Jacob Baynham

Freelance journalist, father, fisherman, baker. Other identities always considered.

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Did you know that some of the lithium atoms in your phone battery are as old as the universe? I wrote about the mysterious life of lithium for @NoemaMag. Thanks to @PeterMellgard for thoughtful edits and @nonojojo for rigorous fact-checking. https://t.co/OKM4TRDVC5

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This is the story of lithium, a powerful, promising & somehow still mysterious element on which we humans have pinned our hopes for survival on a planet warmed by our excesses, @JacobBaynham writes

https://t.co/W4QI8O6zr0

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I wrote an unseemly number of words about dog poop for Missoula's local news site, The Pulp. The story's about poop, yes, but also freedom, responsibility and our delicate social contracts. https://t.co/IuQ9T3Wijv @Longreads

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What if money expired? I took a deep dive for @NoemaMag into the abstract, absurd history of money and a long-forgotten German economist who tried to create a currency that decays over time. https://t.co/Cl8kl9a5rV

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“More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free-love-promoting German entrepreneur & economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it.

He wanted to make money that decays over time.”

—@JacobBaynham
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Are we the same person our whole lives? I explored this question, and others, in an essay on identity and water for @NoemaMag. Beautiful photos by
@laurengrabelle
https://t.co/STXn5f588V

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“A river only stays the same if it constantly changes,” @JacobBaynham writes. “The same could be said for people. If we're not moving, shifting, evolving — are we really living?”

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Profiling @jimkchin for @GQMagazine took me to many interesting places (figuratively) and also to a very literal cliff in the Tetons, where the Oscar-winning climber/photographer/filmmaker talked me off the ledge. https://t.co/kvccb5vx3y

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Jerry McGahan knew how to invent a new apple, catch a porcupine, and find a queen honeybee. Mostly he knew how to live, which meant he knew how to die. I wrote this essay about him: https://t.co/24I1ndaV2s

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I learned a lot writing for National Parks Magazine (@NPCA) about Manuel Chaves, a Hispanic Civil War Hero who also killed and enslaved Native Americans. https://t.co/XmMOw4HXLm

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Bravo, @stillsarita. Your reporting gets me every time. @newyorker https://t.co/ijcPCzSoZX

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After Trump restores military gear for police, one of America's most wanted is nabbed by Canadian cops, on bikes. https://t.co/mJ76WemKpc

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'We've paved roads in 120 plus.' My @outsidemagazine interview w/ #DeathValley Natnl Park employee, Matt MacIsaac: https://t.co/vtdaYu7ph7

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Art Woods dives for sea spiders in Antarctica. #cold. My @outsidemagazine interview: https://t.co/IlDnQeZab1

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Ashley Lehman's ecology work entails trench foot, poison trees, and saltwater crocs. My @outsidemagazine interview: https://t.co/9xIhleH9oh

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My story about #flyfishing the salmonfly hatch in #Montana is in the May issue of @rhapsodymag. https://t.co/7jQ20g5Ayt

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Thanks! @JessicaDHeadley

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@JessicaDHeadley Yes, that's mine!

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Thank you, @CarmenSisson. Lucky to have had Scott edit it.

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Thank you, @claragermani!