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Who?

Contributing writer at Washingtonian magazine. More words in Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ, Popular Mechanics, and many others.

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Mostly technology, science, and business, plus profiles on people who do, and don't do, work in those fields.

  • Latest feature: in GQ, about Rolex university, where a new generation of watchmakers learn to repair the world’s most luxurious watches.

Email: ajzaleski@gmail.com // ajzaleski@protonmail.com. Also on Signal.

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020, which includes, on page 324, my article from 2019 about Tanner Collins, the 6-year-old boy who had one-sixth of his brain removed — and turned out to be fine, thanks to the brain’s amazing neuroplastic abilities.