Pop science & outreach

Videos and podcasts

The Ancient History of Board Games - interviewed on Irish radio program newstalk

You're the Expert podcast - guest on episode of comedy-science radio program on WBUR NPR Boston

Neanderthal Class Videos - short videos about our extinct evolutionary cousins, produced by my Harvard class "HEB 1200 Neanderthals & Other Extinct Humans"

Harvard Horizons talk - 5 minute public lecture on "Identifying encounters between Neanderthals and modern humans through reliable radiocarbon dates"

Harvard Horizons talk

Microarchaeology at Ashkelon - see my in-field laboratory at the archaeology dig at Tel Ashkelon

Ashkelon lab

 

Writing

Atlas Obscura - Loved or Loathed: Can Madagascar's Aye-Aye Survive Superstition?
Smithsonian - Why Did Ancient Indigenous Groups in Brazil Hunt Sharks?
Science News - No more cuddly selfies with our ape cousins, top conservation body warns scientists
Science News - Tooth tartar could uncover drug habits of ancient people

Smithsonian - Ancient European Hunters Carved Human Bones Into Weapons

Science News - Shrine of decapitated heads suggests violence against foreigners in ancient Mexico

Audubon - Rulers of the Upper Realm, Thunderbirds are Powerful Native Spirits

Audubon - Journey Complete, Scott Edwards Looks Back on His Cross-Country Bicycling Trip

Discover - An Athletic Evolution

Smithsonian - Monkeys' Attraction to Burned Grasslands May Offer Clues to Human Ancestors' Mastery of Fire

Science News - Sacred site reveals how Indigenous people resisted colonial forces for 130 years

Audubon - Meet the Harvard Ornithology Professor Biking Across the Country

Discover - More than Child's Play

Discover - Brew's from a Cave Grave

Discover - The Lemur and the Lioness

Discover - A Matter of Life and Death

Discover - Lots o' Motza!

Discover - Stuck On You

Discover - Getting Naked

The Conversation - Plague was around for millennia before epidemics took hold

Since September 2018 I've been writing a regular online series, covering fundamental topics & classic tales from Anthropology for Discover:

Other Stories:

Discover - Everything Worth Knowing - Stress

Discover - Everything Worth Knowing - Monkeys

Discover - Are the Oldest Fossils Real - Or Just Rocks?

Discover - The World is Our Niche

Discover - To Sleep, Perchance to Evolve

Discover - Ancient DNA Starts Answering Archaeology's Big Questions

Discover - Drove Uncovers Ancient Irish Henge

Discover - Ancient Ice Reveals Insights into Roman Empire

Discover - Hopeful Monsters: What Defines a Species

Discover - Everything Worth Knowing - Neanderthals

Discover - Something Stirs: What Will Happen as Permafrost Thaws

Discover - The Great Aztec Temple

Discover - A Brush with a Feathered Foe

Discover - Stone Cold Science (how archaeologists study stone tools)

Discover - Unraveling a Secret (Inka khipu)

Discover online Bronze Age Teens Ate Dogs to Become Men

Discover - Everything Worth Knowing about Ancient DNA

Discover online - Untangling the Ancient Inca Code of Strings

The Conversation - DNA dating: How molecular clocks are refining human evolution's timeline

The Guardian Science blog network - Why we're closer than ever to a timeline for human evolution

During summer of 2016 I was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow, writing for Discover Magazine. My clips: