Monday, March 23, 2009

Dr. Olivia Judson Lecture 3/23



Born in the UK, Olivia Judson moved to the US at the age of 10.  Judson is now an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London.  She graduated from Stanford University, got her doctorate from Oxford, and worked as a journalist before beginning research on a fellowship at Imperial College London.  It was interesting to find out that she had participated in the television show "Animal Pharm," which she described as a "science documentary musical."- strange?  She mainly spoke about her book, Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. "Written in the style of a sex-advice column to animals, the book details the variety of sexual practices in the natural world and provides the reader with an overview of the evolutionary biology of sex." All of this was pretty intense, and the lecture style itself was very stiff and matter of fact. Interesting to say the least, but I felt really out of my element.

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