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
Walks of Life. Scientific American. 327, 5, 72-81. 2022.
Hominins on the Move. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. 2021.
Celebrating a Century of Human Fossils from Africa. The Medium. 2021.
On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking. Literary Hub. 2021.
A Single Triple. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. 2021.
A Most Interesting Problem. Ideas blog of Princeton University Press. January, 2021.
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
Big Picture Science. What Moves Us? (2025)
Talking Apes. Tracing our Footsteps Through Time (2025)
The Dissenter. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (2024).
On Humans. Walking towards the Human Condition (2023).
War on Cars. The Pedestrian (2022).
Many Minds. Why Did Our Brains Shrink 3000 Years Ago? (2022)
The Neanderthal Mind Podcast. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (2022)
Made of Stronger Stuff. Feet (2022)
Sausage of Science podast. A Most Interesting Problem and First Steps (2021).
Big Picture Science. Walking Tall (2021)
Converging Dialogues. The Importance of Bipedalism (2021).
Science Night. First Steps (2021).
New Books Network. First Steps (2021).
World of Anthropology (2021)
Evolution Soup with Mark Torrender (2021)
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
Let’s Talk with Bill Padley. Talk Radio Europe. 2021.
Moncrieff Show with Seán Moncrief (Ireland). How Humans Evolved to Use Two Legs. 2021.
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
C-Span interview on First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human. 2021.
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 Board of Trustees (2021-present)
Co-author of Montshire Museum Statement on Teaching Evolution.