About Hypertextual
Hypertextual is a newsletter for people who like finding out how the world works, but do not want to spend their evenings reading papers, reports and half-broken archive pages.
Each issue does the hunting for you. It looks for the story hiding in a new study, an old map, a dataset, a historical footnote, a number or a piece of news. Then it explains what was found, why it matters and what the source actually says.
About me
I’m Elia Kabanov, a London-based science writer and data journalist. For more than twenty years, I’ve researched and written about science and technology, from mammoths in Siberia and new energy sources in Wales to climate change in Maine and generative AI. My work and expert comments have appeared in the BBC, The New York Times, Grist, Mother Jones, Slate, Le Monde and elsewhere.
Alongside science writing, I use data visualisation, maps and interactive stories to explain complex topics. You can see that work in my portfolio.
