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Lunch Break Science
Lunch Break Science is The Leakey Foundation’s live-streamed web series. This series features interviews and short talks with Leakey Foundation grantees about the latest in human evolution research.
Take a break from your day and feed your brain with The Leakey Foundation. New episodes stream live the first and third Thursday of every month on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and here on this page!
Watch on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube if you’d like to participate in the Q&A session.
Live This Week
Lunch Break Science #37 | Alexandra Kralick
Thursday, November 18, 2021
11 am Pacific
Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Alexandra Kralick and learn about orangutan secondary sexual characteristic development.
Central, and 2 pm Eastern on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or here on Leakey Foundation Live to participate in the live Q&A session.
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Past Videos
Miss an episode of Lunch Break Science? Check out this playlist featuring all of our past episodes!
Lunch Break Science has featured the following Leakey Foundation grantees: Zarin Machanda, Lauren Schroeder, Chalachew Seyoum, Jenny Tung, Rachna Reddy, Hailay Reda, Daniel Lieberman, Anne Stone, Caroline Schuppli, Ainash Childebayeva, Rachel Bynoe, Meg Crofoot, Grace Davis, Catherine Markham, Christopher Gilbert, Jacinta Beehner, Isaiah Nengo, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, Amy Lu, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Jeremy DeSilva, Dagmawit Getahun, Naomi Cleghorn, Ashley Hammond, Kate McGrath, Nicole Thompson González, Andrea Baden, Stacey Tecot, Deming Yang, Enquye Negash, Christpher Schimitt, Kevin Hatala, Melissa Emery-Thompson, and Brenna Henn and Austin Reynolds, Alba Gacia de la Chica, Shanti Pappu, and Andrew Bernard.
Science Through Visual Stories | Sara ElShafie Workshop
Join Sara ElShafie, a global change biologist and science storytelling consultant, to learn how to create aesthetically pleasing and informative visuals for science storytelling. “Science Through Visual Stories” is part of our career development program for Leakey Foundation grantees and the wider science community.
This online workshop will help you create better presentations, figures, photographs, footage, and any other visual media you need for your science communication endeavors. This event was recorded live on July 22, 2020.
Unravelling the Genetic Past and Present of Island Southeast Asia | Irene Gallego Romero
Leakey Foundation grantee Irene Gallego Romero discusses the presence of Denisovan DNA in present-day Papuans. She also examines the positioning of Indonesia in the global human genetics landscape.
“Unravelling the Genetic Past and Present of Island Southeast Asia” was recorded live on October 20, 2020.
Leakey Foundation grantee Daniel Lieberman discusses his latest book, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding.
This lecture is presented by The Leakey Foundation, the Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Cabot Science Library.
This lecture was recorded on January 5, 2021.
The Leakey Foundation’s Young Professionals Group hosts barber shop talk with two evolutionary biologists and hair enthusiasts, Tina Lasisi and Liz Tapanes. Learn more about hair from a practical perspective, from a social perspective, and from the many overlapping disciplines that have shaped how we think about hair.
This event was recorded live on January 12, 2021.
The Leakey Foundation celebrates Darwin’s birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Descent of Man. This event brings together seven world-class scholars and science communicators to explore what Darwin got right and what he got wrong about the origin, history, and biological variation of humans.
This event was recorded live on February 13, 2021.
This Speaker Series on Human Origins lecture was recorded live on June 22, 2021.
