Lina Zeldovich
Author bio

Lina Zeldovich grew up watching her grandfather fertilize the family’s organic orchard with composted sewage and thought that the whole world did the same. Thirty years later, she had won four awards for covering the science of poo and written a book focusing on the novel solutions to the world’s oldest problem—keeping humans free from their own excrement. In writing The Other Dark Matter, she toured a slew of smelly sewage plants, hopped over many stinky street gutters, stuck her nose into a stool bank—and lived to tell the story. When she isn’t digging into humanure in India, Madagascar, or North America, she lives in New York City and tends to a compost pile in her backyard.
Sep 27, 2024 | 850 words, about 4 minutes
Nov 16, 2021 | 2,100 words, about 10 minutes
Feb 9, 2021 | 1,100 words, about 5 minutes
Apr 15, 2019 | 700 words, about 3 minutes
Feb 5, 2019 | 4,200 words, about 21 minutes
May 17, 2018 | 550 words, about 2 minutes
Jan 15, 2018 | 700 words, about 3 minutes
Sep 28, 2017 | 900 words, about 4 minutes
Mar 21, 2017 | 2,300 words, about 16 minutes
Jun 28, 2016 | 3,900 words, about 20 minutes
Aug 31, 2015 | 3,200 words, about 16 minutes
Aug 21, 2015 | 3 min 30 sec
Apr 22, 2015 | 3,600 words, about 18 minutes