind-Bending Challenge of Warning Future Humans about Nuclear Waste.” Scientific American, 11/17/2025. (Link).

- “Do You Find the 21st Century Overstimulating? Try Longstorming.” Psyche, 6/13/2024. (Link).

- “Deep Time Underground.” Pace Layers 1 (Link).

- “Keeping Time Into the Great Beyond.” Noema, 4/5/2022. (Link).

- “The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future.” Scientific American, 8/13/2021. (Link).

- “What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?” Sapiens & MIT Press Reader, 6/22/2021. (Link).

- “The Benefits of Embracing ‘Deep Time’ in a Year Like 2020.” BBC, 12/9/2020. (Link).

- “Can Nuclear Power Plants Generate Artistic Inspiration?” NPR, 2/27/2018. (Link).

- “Why Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking Around.” Nautilus, 11/24/2017. (Link).

- “Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great’” (with Chloe Ahmann). Sapiens, 4/26/2017. (Link).

- “Books Trump Should Read Before Getting the Nuclear Codes” (with Annie Tomlinson). NPR, 12/27/2017. (Link).

- “Smaller Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants Under Development Hold Promise and Peril” (with Annie Tomlinson). Forbes, 10/25/2016. (Link).

- “Excited About the Pope's Visit? Read Laudato Si.” (with Annelise Riles). NPR, 9/26/2015. (Link).

- “Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?” Nautilus, 3/17/2015. (Link).

- “Looking Into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault.” Nautilus, 3/16/2015. (Link).

- “Embracing Deep Time Thinking.” NPR, 9/28/2014. (Link).

- “Pondering ‘Deep Time’ Could Inspire New Ways to View Climate Change.” NPR, 9/21/2014. (Link).

- “Envisioning Landscapes of Our Very Distant Future.” NPR, 9/14/2014. (Link).

Selected Radio, Television, and Podcast Appearances.

- “Can Nuclear Waste Teach Us About Long-Term Thinking?” Land and Climate Review. 4/19/2024. (Link).

- “Why Thinking in Deep Time is Good for Your Head.” Big Ideas with Natasha Mitchell, ABC Radio Australia. 4/19/2023. (Link).

- “Deep Time Reckoning.” Conversation with host Sarah Newman (University of Chicago, Anthropology), New Books Network. 12/19/2023. (Link).

- “The Deep Time Paradigm.” Victorian Afternoons with Jacinta Parsons, ABC Melbourne, 3/7/2023.

- “How to Stretch Time.” Headspace Meditation App’s Long Time Academy series with The Long Time Project and Brian Eno, 11/2021. (Link).

- “Deep Time Reckoning.” Living on Earth (Interview with Jenni Doering syndicated on 250+ stations by Public Radio International and NPR Podcasts), 7/23/2021. (Link).

- KRSN Talk Radio, New Mexico, Interview on nuclear waste governance, 11/14/2018.

Selected Media Coverage & Features.

- “Learning to Think Long-Term.” Science, Jacob Hamblin, 370(6520). (Link).

- “Why Businesses Need to Start Thinking Beyond the Quick Fix and Plan Long Term.” The Telegraph, Tom Cheesewright, 1/13/2025. (Link).

- “The Long and Short Of It: The Importance of Thinking Ahead.” The Telegraph, Tom Cheesewright, 1/20/2025. (Link).

- “Wie man eine Million Jahre im Voraus plant.” Four-page feature on Deep Time Reckoning in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Roland Schulz, 8/29/2024. (Link).

- “Nuclear Power as a Clean Energy Solution? The Debate Heats Up,” USC Dornsife Magazine, Ileana Wachtel, 1/15/2023. (Link).

- “In 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today.” Feature on Did You Know? Wikipedia, 10/14/2022. (Link).

- "Apprehending the World from the Vast Expanses of Space and Time: A Planetary-Scale Technology.” WIRED Japan, 9/24/2022. (Link).

- “How Do We Warn Future Generations About Our Toxic Waste?” New Humanist, Kit Chapman, Spring 2022. (Link).

- “Pay Close Attention to Russia’s Small Neighbor on Energy.” Washington Post and Bloomberg, Lionel Laurent, 10/11/2021. (Link).

- “Ohut Käsitys Ajasta.” Two-Page Human Interest Story, Helsingin Sanomat, Sunday Edition, Esa Lilja, 3/5/2021. (Link).

- “A Million Years Into the Future: Why You Need a Dose of Very Deep Thinking.” Physics World, Robert Crease, 2/2021. (Link).

- “Eräänä kesäiltana Seppo kaatui ja kuoli – se oli vakava paikka, sillä tämä raivokas nero yksin tiesi kaiken siitä, miten Suomen ydin­jäte haudataan turvallisesti.” Front Page Human Interest Story, Helsingin Sanomat, Sunday Edition, Esa Lilja, 11/12/2017. (Link).

- “People Have Book Recommendations For Trump, If He'd Only Read One.” Huffington Post, Claire Fallon, 1/23/2017. (Link).

- “Fukushima: Time Bomb Or Training Device?” Forbes, Rod Adams, 8/26/2016. (Link).

- “The Yucca Mountain Hangover.” Nevada Public Radio, Andrew Kiraly, 1/26/2015. (Link).