Darwin Day in St. Louis
Next Saturday, February 9, I will be in St. Louis speaking at the Darwin Day event at Washington University: “Institute for School Partnership: 2019 Darwin D...
Next Saturday, February 9, I will be in St. Louis speaking at the Darwin Day event at Washington University: “Institute for School Partnership: 2019 Darwin D...
I’ll be in Israel this week to present a lecture for a symposium of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The theme of the symposium is, “Time”, and...
This is a short-notice update, but if you are in the Atlanta area, I’ll be giving a lecture Thursday afternoon, February 25 for the Center for Mind, Brain an...
On October 2, I will be participating in a public symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, titled “The Past, Present, a...
I am back in Johannesburg this week and next, working with the fossil collection at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Next Monday I’ll be delivering the 2014 Kalb Lecture for the Department of History at Rice University. The lecture will review the ways that genetics is addi...
I imagine my static website for the past three weeks left many people wondering if the Science Cafe led to my untimely demise. “Who Sciences Harder” indeed!
Another beautiful view from last week’s travel in Ethiopia:
Moonset in Turmi, Ethiopia:
I spent the last week trekking through southern Ethiopia.
I will be flying to South Africa on Friday to take (an exceedingly small) part in a unique excavation just getting started in the Cradle of Humankind World H...
I hiked to Amud Cave today with Clive Finlayson. It’s a short hike on a well-marked trail, up the Wadi Amud. The word means “pillar”, and you can see the dra...
Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the official event recognizing the creation of the “Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel” UNESCO World Heritage S...
I’m writing from Israel this week, where I am visiting a number of archaeological sites. Yesterday Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai generously gave me a tour of Qes...
I was in Willendorf, Austria, on Sunday getting a tour of the recent archaeological work there. It is the site where the classic “Venus of Willendorf” was fo...
I am visiting Tbilisi this week to examine the Dmanisi skeletal collection and to shoot some footage for my upcoming massive open online course (MOOC), “Huma...
Action-packed day today as I did some filming with Matt Sponheimer and a great team of scientists doing some field ecology in the Cradle nature reserve. The ...
I’m in South Africa this month doing some work, so I haven’t had time to post quite as often as usual. In the meantime, I will share a few photos as I go. Mo...
I went to a famous place today:
I will be traveling south this week to give a pair of lectures at the University of Alabama. On Thursday night, I will be giving a lecture in the ALLELE (ALa...
I’ll be flying out to Colorado next week for a lecture in Boulder. The lecture is Friday, October 12, at 4:00 pm, in Hale Science 270. I’ll be excited to see...
From last week’s trip to Gibraltar, here’s a view from the inside of Vanguard Cave, looking out across the Mediterranean to the east:
I’ve arrived in Gibraltar and am settling down after a fairly long travel. Here’s the view to the west toward the Strait.
Mount Merapi, the active volcano outside Yogyakarta, at sunset as our car dropped us at the Solo airport:
There are many stories from my travels last summer that I haven’t yet told here. I’ve been thinking that I need to get them written down, so that I’ll have m...
Here’s another scene from the Smithsonian this weekend, this one of the mounted skeletons of the famous anthropologist Grover Krantz and his canine companion...
I’m on the road this week in Washington, D.C. I’m participating in a workshop involving biology education in high school, at the National Museum of Natural H...
I will be in Ann Arbor next week visiting the University of Michigan. For those in the area, I’ll be giving a seminar next Wednesday, February 15.
I’m in Bordeaux for the rest of this week, taking part in the meetings of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. The city is just as beautiful as I remember!
Today I visited Down House, Charles Darwin’s home southeast of London. Mark Pallen, my gracious host from the University of Birmingham, brought us to the hou...
I’ll be in the U.K. the rest of this week. The University of Birmingham has invited me to give a lecture for their “Great Read” event as they begin the new a...
On July 3, around 20 scientists left Novosibirsk by van to drive out to the permanent field camp at Denisova Cave in the low Altai mountains. The place is 52...
I’m visiting at the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand this week. Lee Berger has been a really wonderful host and among other t...
By the miracle of Amazon, I have been using my Kindle 3G to tweet from the Altai. It is far from an ideal blogging tool, so I will keep this to a short updat...
I have now reached Novosibirsk and will be offline for a bit more than a week. In the interim, this may be interesting: “ScienceOnline2011 interview with Jo...
Our Lady of Eternal Osteology:
Re: “Death and the anthropologist”
Sunday’s travel theme here in Rome was death.
Left at the altar?
Yesterday I had the distinctive experience as a judge of a scientific poster session, featuring the work of Italian high school students. The session was in ...
In Orvieto:
Egyptian porphyry speaks of zephyrs:
Today I went to the Vatican Museum. I haven’t done all that many travel updates here, but I’m going to do more of them this summer because I have some intere...
Santa Maria in Trastevere, and the moon.
Yesterday, I spent the day in Bologna, famous for its long arcades.
After yesterday’s post, I was forwarded a few pictures by the Naturalis photographer of the event Saturday:
I’ve just returned from a week in Leiden, the old university city of the Netherlands. I was a guest of the archaeology faculty, in particular Wil Roebroeks a...
Yes, I know my class is going on right now. The students are in good hands, learning about hobbit brains. Meanwhile…
I’m in Big Sky, Montana the next couple of days. Here’s a shot: