SciFest in St. Louis

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Will and David recently attended SciFest: Rock, Fossil, Quake! This was an event held at the St. Louis Science Center in collaboration with the Washington University School of Medicine. The event brought scientists and science enthusiasts face-to-face to talk about geology, earthquakes, and - most exciting for us - fossils (mostly dinosaurs)! In this episode, we recount some of our impressions and favorite parts of the event, and include interviews with six dinosaur paleontologists who attended the event. You'll hear from: Dr. Ashley Morhardt, Washington University Dr. Andy Farke, Raymond Alf Museum Dr. Denver Fowler, Badlands Dinosaur MuseumDr. Casey Holliday, University of MissouriDr. Liz Freedman Fowler, Dickinson State UniversityJosh Matthews, Burpee MuseumHuge thanks to all of the above - and everyone else involved in the event - for a fun day of science outreach! Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will.
0:21.7	Hello, David.
0:28.8	Hello, listeners, and welcome to a special bonus episode content-y thing of the Common Descent podcast.
0:29.9	This episode is about a special event that Will and I got to attend just recently.
0:35.3	Yeah, that we are whisked away to.
0:36.7	We were back at the end of August whisked away to. We were.
0:38.4	Back at the end of August, just as Will and I were getting prepared to go off to Atlanta for
0:44.3	DragonCon, we were contacted by Dr. Ashley Moorhart from St. Louis, who invited us to participate
0:53.3	in SciFest, an event that was being put on as a
0:57.7	collaboration between Washington University's Department of Medicine in St. Louis and the St.
1:05.0	Louis Science Center. This was an event. It was called SciFest Rock Fossil Quake, and it was a bunch of cool activities and
1:14.1	demos and professional scientists gathered at the museum to do some outreach for the public.
1:21.1	Yeah, it was a lot of fun, a cool event. It was, and we were invited to be on hand to do some
1:26.4	interviews, to get some pictures, to do some general social media ing.
1:31.2	Some science reporting.
1:32.6	Kind of, yeah, a little bit of documenting the event.
1:36.2	So here, we're going to explain sort of what happened at the event, what sort of things went on.
1:42.3	We got a bunch of interviews with the paleontologists who were there, so those will feature
1:47.2	throughout this recording.
1:49.0	And generally just a cool opportunity for us to shine a spotlight on a fun outreach event.
1:56.2	And those are always worth highlighting because it's such a great opportunity to get to witness and participate in a place where you have professional scientists interacting with the public.
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