The book began as an Atlantic Monthly centerpiece article that was included in The Best American Science Writing.
Corson has been a frequent public speaker and his work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, NPR's All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, WNYC's Radiolab, the podcast Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer, as well as numerous local television and radio programs; he has also appeared on the Food Network’s hit TV show Iron Chef America.
Corson began his journalism career as an intern at The Atlantic Monthly and soon started publishing articles in the magazine.
in the Investigative Science Journalism Boot Camp and in 2008 he was a Visiting Writer in the University of Memphis MFA program.
Corson subsequently served as Lecturer & Course Co-director in American Studies in Columbia's Undergraduate Writing Program.