"Music has long filled a uniquely important role in bridging human culture and biology, stretching back over millennia, and of course today provides respite and remedy in an increasingly stressful world. We do not sing alone...."
Join Brian as he presents Why We Animals Sing, at the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research in São Paulo, Brasil. This event is being live streamed via YouTube.
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On May 21, Brian presented "Everything we touch, touches us back: Culture, Biology, and Health."
We are shaped by an immensely long evolutionary history living in nature as a social species, a million years of days spent with family and clan in a struggle against the weather, predators, hunger and enemies. Even our values of good and evil, including the Golden Rule, may have been shaped by how we treat others and our environment.
Medical science now shows that our attitudes and interactions touch us in ways that were once thought...
Brian presented as part of the panel "Las Inteligencias" at Chile's Congreso Futuro 2018. This annual event brings together great thinkers from across the globe to discuss the challengesthe world faces and how to improve the future. Live streamed on Jan 20, the video is now available on YouTube:
At the heart of every great collection, be it art, books, or specimens, lies the soul of a passionate collector. David Rockefeller had a passion for beetles and collected more than 150,000 specimens, beginning as a seven-year-old naturalist and continuing...
Brian Farrell's lecture, Biology of Consciousness, live broadcasted world-wide, drew an audience that packed the Geological Lecture Hall at the Museum of Natural History. If you missed it, you can view the video here:
As part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History's exhibit, "Islands: Evolving in Isolation," Brian discussed dispersion and speciation in the Caribbean. View the video below!
While the in-person exhibit has ended, the HMNH now has a virtual version of "Islands: Evolving in Isolation" online, including resources for teachers. Visit the virtual exhibit here.
Labs across the MCZ contributed to the HMNH's new permanent exhibit, Evolution. Below, view the exhibit video highlighting the research at the MCZ being used to assemble an evolutionary tree of life. Brian Farrell, Whit Farnum, Jessica Rykken, and Amie Jones of the Farrell Lab are all included in this video. For more, visit the HMNH.
Brian and E.O. Wilson led students from Odyssey High School and Boston Environmental Ambassadors to National Parks (BEAN) on a bioblitz on Lovells Island. A short video of this trip can be found below.