Science Night
A place for scientists to tell their story.
Displaying Episode 71 - 80 of 87 in total of Science Night with the tag “science”.
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Zombification Featuring: Athena Aktipis
April 16th, 2021 | Season 2 | 54 mins 8 secs
athena aktipis, covid19, psychology, scicomm, science, scifi, zombie apocalypse, zombies, zombification
Is the zombie apocalypse really possible? Worse yet, has it already started? Dr. Athena Aktipis stopped by to answer these questions and more.
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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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The Curious Case of the Painted Turtle with Beth Reinke
March 19th, 2021 | Season 2 | 43 mins 26 secs
biology, color, ecology, evolution, pigmentation, scicomm, science, turtles
Why are painted turtles painted? What role does pigmentation play in biology? How little does our host know about this topic? Beth Reinke, an evolutionary ecologist at Northeastern Illinois Univ., stopped by to answer these questions and more on the newest episode of the podcast.
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The Scientific Association with Shawn Boynes
March 4th, 2021 | Season 2 | 45 mins 1 sec
anatomy, scicomm, science
Shawn Boynes, the Executive Director of the American Association for Anatomy, and I talk about the importance of science communication and the role of the professional association in science.
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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 2020 Science Night Halloween Spectacular
October 29th, 2020 | Season 1 | 53 mins 13 secs
body snatching, buried alive, death, edgar allan poe, grave robbing, halloween, horror, scicomm, science, science fiction, scifi, victorian
For the spookiest of seasons, we put together a special episode talking about death, body snatching, and being buried alive. Listen to the end for a dramatic reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "Premature Burial"
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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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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.
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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
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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...