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Melaninology (SKIN/HAIR PIGMENT) with Tina Lasisi

Feb 16, 2023

01:31:37

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Tina Lasisi

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The Race Based Coefficient in Kidney Disease Epidemiology

05:18

How Did You Get to the Point Where You Wanted to Study Human Biological Variation?

02:08

How Does UV Radiation Affect Your Skin?

02:41

Introduction

3min

Dr. Tina Lascic - The First Black Student to Graduate With a PhD in Anthropology

2min

How Did You Get to the Point Where You Wanted to Study Human Biological Variation?

2min

Why Is My Hair Curly?

2min

How Does UV Radiation Affect Your Skin?

3min

Evolution by Natural Selection

5min

UVA, UVB - What's the Difference?

2min

Vitamin D and COVID Infections

2min

Is There a Difference Between You and Feel Melanin?

4min

10.

What Happens With Freckles?

3min

11.

Is Umelanin a Cause of Skin Cancer?

3min

12.

Do You Get Hotter in High Solar Radiation Environments?

3min

13.

What Are the Melanosomes?

5min

14.

Using the Same Genome in Every Cell in Your Body

2min

15.

Are You Getting Hair Samples From Salons?

2min

16.

Is Your Hair a Superlative?

2min

17.

Is There a Shade of Red Hair That's Close to Real Redheads?

2min

18.

Orangutan Eyes - Are They a Fun Color?

2min

19.

I Have to Wash My Legs, I Don't Understand.

3min

20.

The Cultural Significance of Ashiness

4min

21.

The Race Based Coefficient in Kidney Disease Epidemiology

5min

22.

Why Do Humans Have Hair With Naked Body?

5min

23.

Can You Measure Untanned Butts?

2min

24.

Find Top Talent Fast With Indeed

6min

25.

Why Does the Sun Make Your Skin Darker, but Your Hair Lighter?

3min

26.

Are You Going Blotchy When You Tan?

3min

27.

Is My Melanin Ghosted Me?

4min

28.

Is Neanderthals Having Blue Eyes and Blonde Hair?

2min

29.

Can Gray Hair Ever Regain Its Color or Are We Just Screwed Once It's Out?

2min

30.

Is More Melanin a Cause of Aging?

3min

31.

Is There a Gene That Makes You Furry?

3min

32.

Skin Bleaching Is a Big Issue in the US

2min

33.

What's the Hardest Part About Your Job?

2min

34.

What's Your Favorite Part About Your Career, Your Discipline?

5min

Skin color! Hair texture! Biological anthropology! The incredibly informed and infectiously funny Dr. Tina Lasisi joins to chat sunscreen, ashiness, redheads, light skin, dark skin, in-between skin, beards, UVAs, UVBs, shower habits, cultural colloquialisms, vitiligo, melasma, medical math, ocher, freckles and more. Dr. Lasisi is about to become your new favorite science communication and internet friend. Also: sunscreen, people.

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