Public talks

Extinction: Death and Memory

• A comparison of different metaphors for understanding extinction

Baby Yoda’s Natural History

• How science and philosophy combine to resolve one of the most enduring mysteries in Star Wars

Star Wars Extraterrestrials, Evolution, and Ethics

• What the evolutionary relations between Star Wars aliens can tell us about how to treat other humans

Ancient Oregon: Where the Dinosaurs didn't roam

• A tour through Oregon's (largely dinosaur-less) natural history

What, if anything, is a Tyrannosaurus rex?

• How naming does and doesn't work in paleontology

"Fuzzy" Logic: Assessing the Evidence for Dinosaur Feathers

• How science and philosophy combined to put feathers on Velociraptor and its kin

Dinosaur Philosophy

• What is a dinosaur? Now we're getting philosophical