I've gotten hooked on watching these TED talks. You should too.

Here's Peter Ward talking about mass extinctions. I like this because I saw Ward give a similar talk at NSF once, and meant to blog about it, but got distracted by a thousand other things, and now here it is, a year later, and I can finally showcase this talented scientist discussing his specialty:

It gets a little fringey towards the end with talk about battle wounds and preserving people, but I like scientists like Ward who think outside the box and connect up different perpectives and different fields of inquiry. Enjoy!

Labels: evolution, fossils