From 1998-2003, I worked as an educator at the Boston Museum of Science. I remain passionate about science literacy and education, and regularly give public talks, visit K-12 classrooms, and skype with classrooms through Skype with a Scientist. I am happy to host K-12 classroom visits to my paleoanthropology lab at Dartmouth. Contact me if you would like your class to learn more about bones, fossils, and/or human evolution.
1. Op-Eds, Blogs, and Columns
A Most Interesting Problem. Ideas blog of Princeton University Press. January, 2020.
Don’t brag about your large brain, President Trump. Scientific American. October 2, 2018.
Where Do We Begin? Natural History. 126, 10-12. 2018
Steven Spielberg, E.T., and the Mistrust of Science. The Medium. March 30, 2018.
The Face of Science has Died: Remembering Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). Los Angeles Review of Books. March 25, 2018
Column: N.H. Education Pick has Something to Learn about Science. Valley News. February 8, 2017.
Why Walk on Two Legs? Leakey Foundation guest blog. March 6, 2015.
2. Podcasts
You have to walk before you can run. podcast January, 2019. Running for Science: Science for Running (Host: Adam van Arsdale)
Boston Museum of Science
New Homo naledi fossils. podcast May, 2017.
Discovery of Homo naledi. podcast. September, 2015.
Rising Star expedition. podcast. December, 2013.
How did Australopithecus sediba walk?. podcast. May, 2013.
Australopithecus sediba. podcast. October 2011
Ardipithecus ramidus. podcast. October, 2009.
Hominin locomotion. podcast. May, 2009.
Evolution of human birth. podcast. Nov, 2008.
Chimpanzee research. podcast. May, 2007.
Science magazine
Science magazine podcast on Australopithecus sediba fossils. April, 2013.
Science magazine podcast: The Scars of Human Evolution. February, 2013.
3. Radio interviews
Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) interview about discovery of ancient toddler foot. 2018.
Interviewed about recent discoveries in human evolution for “The Briefing” on Sirius XM. 2017.
Vermont Public Radio on Homo naledi coming to the Montshire Museum.
BBC radio interview on the Scars of Human Evolution, 2013
Interviewed on Voice America radio show “Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology” on early hominin evolution. 2013.
Interviewed on As it Happens with Carol Off on human foot research 2013.
Research on Australopithecus infants covered on NPR. 2011.
4. Television
CBS interview on Australopithecus sediba fossils. January, 2019
Appeared in Two Million Year Old Boy. National Geographic Channel. 2012
Appeared in Origins of Us. BBC Science with Alice Roberts. 2011
5. Montshire Museum
Member of the Montshire Museum of Science Corporation and Program Committee. 2016-present
Co-author of Montshire Museum Statement on Teaching Evolution.
6. The Wildebeest Tail
The Wildebeest Tail is a non-profit developed by a former Massachusetts Middle School teacher, Peg Van Andel, which promotes science education by giving away science dictionaries to students interested in science. To learn more, click here, or contact me directly.