BehaviorAugust 10, 2019
Jacks-of-All-Trades Make the Grade
Journalist and author David Epstein talks about his new book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
Stories by David Epstein
David Epstein is the author of the 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene. He's a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, and currently an investigative reporter at ProPublica.
BiologyAugust 17, 2016
Big Bang of Body Types: Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond
David Epstein talks about his 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance and his recent Scientific American article "Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber Legs at the Brave New Olympics."
PolicyAugust 5, 2016
Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber Legs at the Brave New Olympics
With technology and pharmaceuticals dominating our reality, how do we define “natural” human effort in sports? The author of bestseller The Sports Gene weighs in
February 7, 2014
Making Winter Sports Olympic Champions out of Australian "Beach Babes" [Excerpt]
In The Sports Gene David Epstein explores what separates elite athletes from the rest of us