A competitive nominee in the “weirdest YouTube video about a theoretical...
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View ArticleShould conservation scientists also be advocates for particular policies?
Science Insider “Society for Conservation Biology in Turmoil Over Editor’s Ouster“
View ArticleRobert Krulwich on the value of telling stories about science
RadioLab “Tell Me a Story“
View ArticleRachel Carson still under attack for bringing her values to bear on her science
Slate “Rachel Carson Didn’t Kill Millions of Africans: How the 50-year-old campaign against Silent Spring still distorts environmental debates” There is a lot of interesting stuff here, including a...
View ArticleMegan Frederickson shares the wonder of ant cooperation with Toronto Library...
Toronto Public Library/University of Toronto Exploring Evolution series “The Evolution of Cooperation: Ant-Plant Associations in Peru” We need more scientists out there explaining the wonders of...
View ArticleUp-Goer Five text editor challenges you to make accessible explanations
Scientific American blogs “Science in Ten-Hundred Words: The “Up-Goer 5″ Challenge” THE UP-GOER FIVE TEXT EDITOR Oh, and by the way the title of this post would not pass the up-goer five test! Thanks...
View ArticleNice infographic on global and domestic food waste
KQED The Lowdown “Rot and Rubbish: The Rancid Truth About How Much Food We Waste“
View ArticleJohn Oliver holds first “balanced” climate debate on television
Click here to view the embedded video. Very nicely done! The monologue is great, but then the “performance” of the balanced climate change debate is really what drives home the point here. Don’t watch...
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Evolution 2014: The Evolution Film Festival was on fire!
The Evolution Film Festival was amazing! So many great films and such a wonderful, fun social atmosphere in which to enjoy them. The Evolution 2014 meeting would not be the same without these kinds of...
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Evolution 2014: Synthesis centers can serve as incubators if they buffer...
NESCent director Allen Rodrigo suggested that if synthesis centers want to serve as research incubators, they need to allow researchers to pursue risky research questions without having to pay the...
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Evolution 2014: Overall Impressions
Great organization of a great conference I had a great Evolution 2014 conference, and that has a lot to do with how it was organized. Raleigh was a nice location for the conference: it has an intimate...
View ArticleUrban Wildlife Podcast on big animals in big cities
Urban Wildlife Podcast “Bangkok Pythons and Gotham Whales” This is a really interesting podcast that focuses on the wildlife of cities. This episode is about huge animals that manage to live in close...
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Resources for writing a popular science book (and particularly a proposal)
Today is the first official day of my first-ever sabbatical. Although I have been trying to get some over-the-summer momentum going into this one-semester break from teaching and service duties, now...
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Returning (somewhat reluctantly) to Twitter
I used to have a Twitter account, but a few years back I decided to get rid of it… or — put more precisely — to neglect it. My reasons for avoiding Twitter and most definitely Facebook are pretty...
View ArticleEvolution 2016 meeting will feature evolution-themed art exhibit
I just got an announcement that there will be an evolution-themed art exhibit at next year’s Evolution meeting in Austin, Texas. It is exciting to see this meeting make so many cultural connections...
View ArticleFormation of the Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution has the...
I was excited to recently discover that The Evolution Institute, a “think-tank that doesn’t just think” about how to apply evolutionary understanding to human problems, is working to foster a new...
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I will speak about the tension between biological and cultural evolution at...
I am excited to announce that I am scheduled to speak about the tension between biological and cultural evolution at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. The title of my talk is “Highly-creative...
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Yeah, you can find me on Facebook and Google Plus now
A couple of months ago, as I was working on my first book proposal, I began to face some of my demons. The names of those demons are Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus. As I discussed in a previous...
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Pivot #1: My popular science book idea may not get picked up by a literary agent
I am now about halfway through a one-semester sabbatical. As I have posted about before, the central project of my sabbatical is a popular science book with the working title Breeders, Propagators,...
View ArticleOpen Book Publishers, an alternative model to academic presses
Open Book Publishers “Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model” Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3. This is a fascinating model, and one that I will be keeping in mind as I...
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