Reviews for Consider the Platypus
Posted: January 29, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHonored and humbled by response to my first book, Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology’s Most Baffling Beasts, available now wherever books are sold:
- Wall Street Journal – “What to Give” nature books gift guide
- American Scientist – Science Book Gift Guide
- Minnesota Book Awards – Finalist in General Nonfiction
- Ars Tecnica – Science and tech book review
- Queensland Reviewers Collective – book review
“Victoria the T. rex” now open in AZ
Posted: January 29, 2020 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment“Victoria” is a newly discovered T. rex specimen, the second largest and most complete known to science (after Sue, at the Field Museum). I had the great honor and joy of developing the touring exhibition around her, open now at the Arizona Science Center. Check out the suuuuper flashy trailer for the exhibtion, Victoria the T. rex, below:
Consider the Platypus up for Pre-Order
Posted: June 20, 2019 Filed under: Art, Books, Dolphins, Nonfiction, Science, Speaking, Writing | Tags: art, Books, Science Leave a commentThis is happening! Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology’s Most Baffling Beasts drops August 27th.
Pre-order now: at Amazon if you must, Barnes and Noble, or at your local bookstore via indiebound [www.indiebound.org/book/9780316418393].
Tell your libraries! And schools! And anyone who wonders or wants to know more about how we all got here.
Deepest thanks to Hachette, Black Dog and Leventhal, and all those folks who helped make this happen. You are good creatures.
If All Water Were Blood
Posted: January 5, 2019 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 CommentsI’m honored to finally have this piece in print, after having read and kneaded and baked it for years now. Thank you yet again to the powerful people of Paper Darts.
Consider the Platypus
Posted: January 5, 2019 Filed under: Books, Nonfiction, Science, Writing | Tags: Books, scicomm Leave a comment…Is the actual, updated name of my aforementioned and forthcoming illustrated nonfiction book for adults and curious kids. Sneak peeks soon! Stay tuned.
Evolution Book on the Books
Posted: February 28, 2018 Filed under: Nonfiction, Research, Science, Writing | Tags: Books Leave a commentI’m pleased to [pass along this] announce[ment awkwardly screengrabbed months ago from Publisher’s Marketplace]…
Broadcast Know-It-All
Posted: July 9, 2017 Filed under: Comedy, Dolphins, Interactive, Performance, Podcast, Production, Radio, Science, Speaking | Tags: audio, education, humor, radio, scicomm, Science Leave a commentReady your ears to get SCHOOLED, folks, ’cause I’m playing Fact Checker on Season 3 of the Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Podcast (starring Freakonomic’s Stephen Dubner)!
First Minneapolis episode: “Three Sheets to the Wind” with special guest John Moe. They named they episode after one of my facts! And about all the drunk talk featured in the episode.
Second Minneapolis episode: “Creature Comforts” with special guest Krista Tippet. That one has a lot of sex talk.
Woman on the Street, Hot Seat
Posted: April 14, 2017 Filed under: Comedy, Dolphins, Interactive, Performance, Production, Science, Television Leave a commentI finally gathered up some of my science talking and slapped it into a highlights reel. While the video’s still private, I share it with you now, via THIS “EXCLUSIVE” LINK (and below).
More footage upon request. AMA 4ever.
How to Be a Dolphin (Not a Hippie)
Posted: July 6, 2016 Filed under: Dolphins, Nonfiction, Science, Writing Leave a commentMy latest for Nautil.us. It was only a matter of time.
Science Comedy & Regular Comedy
Posted: May 25, 2016 Filed under: Comedy, Interview, Performance, Production, Radio, Research, Science, Speaking, Storytelling | Tags: Podcast, Regret Labs Leave a commentStorytelling is a thing that I do, and here’s a video of a recent gig. The story I tell is not scientific––OR IS IT…?
It is also my pleasure to introduce Regret Labs, a Science/Comedy podcast to which my fellow comedians Levi Weinhagen and Aric McKeown invited me because they needed a little more science for their not-so-much-science.
This is the kind of podcast where people talk over each other sometimes. Into it? Not into it? Drop a comment on the site to let us know.
Mandford