More Fun Than Fun: Learning How Fruit Flies Disperse – From a Tabletop 17/03/2021
L-R: Sudipta Tung, Sutirth Dey and Abhishek Mishra, the trio that created nomadic fruit flies in their lab in IISER Pune. Photo: Sutirth Dey.
Spectacular advances in genetic technology in the past couple of decades have revolutionised our understanding of how different parts of the globe came to be occupied by
Homo sapiens. We now have evidence that
Homo sapiens evolved in Africa between 300,000 and 150,000 years ago; successfully dispersed out of Africa between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago; reached Central Asia (including India), Europe and Australia some 65,000 years ago; and reached the Americas about 16,000 years ago.
In the months leading up to
Shoptalk Meetup for Women (May 11-13), the Shoptalk team is producing an Original Content series on
(available 4/15).
This week, we sat down (well, Zoomed with) Monica Turner of P&G. Monica is a 30+ year veteran at P&G who started as an intern and has risen to her current role, leading Sales for North America.
She shared how she worked her way into the C-Suite, her biggest career win and why all women of color should have a sponsor.
Shoptalk: Thinking back to Monica Turner in 1987, has your career unfolded according to plan?
Monica Turner: I started at Procter & Gamble as an intern. I understood P&G was focused on providing quality goods to consumers, and having great partnerships with customers. But what I liked most was that it seemed like a values-based company.
14:34 How did life begin? Are we alone in the universe? How will it all end? In his new book, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down challenging philosophical conundrums with wit, wisdom, and cutting-edge science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of more than a dozen books many of them international bestsellers and numerous articles, both scholarly and for the general public.
Rolling Stone Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why End of Earth Is Tired, End of Universe Is Wired on ‘Colbert’
Scientist describes in excruciating detail how the universe’s rapid expansion will ultimately cause a “Big Rip” that will tear us all apart
By
The Late Show Tuesday, March 2nd.
The topics are something Tyson explores in his new book,
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. The scientist quickly ran through the well-known process by which the Earth will cease to exist sun expands, oceans boil, atmosphere evaporates into space, Earth becomes charred ember that descends into center of the sun, yadda yadda yadda to get to the stuff that really keeps him up at night: “The Big Rip,” which will end the universe as we know it.