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22 March – Virtual Skeptics in the Pub
13 April – SkepTalk
26 April – Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

WHAT: Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

This is a casual night of socializing with fellow skeptics. If needed, we will have a number of breakout rooms for quieter conversations.

Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome, but please be respectful of others.

WHEN: Wednesday 22 March 7-9pm PST (0300-0500 UTC Thurs)

HOW: Zoom. Join HERE. Passcode: 1023

SkepTalk – Online

Briana Pobiner, Ph.D.

WHAT: Did paleo people actually eat Paleo?
The modern “paleo” diet movement makes many assumptions about what our ancient human ancestors ate. But are these assumptions based on actual evidence? Presenting a variety of lines of evidence for prehistoric human diets including early human, animal, and plant fossils, ancient stone tools, DNA, and living human and chimpanzee diets, Dr. Briana Pobiner will discuss significant changes in the evolution of human diets – and highlight what makes human meat-eating unique.

WHO: Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist and educator in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She conducts original scientific research on the evolution of Stone Age human diets, studying modern and fossil animal bones. She also leads the public engagement efforts of the Human Origins Program. In this capacity, she develops and facilitates public programs for various audiences, updates website content, responds to public and media inquiries, manages social media accounts, and leads training for exhibition volunteers. She joined NMNH in 2005 as a research fellow, and in 2008 she became a member of the core team for the Hall of Human Origins which opened in 2010. She is also an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes. Briana received a BA (1997) in Evolutionary Studies from Bryn Mawr College and an MA (2002) and PhD (2007) in Anthropology from Rutgers University.

WHEN: Thursday 13 April 6:30PM Pacific (0230 UTC)

WHERE: Online. Click HERE to join.

Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

WHAT: Virtual Skeptics in the Pub

This is a casual night of socializing with fellow skeptics. If needed, we will have a number of breakout rooms for quieter conversations.

Please join us! This is a free event brought to you by Bay Area Skeptics. All are welcome, but please be respectful of others.

WHEN: Wednesday 26 April 7-9pm PST (0300-0500 UTC Thurs)

HOW: Zoom. Join HERE. Passcode: 1023