If you have some free time Thursday afternoon and live near Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., consider taking in this free lecture about communicating science, and specifically evolution, through comics from cartoonist and associate professor of biology Jay Hosler. Sounds very interesting, considering Hosler received a National Science Foundation grant to develop and test a chapter of a non-majors biology textbook in comic form.

However, should you be geographically challenged as I am to make it to the lecture, you’ll just have to be satisfied with listening to this 2006 podcast/interview with Hosler at Penn State University.

And, check out his Active Synapse Comics Web site too, where you can read an excerpt from his next book, Optical Allusions, a comic book funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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