# Lab videos ## expand\_more [### EVENT: Brian @ Berklee Global Jazz Institute ](/news/event/brian-berklee-global-jazz-institute) November 04, 2024 Join Brian Friday, as he presents at Berklee Global Jazz Institutes's 9th Annual Symposium of Interconnected Arts and Music Performance! On Friday, November 8th, Brian will present "Why We Animals Sing" at 10am at: Berklee College of Music David Friend... ![Orange image w/white text of date and location of 9th Annual Interconnected Arts & Music Performance](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024_news_bgji_symposium_poster.png?h=7b7159fd&itok=6Mha5Cc5) [### EVENT & Video: Why We Animals Sing ](/news/event/ICTP-SAIFR) September 19, 2023 Wednesday, September 23, at 2pm: "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... ![Thumbnail of poster for Why We Animals sing (white background, blue top and bottom, Brian Farrell in middle with text)](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/230927_coloquio-farrell-250.png?h=068dd321&itok=aK0HB34e) [### EVENT: Everything we touch, touches us back: Culture, Biology, and Health ](/news/event-everything-we-touch-touches-us-back-culture-biology-and-health) May 21, 2020 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... ![Screenshot of video, showing title screen (Everything we touch...)](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/2105_news_drclas_evthgtch.png?itok=ha2zc19k) [### Congreso Futuro 2018 ](/news/congreso-futuro-2018) January 20, 2018 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 challenges the world faces and how to improve the future. Live streamed on Jan... ![Brian D. Farrell presenting at Congreso Futuro 2018](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/180120_congreso_futuro_screen01.jpg?itok=J18lw8p6) [### EVENT: The David Rockefeller Beetle Collection ](/news/event-david-rockefeller-beetle-collection) November 06, 2017 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... description [### EVENT: Biology of Consciousness ](/news/biology-consciousness) March 06, 2017 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: ... ![artistic rendering of consciousness](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/1703_news_carrasco_farrell_event.jpg?itok=Yd-FXLJV) [### Islands: Dispersion and Speciation ](/news/islands-dispersion-and-speciation) April 21, 2009 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... ![Screenshot of Islands: Dispersion & Speciation video title screen](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/2015_hmnh_exhibit_vid_1.png?itok=XVZBW2DQ) [### Assembling the Tree of Life ](/news/assembling-tree-life) April 01, 2009 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... ![Screenshot of title screen of "Assembling the tree of life" video](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/2014_hmnh_atol_screenshot.png?itok=h29jt5Ut) [### Bioblitz on Lovells Island ](/news/bioblitz-lovells-island-eo-wilson) June 06, 2005 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; please view directly on YouTube for closed captions. ![Screenshot of opening screen to Lovells Island Bioblitz video](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/2005_lovells_video_screenshot.png?itok=RbyE32z8) [### TED 2005: Inspired by Nature ](/news/ted-2005-inspired-nature) February 28, 2005 Brian spoke at TED 2005, presenting "Building a Facebook of biodiversity for the island of Hispaniola." View the presentation below: ![TED logo for illustrative purposes: red, capital T E D](/sites/g/files/omnuum6366/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/farrell/files/2005_news_ted_three_letter_logo.png?itok=rWPuqiqI)