Science Night
A place for scientists to tell their story.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 16 in total of Science Night with the tag “anthropology”.
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It's An Alien Invasion!
November 30th, 2023 | Season 3 | 27 mins 27 secs
alien, alien mummy, aliens, ancient aliens, anthropology, dark forest, et, extraterrestrials, game theory, hoax, nazca lines, scicomm, science, twilight zone, uap, ufo
This week we're talking about some out-of-this-world science!! The aliens have arrived at Science Night! We're talking about ancient alien evidence, UAP FAQs, and we walk through a dark forest to talk about why we're so afraid of visitors from another planet.
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Sports in the Climate Era
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 37 secs
anthropology, archaeology, baseball, bronze age, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, fifa, football, fusion energy, global warming, horses, indigenous, native american, nuclear fusion, pegasus iii, psychedelics, scicomm, science, soccer, sports, tokamak
Coming up to bat, we have four scicomm stories from the news. First, we talk about psychedelic substance use in the Bronze Age. Next, we're re-examining the origin of horses in indigenous communities in North America. To round out the first half, we have our favorite new segment where Dr. Diem clears up the fusion confusion. In the second half, we're looking at sports in the climate era, where Jason laments the death of baseball, James relives a Red October to remember, and Steffi thinks about life in the white tent.
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A Fireside Chat with Kate Miller
December 14th, 2022 | Season 3 | 37 mins 59 secs
ai, anthropology, artificial intelligence, astronomy, bio anthro, biological anthropology, black hole, epidemiology, fire, hominid, hominin, homo naledi, rising star cave, scicomm, science
This week we’re looking at three bits of science news with special guest Kate Miller. First we ask, “do we really need an ai diarrhea detector”? Then we watch a light show 8.2 billion years in the making. In the second half, we gather around the fire to talk about a new discovery from the Rising Star in South Africa.
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Open Science with Prof. Lee Berger
June 8th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
anthropology, biology, dinosaurs, evolution, metabolism, paleontology, scicomm, science, sharks
This week we're extremely excited to bring you our conversation with the incredible Prof. Lee Berger. He shares stories from his work, and we talk about his efforts to include new people in his discipline and make his science more accessible to everyone. In the news, we talk about a sharcano, and dynamic dinos.
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A Human Evolution Extravaganza
January 21st, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 14 mins
anatomy, anthropology, bipedalism, denisovan, evolution, human evolution, human origins, laetoli, neanderthal, sapiens, scicomm, science, smithsonian, smithsonian institution, walking
This week we have a human evolution double feature. First, special guest hosts Dr. Briana Pobiner from the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program and Ryan McRae from The George Washington University talk about the biggest discoveries from 2021 in human evolution. Next up, the former guest turned returning champion Dr. Ellie McNutt returns to talk about her recent work at our favorite paleo pathway in Laetoli Tanzania. Also, be sure to check out our website, scinight.com, for tons of links to learn more about alllll the stuff covered in this episode
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Let's Talk About Stress Baby
December 3rd, 2021 | Season 3 | 48 mins 50 secs
ai, anthro, anthropology, anxiety, arc reactor, artificial intelligence, bees, bioanthro, biological anthropology, biology, birth, carion, childbirth, dartmouth, entomology, epigenetics, evolution, fusion energy, genetics, harvard, honey, inequality, racism, robot apocalypse, robotics, scavenger, spark, stress, university of vermont, uvm, vulture, vulture bees
STRESS! Everyone experiences it, and most of us aren't the greatest at dealing with it. The question our guest, Dr. Zane Thayer from Dartmouth College, is trying to learn more about stress. Mainly how a history of stress can lead to long-term health effects. You'll also learn a few tips for dealing with stress in a healthy way. The news segment will definitely build those stress levels as we talk about bees that will make you think twice about where your honey comes from and a new biological robot that will probably not herald the end to civilization as we know it.
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Constructed Languages with David J. Peterson
September 24th, 2021 | Season 3 | 59 mins 21 secs
anthropology, archaeology, art, conlang, constructed language, defiance, denisovan, disney, dune, evolution, game of thrones, geology, hominid, language, linguistics, marvel, neurology, reading, scicomm, science, screens
This week we're talking about all the ways humans express themselves including a stories about a recent find that may be the world's most ancient, and how the things we use to read affect our comprehension. The highlight is a conversation with David J. Peterson, and language creator that has helped build the languages that made the world your favorite shows and movies inhabit feel richer and more vibrant. The list of projects he's worked on is too long to list completely, but some of the highlights include the 2021 remake of Dune, Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon, HBO's Game of Thrones, Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem, SyFy's Defiance, and many many many more.
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The Science of SciFi from Gen Con '21
September 18th, 2021 | Season 3 | 25 mins 10 secs
anthropology, big foot, biology, cryptid, cryptids, cryptozoology, geek, gen con, gencon, gritty, indianapolis, jersey devil, monster, nerd, science, science fiction, scifi, yeti, zoology
Here's a quick bonus episode brought to you by our friends at Indiana Sciences! James talked about cryptids for the 2021 Science of Science Fiction panel from Gen Con. If you want to hear more (and you definitely do) check out https://indianasciences.org/ to hear the rest.
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The Rosetta Stone
May 21st, 2021 | Season 2 | 26 mins 4 secs
anthropology, archaeology, cultural resource management, egypt, egyptology, linguistics, scicomm, science
This week I'm on my own and talking about the Rosetta Stone. Not the overpriced software but the large slab of granite from which the software gets its name. I'll talk about why the stone was made in the first place and it's role in our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture. I'll also talk about why should be returned to Egypt by the British Museum.
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First Steps Featuring: Jeremy DeSilva
April 30th, 2021 | Season 2 | 47 mins 26 secs
anatomy, anthropology, bipedalism, evolution, scicomm, science, walking
What does it mean to be bipedal? How do we know what we know about this process in our own human lineage? How important is the continued reevaluation of fossil remains, and old hypotheses? To help answer these questions, we have the author of the new book First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human, Jeremy DeSilva