Science Night
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Displaying all 7 Episode of Science Night with the tag “archaeology”.
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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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Defending Truth with David Goldstein
July 20th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 11 mins
ai, alpha fold 2, archaeology, cern, chemistry, communication, disinformation, large hadron collider, misinformation, particle physics, physics, politics, quarks, scicomm, science
This week we're talking about disinformation, misinformation, and effective communication with David Goldstein, chief strategist at We Defend Truth. In the news, we're revisiting our favorite protein-analyzing AI, learning about quarks in their many forms, and talking about the dos and don'ts of finding things in the brave wilderness.
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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 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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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 Ben Valentine
November 12th, 2020 | Season 1 | 53 mins 3 secs
academics, archaeology, scicomm, science, stem
In the final episode of season 1, I sat down with Ben Valentine to talk about his path from archaeology to fundraising, and some of the limitations of academia.
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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.