Science Night

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

91 episodes of Science Night since the first episode, which aired on May 18th, 2020.

  • A Conversation with Ellie McNutt

    October 2nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 16 secs
    anatomy, anthropology, biology, evolution, hominids, primates, scicomm, science, stem, usc, women in stem

    Ellie is a biological anthropologist that studies bipedalism in humans and an anatomy instructor at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. She's also a good friend that I've been excited to introduce you all to!

  • Miasma and Masks, The Deadliest Stink

    September 25th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 22 secs
    ancient medicine, greek history, history, medical history, medicine, sanitation, scicomm, science, victorian history

    Join us as we talk about miasma theory, the heroes of sanitation, and the development of medical masks. This is a clip from a live event that took place in the spring...when we were sure the pandemic would be over any minute.

  • Patrick Glauthier

    September 4th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  54 mins 29 secs
    ancient medicine, asclepius, classics, galen, greece, hippocrates, medical history, medicine, philosophy, rome, scicomm, science, scientific history

    A conversation with Dr. Patrick Glauthier

  • Episode 6: Binocular Vision

    August 28th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  18 mins 29 secs
    scicomm, science, vision

    Join me as I talk about vision in a medium in which you can see nothing...

  • The Science of Science Fiction from Gen Con Online

    August 5th, 2020  |  56 mins 5 secs
    anatomy, bigfoot, biology, cryptids, d&d, dungeons and dragons, evolution, games, gaming, geek, gen con. gencon, nerd, nessie, sci fi, scicomm, science, star wars, wookie, yeti

    Audio from the "Science of Science Fiction" from Gen Con Oline 2020 presented by Indiana Sciences.

  • Emily Cooper

    July 31st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 10 secs
    ar, augmented reality, neuroscience, scicomm, science, virtual reality, vision, vr

    My conversation with Emily Cooper

  • Angiosperm Coevolution Hypothesis

    July 17th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 28 secs
    anthropology, biology, evolution, flowers, plants, primates, scicomm, science
  • Jason Organ

    July 3rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 19 secs
    anatomy, anthropology, evolution, scicomm, science

    Jason is an anatomist at the Indiana University School of Medicine and an editor for the PLOS Scicomm Blog. In this episode we talk about his work, what brought him to it, and the importance of communicating science to the public.

  • The Life and Work of Mary Leakey

    June 20th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 52 secs
    anthropology, archaeology, evolution, paleontology, science

    Mary Leakey was an incredible paleoarchaeologist and made so many contributions to her field, but the average person knows so little about her. Join us as we take a deeper dive into her life and career in this followup episode.

  • Kathleen Muldoon

    June 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 33 secs
    anatomy, anthropology, scicomm, science

    I got to sit down with Dr. Kathleen Muldoon, a professor of anatomy at Midwestern University, a biological anthropologist who studies lemur evolution, and an awesome person. follow her twitter at @ProfMuldoon

  • Welcome to Science Night!

    May 18th, 2020  |  55 secs
    scicomm, science