Problematica

Short-ish Essays about Paleontology, Geology, and a Whole Bunch Else

Here is a complete archive of my (hypothetically) short essay series "Problematica," written for the Extinct blog. If you're interested in getting a feel for what I'm about as a researcher and a writer, this is the place to start. I've marked some of my favorite essays with an asterisk.

While these are blog posts, I've tried to infuse them with every bit as much rigor and originality as you'll find in my published work. In fact, I recognize no distinction in quality between the work I've done here and the work I've published in journals. (By the way– did you know that big publishing houses like Elsevier enjoy larger profit margins than Google by extracting tons of free labor from academics and then sending university libraries the bill? Start a blog. Or better, write for Extinct...)

I hope you enjoy them!