UPCOMING TALKS AND APPEARANCES:
More events to be scheduled soon--come back for updates.
PREVIOUS TALKS AND APPEARANCES:
May 25, 2010
San Diego, CA
American Society for MIcrobiology
President's Forum: "Telling the Stories of Science"
April 27, 2010
Cambridge, MA
Genomes, Environment, Traits
April 24, 2010
Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
"H1N1, Evolution and the Public's Understanding of Science"
April 21, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Keith Klugman
Listen Here
April 17, 2010
Boston, MA
Massachusetts Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Keynote Lecture
April 07, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Peter Daszak
Listen Here
March 24, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Curtis Suttle
Listen Here
March 16, 2010
The Colin McEnroe Show (Connecticut Public radio)
Mr. Smarty Plants (Plant neurobiology)
March 4, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with James Collins
Listen Here
February 25, 2010
American Institute of Biological Sciences (webinar)
A virtual book party for The Tangled Bank
February 18, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Michael Worobey
Listen Here
February 3, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Rob Knight
Listen Here
January 25, 2010
Big Think
January 20, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Juilan Davies
Listen Here
January 16, 2009
Research Triangle Park, NC
Science Online 2010
Watch here
January 6, 2010
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Sallie Chisholm
Listen Here
January 6, 2010
New York, NY
A Conversation with Primatologist Frans de Waal.
Watch excerpts here
December 23, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with John Wooley
Listen Here
December 11, 2009
Amherst, MA
University of Massachusetts
December 7, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Paul Turner
Listen Here
December 3, 2009
Denver, CO
Denver Museum of Science
November 18, 2009
Vancouver, BC
Beatty Museum
Watch here
November 18, 2009
Vancouver, BC
A lecture on science writing at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism. Download podcast here or via iTunes
November 14, 2009
Ithaca, NY
Kol Haverim
November 12, 2009
New Haven, CT
Peabody Museum, Yale University
Nature's Narrative Lecture: "Darwin Gets Swine Flu"
Zimmer puts H1N1 in evolutionary context - Yale Daily News
November 4, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Jonathan Eisen
Listen Here
November 1, 2009
Pasadena, CA
The Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech
October 23, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Hazel Barton
Listen Here
October 9, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Dennis Bray
Listen Here
September 25, 2009
Radiolab (National Public Radio): Parasites .
September 12, 2009
New York, NY
Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism
September 11, 2009
Meet the Scientist (podcast): Interview with Michael Cunliffe
Listen Here
July 11, 2009
Bloggingheads: A conversation with science writer Chris Mooney
June 30, 2009
The Takeaway (National Public Radio)
: The Secret Love Life of Fireflies
Listen here
June 15, 2009
Radiolab (National Public Radio): "Stochasticity"
Listen here
June 11-14, 2009
New York, NY
World Science Festival
April 25, 2009
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Festival of Books: "Real Science"
April 17, 2009
New York, NY
New York University
"Darwin and the Boundaries of Science Conference"
Invited Speaker
March 29, 2009
The 2009 John Wesley Powell Memorial Lecture
"What Is Life? An Ancient Question Meets Twenty-First Century Science"
Slides and audio
March 27, 2009
Studio Tulsa (Oklahoma Public Radio)
"What Is Life?"
Listen here
March 15, 2009
Providence, RI
Brown University
"Science Meets Talk" (Invited lecture)
March 12, 2009
Santa Barbara, CA
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Soul Made Flesh: Neuroscience in 1659 and 2009"
February 19, 2009
Bloggingheads
A conversation with blogger Phil Plait
Watch
February 14, 2009
Raleigh, North Carolinia
North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
"Darwin and Beyond: How Evolution Is Evolving"
Youtube Video
February 14, 2009
Bloggingheads
A conversation with science writer John Horgan about Darwin's 200th birthday
Watch
January 5, 2009
Boston, MA
Society for Integrative and Comparitive Biology
Invited Speaker, "Communicating Science"
December 4, 2008
New York, NY
Rockefeller University
"The Darwin Beat: Reporting From the Frontiers of Evolution"
Listen
November 23, 2008
Bloggingheads
A conversation with earth scientist Tyler Volk about global warming
Watch
November 19, 2008
Philadelphia, PA
The Franklin Institute
"Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain"
Watch
November 13, 2008
"Word of Mouth" (New Hampshire Public Radio)
"Molecular Family Dysfunction"
Listen
November 11, 2008
"The Takeaway" (National Public Radio)
Listen
October 1, 2008
"Science Talk" (Scientific American Podcast)
"Searching for Intelligence"
Listen
September 29, 2008
"Word of Mouth" (New Hampshire Public Radio)
What is Intelligence?
Listen
September 17, 2008
Hoboken, NJ
The Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology
August 30, 2008
Bloggingheads: Conversation with the writer Richard Preston
August 19, 2008
Chautauqua, NY
The Chautauqua Institution
Darwin and Linnaeus: Their Impact on Our View of the Natural World
June 28, 2008
Arlington, TX
American Society of Parasitologists
Parasitology: Public Awareness through Literature, Art, and Film
June 28, 2008
Bloggingheads: A conversation with conservation biologist Paul Ehrlich
June 25, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Zocalo Lecture Series
June 12, 2008
Madison, CT
RJ Julia
June 10, 2008
This Week In Science (radio/podcast)
June 9, 2008
Talk of the Bay, KUSP Santa Cruz (radio)
June 3, 2008
Seattle, WA
Town Hall
Listen to Carl's Town Hall lecture here
June 2, 2008
San Francisco, CA
Kepler's Books
June 1, 2008
Portland, OR,
Powell's Bookstore
Read Carl's Q&A for Powell's on Microcosm
May 31, 2008
New York, NY
World Science Festival: Seeds, Survival, and Stalin
Watch Carl talk with fellow panelist Peter Pringle on bloggingheads.tv
May 29, 2008
New York, NY
World Science Festival: Bioart in the Age of Terrorism
Watch the discussion on YouTube
May 21, 2008
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
May 20, 2008
New York, NY
SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Poster )
"The Evolution of Mind"
Watch
May 17, 2008
Chicago, IL
The Field Museum
May 16, 2008
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Bookstore
May 10, 2008
Coast to Coast AM (Radio)
May 10, 2008
Bloggingheads.tv
A talk about Microcosm with science writer George Johnson
April 15, 2008
Denver, Colorado
University of Denver Penrose Library Authors Lecture
Public Lecture: A discussion of Soul Made Flesh and the art of writing science books
"Science Writer Discusses Research on the Brain," DU Today
April 12, 2008
Bloggingheads.tv
Carl speaks with neuroscientist Gary Marcus about the evolution of the mind
March 10, 2008
Sarasota, Florida
Mote Marine Laboratory
Public Lecture: "Back to the Water: The Origin of Whales"
March 1, 2008
Bloggingheads.tv
Carl speaks with neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga about the brain and the law
February 27, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Carleton University
The Discovery Lecture: "The Darwin Beat: Dispatches from the Frontier of Evolution"
Watch it on blip.tv:
February 19, 2008
Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT/Knight Science Journalism Fellowships
"The Future of Science Journalism"
Panel on science blogging
February 8, 2008
Lincoln, Nebraska
University of Nebraska
Darwin Day Public Lecture: "Darwin Among the Microbes"
February 2, 2008
Bloggingheads.tv
Carl speaks with astrobiologist Peter Ward about alien life
January 29 and Feburary 5, 2008
New Haven, CT
Yale University
Science Writing Workshop (poster pdf )
(Check back for a podcast version on Itunes...)
January 17, 2008
Rome, Italy
Rome Festival of Science
Public Lecture: "Towards the Sixth Mass Extinction"
January 12, 2008
Bloggingheads.tv
Carl speaks with paleontologist Neil Shubin about our inner fish
December 15, 2007
Bloggingheads.tv
Carl speaks with biologist Lee Silver about stem cell ethics
December 1, 2007 (radio)
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
"'Animal, Vegetable, Fungi' Lesson Revised" Listen
November 30, 2007 (video podcast)
Bloggingheads
A conversation with Prof. Lee Silver on the future of stem cells Video
October 30, 2007 (television)
ABC World News Tonight
Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall? Video Article
October 28, 2007 (video podcast)
Bloggingheads
A conversation with Craig Venter, genome pioneer Video
October 18, 2007
Guilford, CT
Guilford Free Library
Public Lecture: "Will Global Warming Redraw the Map of Life?"
September 29, 2007 (video podcast)
Bloggingheads
A conversation with science writer John Horgan Video
August 14, 2007
Appledore Island, Maine
Shoals Marine Laboratory
Public Lecture: "The Genome: An Outsider's View" Blog post
August 11, 2007 (television)
WTNH News, New Haven, CT
Human evolution
June 11, 2007 (podcast)
The New York Times Science Podcast
A conversation about my article on Sudan's great migrations
April 4, 2007
New York, NY
New York University School of Journalism
Invited lecture on blogging about science. Summary with podcast excerpts
March 29, 2007
Southern Utah University
Public Lecture: "What is Life? The Answer from E. coli"
March 27, 2007
Southern Utah University
Public Lecture: "Will Global Warming Redraw the Map of Life?"
January 10, 2007 (podcast)
Science Talk: The Scientific American podcast
A conversation about my article about the evolution of cancer
Decemer 26, 2006 (podcast)
The New York Times Science Podcast
A conversation about my article about deception by animals
November 8, 2006
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University
University Lecture: "Possessed: The Biology of Parasite Manipulation"
Video , Powerpoint
November 3, 2006
New Haven, CT
Yale University
A talk on science writing
Master's Tea, Davenport College
October 28, 2006
Baltimore, MD
National Association of Science Writers
Panel: "Book PR Boot Camp"
September 21, 2006
South Bend, Indiana
University of Notre Dame
Inaugural lecture in the Global Linkages of Biology, Environment and Society (GLOBES) Seminar Series: "The Darwin Beat: Reporting Evolution News in a Controversial Age"
September 5, 2006 (podcast)
The New York Times Science Podcast
A conversation about my article about sexual cannibals
June 9, 2006
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Marine Biological Laboratory
Invited Public Lecture: "Where Do We Come From?"
April 4, 2006
Venice, Italy
RECOMB 2006: International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
Keynote Lecture: "An Outsider's View of the Genome"
February 13, 2006
New Haven, CT
Yale University
Panel discussion for premiere of the movie Flock of Dodos
February 6, 2006
Princeton, NJ
Princeton University
"Evolution in the News"
January 26, 2006
Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins University
"Possessed: The Biology of Parasite Manipulation"
January 19, 2006
Guilford, CT
Guilford Free Library
"Human Origins in a Controversial Age"
January 14, 2006
Ann Arbor, MI
Exhibit Museum of Natural History at the University of Michigan
"Evolution in the News"
(Part of the opening celebration for the museum's new exhibit, Explore Evolution )
December 3, 2005
Washington, DC
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Executive Panel on Evolution
"Updating Human Evolution"
October 25, 2005
Westport, CT
Westport Library
Community Conversation: "Human Origins in a Controversial Age"
October 22, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA
National Association of Science Writers
A panel discussing science blogs
October 6, 2005
Yale University Medical School
A lecture on Soul Made Flesh
September 28, 2005
Swarthmore, PA
Swarthmore College
Public Lecture: "Human Origins in a Controversial Age"
April 1, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference
Keynote Speaker
March 28, 2005 (radio )
On Point , National Public Radio
January 13, 2005
New Haven, CT
The Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale Medical School
November 24, 2004 (radio )
The Current , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
September 28, 2004
New Haven, CT
Visiting Fellow, Morse College, Yale University
September 22, 2004
Cleveland, Ohio
John Carroll University
Freshman Seminar Lecture
May 26, 2004 (radio )
Afternoon Magazine WILL-FM Urbana, Illinois (NPR)
May 8, 2004 (radio )
All in the Mind, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
May 6, 2004
Providence, RI
Brown University
Invited Lecture: Frontiers in the Interaction Between Physics and Biology
April 22, 2004 (radio )
New York and Company with Leonard Lopate, WNYC
April 15, 2004
New York
Wagner College
April 7, 2004
Oxford, England
Oxford University Museum of the History of Science
April 6, 2004
Bristol, England
Blackwell's Bookshop (Park St.)
BBC article on the event
March 25-26, 2004
Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Book Festival
March 20, 9 AM EST
(television)
BookTV on CSPAN
March 12, 2004
San Antonio, TX
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
February 23, 2004
Palo Alto, CA
Stanford Medical School
February 14, 2004
(television)
ABC World News Tonight
February 11, 2004
(television)
ABC World News Now
February 9, 2004
(radio)
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
NPR
January 30, 2004
(radio)
Conner Calling
WUFT-FM, Gainesville, Florida.
noon
January 27, 2004
New York
New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library
188 Madison Avenue
5:30 pm
January 27, 2004
New York
KGB , 85 East 4th St.
7 pm
January 22, 2004
Madison, CT
RJ Julia Bookstore
7 pm
January 20, 2004
New York
92nd St. Y , Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street.
12 pm
January 8, 2004
Washington DC
Reiter's Bookstore , 2021 K St.
6:30 pm
January 5, 2004 (radio )
New York and Company with Leonard Lopate, WNYC
(New York) 12:40-1:20pm
November 25, 2003
KVMR Radio (89.5 FM, Nevada City, California)
November 3, 2003
University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley. Details
November 4, 2003
University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse. Details
October 2003
Explorations with Michio Kaku (Pacifica Radio)
Broadcasts included:
--Tuesday 9/30, 2pm (PST) KPSA, San Franscisco
--Wednesday 10/1, 5pm (EST) WBAI, New York
--Thursday, 10/4, 1pm (PST) KPFK, Los Angeles
--Tuesday 10/7 (EST) WMNF, Tampa; and 5pm (PST) on KPFA Berkeley, CA 94.1 FM
September 2, 2003
BBC World Service. Outlook .
July 18, 2003
This American Life (Public Radio International) Listen to the show on Real Audio here . Ira Glass interviews me about the wonders of parasites starting at 23:00.
July 17, 2002
KGB, New York
December 2002
WGN-AM Chicago
The Gary Lee Wright Show
November 2002
WIP-AM Philadelphia
Conversations with Peter Solomon
November 2002
KVON-AM San Francisco
Morning Edition
October 2002
Daybreak USA
USA Radio Network
October 2002
Northeast Public Radio: Roundtable
October 2002
WZLX-FM Boston
Common Ground
October 2002
KWRD-FM Dallas
Morning Magazine
October 2002
KTKT AM Tuscon
The Bert Lee Show
October 2002
Newsworthy Network
October 2002
KFTK-FM, St. Louis
The Dave Glover Show
October 2002
WLIE-AM Long Island, NY
The Ed Tyll Show
October 2002
WXXI-AM Rochester
1370 Connection with Bob Smith
October 2002
Plenary lecture, National Association of Biology Teachers, Cincinnati OH.
May 2002
Brighton Book Festival (UK)
March 2002
American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington DC
March 2002
National Science Teachers’ Association, San Diego
Feburary 2002
Florida Museum of Natural History
February 2002
WUFT-FM National Public Radio, Gainesville, Florida
Connor Calling
January 2002
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California
December 2001
Geological Society of America, Boston,
November 2001
Explorations with Michio Kaku (Pacifica Radio)
October 2001
American Museum of Natural History
October 2001
Smithsonian Institution
October 2001
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
October 2001
University of Washington, Seattle
October 2001
University of Kansas, Kansas City,
September 2001
Morning Show (National Public Radio, Los Angeles)
September 2001
Daybreak USA (AM radio)
September 2001
Touch of Gray (AM radio)
September 2001
New York and Company (National Public Radio)
June 2001
Jeff Rense Show (AM Radio)
February 2001
New York University, Biology Department
November 2000
Miami Book Fair
December 2000
Quirks and Quarks (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
December 2000
Strange Universe (AM radio)
November 2000
New York & Company (National Public Radio)
November 2000
Edge of Reality (AM Radio)
October 2000
American Museum of Natural History
October 2000
Coast to Coast AM
October 2000
Good Day USA (AM radio)
October 2000
The Todd Mundt Show (National Public Radio)
October 2000
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University
October 2000
Smithsonian Institution
October 2000
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology seminar
October 2000
National Conference on the Teaching of Evolution
University of California, Berkeley.
August 2000
To the Best of Our Knowledge (Public Radio International)
October 1999
"Chaos in Ecology"
Complexity and Complex Systems lecture series, University of Virginia
February 1999
Conservancy of Southwest Florida
October 1998
California Academy of Natural Sciences
October 1998
Tech Nation (National Public Radio)
July 1998
To The Best of Our Knowledge (Public Radio International)
April 1998
American Museum of Natural History
April 1998
Smithsonian Institution