Science Night
A place for scientists to tell their story.
Displaying Episode 11 - 16 of 16 in total of Science Night with the tag “anthropology”.
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Who Owns the Past? Featuring: Gypsy Price
April 2nd, 2021 | Season 2 | 1 hr 7 mins
anthropology, archaeology, cultural resource management, elgin marbles, greece, parthenon, parthenon marbles, scicomm, science
Who owns the past? Why should we care about this question? How annoyed can James make a guest by comparing them to Indiana Jones or Lara Croft? In this episode, I talked with Gypsy Price, a bioarchaeologist, about a lot of things. Topics range from her work in Greece, cultural resource management, what to do with a degree in archaeology, and why Britain should return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
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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!
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Angiosperm Coevolution Hypothesis
July 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 24 mins 28 secs
anthropology, biology, evolution, flowers, plants, primates, scicomm, science
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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.
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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.
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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