Clearer Thinking Podcast: A Conversation With Spencer Greenberg

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Spencer Greenberg: We have all of these gaps in our understanding or in other cases, my fiance actually is a biologist and he is on this really important paper where they helped to classify a new species of primate. When the PR on that discovery went out, scientists discovered new orangutan. So it wasn't like white scientists go to Indonesia to discoverOrangutan. It was like Western science finally caught up with indigenous knowledge. That's funny. Yeah. Right. Having that tested and validated and having the scientific method applied to its understanding can only benefit society.

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Dr. Crystal Dilworth is a neuroscientist, dancer/choreographer, and television host on a mission to help others better understand themselves and their world. Saturday Mornings you can find her on CBS as Mission Unstoppable's "Dr. Brain" or weekly on Voice of America as the host of VOA-Tek. Behind the camera, the Caltech-trained neuroscientist coaches both public and private organizations in how to foster meaningful communication and understanding within internal teams and externally to the public, and she loves leveraging her unconventional background in the performing arts to creatively produce large-scale public events championing science and technology. Dr. Dilworth is an AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador for STEM and lives in Jakarta, Indonesia with her husband and two cats. Find her on Instagram at @PolycrystalhD.

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