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I'm a freelance writer and illustrator. Before that I was a contributing editor and illustrator at Seed magazine and a researcher at Wired. I've written about science, history and music for The Atavist, Mother Jones, Seed, Scientific American Mind, The Rumpus and The Morning News. Below is a selection of my recent work. A complete list of my published articles and illustrations can be found here. Follow me on twitter @joekloc.

Complete List of Published Work

The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks

February 22, 2012
The Atavist

Post-it Notes from the Underground #3

November 1, 2011
The Rumpus

Post-it Notes from the Underground #2

October 31, 2011
The Rumpus

Post-it Notes from the Underground #1

October 26, 2011
The Rumpus

Illustrations for “Reading Between the Genes”

May 13, 2011
Berkeley Science
Review

The Man the Blues Forgot

May 2, 2011
Mother Jones

Fascinated by Fear

April 22, 2011
Scientific American
Mind

The Downside of Hope

April 22, 2011
Scientific American
Mind

In Defense of Bob Dylan

April 13, 2011
Mother Jones

The Mystery of Stack-O-Lee

April 4, 2011
Mother Jones

A Goodbye to Bluesman Pinetop Perkins

March 28, 2011
Mother Jones

Japanese Nuclear Reactor Systems Drawn Like a NYC Subway Map

March 22, 2011
Mother Jones

Last Trace of Amede Ardoin

March 7, 2011
Mother Jones

You’re Trammeling My Bears

March 4, 2011
Mother Jones

On Curing Everything

March 2, 2011
Seed magazine

The Illustrated Guide to Epigenetics

February 8, 2011
Mother Jones

Sam Cooke’s Wild Side

January 24, 2011
Mother Jones

From Reykjavik with Love

November 20, 2010
Mother Jones

The Missile (Disarmament) Crisis

October 28, 2010
Mother Jones

What’s In Your Placebo?

October 23, 2010
Mother Jones

The Recession—Might—be Tweeted

October 19, 2010
Mother Jones

Can Physics Predict Economic Recessions?

October 8, 2010
Mother Jones

Paleo’s Sunday Prayers from the Open Road

September 13, 2010
Mother Jones

A Historical Precedent for the Beastie Boys?

September 6, 2010
Mother Jones

Songs from the Sunken Battleships of Bloody Wars

August 30, 2010
Mother Jones

How to Avoid Being Crushed to Death at a Concert

August 23, 2010
Mother Jones

Professor McCain on Bad Science

August 6, 2010
Mother Jones

Improving Malaria Treatment…or, Why You Should Have Paid Attention in Geometry Class

August 4, 2010
Mother Jones

Elections in the Garden of Good and Evil

July 30, 2010
Mother Jones

The Long Life and Short Fame of Bluesman Junior Kimbrough

July 26, 2010
Mother Jones

Reading, Rapping, and Arithmetic

July 12, 2010
Mother Jones

How Cocaine Works in the Addict’s Brain

June 29, 2010
Mother Jones

No Nation Is an Island When It Comes to Malaria

June 23, 2010
Mother Jones

Is English Killing Other Languages?

June 21, 2010
Mother Jones

Fact-checking the Life and Death of Bluesman Robert Johnson

June 21, 2010
Mother Jones

Get Hyphenated

April 6, 2010
The Morning News

Long time Coming

March 26, 2010
Seed magazine

Yellow, Black, and Blues

February 15, 2010
Seed magazine

Winds of Change

December 21, 2009
Seed magazine

Into the Uncanny Valley

November 16, 2009
Seed magazine

Blueprinting Biology

September 28, 2009
Seed magazine

the Evolution of Evolution

September 10, 2009
Seed magazine

the Wagnerian Method

August 20, 2009
Seed magazine

Invoking the Magic of the Mind

June 25, 2009
Seed magazine

the Parasite Puzzle

April 27, 2009
Seed magazine

Automatic for the People

April 2, 2009
Seed magazine

the Living Robot

March 26, 2009
Seed magazine

Seeing in the Dark

January 14, 2009
Seed magazine

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Top image: Illustration of Italo Calvino's "The Distance of the Moon" by Joe Kloc. Bottom image: Illustrations of California's inshore fish by Joe Kloc.