Radio, Television, Blogs, Casts & YouTubes
2023 Podcast hosted by Alexandre Stipanovich for series called “Origins of Sentience.” Episode titled “The discover of rhythm & the very first word,” November 17. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alexandre-stipanovich2/episodes/The-Discovery-of-Rythm–The-Very-First-Word-e2c9jar
2023 Interviewed by Jocylyn Solis-Moreira for an article in Popular Science about whether modern people are more or less violent than those in earlier human societies, October 14. https://www.popsci.com/science/human-society-violence-cycle/
2023 New theory explores how Flores hobbits may have floated to the island. Article by Avi Kumar, Ancient Origins, August 25, 2023.
https://ground.news/article/new-theory-explores-how-flores-hobbits-may-have-floated-to-the-island
2022 The Rhys Show, “Fossils, mothers & babies reveal evolution! With Dean Falk.” Host Rhys Lindmark, August 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGc9j3STz0
2021 Crono.news web magazine video interview with Dean Falk about Homo floresiensis (“Hobbit”) in Italian & English; host Cristiano Luchini. May 26.
https://crono.news/Y:2021/M:05/D:27/h:17/m:20/s:08/homo-floresiensis-small-man-hobbit-nel-pacifico-manahune-alle-hawaii/
2020 Dunk Tank, a podcast in which Duncan Gammie interviews Falk about brain evolution.
https://dunctank.podbean.com/e/dean-falk-the-human-brain/
2019 Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) radio interview with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live (“What do fossils, babies and Einstein tell us about the way our brains have evolved?”). Australia, July 4. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/brain/11279184
2018 Appeared in U.S. television premier of NHK’s documentary “Finding Einstein’s Brain”, December 9.
2017 Podcast, BTRtoday, The Daily Beat with Joe Virgillito. Dean Falk on modern violence; November 3.
2017 Radio interview about Einstein’s brain with Darja Pograjc, host of “Možgani na dlani” (Brain at hand), 1st channel of Slovene national radio, April 13 (in Slovenian).
http://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2017/04/kaj-se-skriva-med-mozganskimi-gubami/
2016 Screen Glue, “Does size matter?” (television documentary, tentative title); filmed interview, November 20 (San Francisco).
2015 Story of Woman Podcast: Episode Six: Granny Glutton, August 18th
2015 World Science Festival, Planet of the Humans: The Leap to the Top; Brian Lehrer, moderator; NYC, May 29 http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/planet-humans-leap-top/
2014 Nature Podcast, “A meter-tall mystery,” Nature Special: Hobbit at 10, Host Ewen Callaway
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-extra-2014-10-23.html
2014 Radio interview about language origins with Mary-Charlotte, host at Radio Café, Santa Fe, New Mexico, aired September 18 http://www.santaferadiocafe.org/shows/RC%209-18-14%201.mp3
2014 YouTube from The Company of Biologists’ 2013 workshop, “Evolution of the Human Neocortex: How Unique Are We?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbVby7PKPA
2014 Nature PastCast, “February 1925: The Man-ape of South Africa”, Chris Stringer and Dean Falk produced by Kerri Smith; February 26: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/index-pastcast-2014-02-26.html
2014 Documentary “I walk therefore I am.” with Marilyn Powell, recorded January 8th for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Public Radio program IDEAS (http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2014/03/12/walking-matters-part-1/).
2013 Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) television interview for episode on “Stroke” in the series The Origins of Diseases filmed on February 8.
2013 OUPblog Post, Examining photographs of Einstein’s brain is not phrenology!
2012 NOVA Pouring Over Einstein’s Brain
2012 CNN Wolf Blitzer & Sanje Gupta talk about Falk, Lepore & Noe’s
research on Einstein’s brain, November 28.
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2012 NOVA ScienceNOW series “How Smart Can We Get?” with host David Pogue.
Watch “How Smart Can We Get?” at www.pbs.org
Watch David Pogue’s Brain Scan
2012 Dig Deeper Videocast with The Leakey Foundation, posted June 1.
Watch on YouTube
2012 Radio interview about brain evolution with Luis Quevedo for NPR Science Friday (translated to Spanish); recorded May 8.
2012 Radio interview about brain evolution with Michael Slang for German Public Radio; recorded May 3.
2012 Radio interview about The Fossil Chronicles with Mary-Charlotte, host at Radio Café, Santa Fe, New Mexico, aired February 9.
2011 Radio interview about The Fossil Chronicles with Dr. Michio Kaku, for the national newstalk progam “Science Fantastic,” aired December 3
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2011 Television interview at the Genoa Science Festival; Genoa, Italy. October 28.
Watch on www.festivalscienzalive.it (switches to English at about 55 seconds)
2011 Radio interview about The Fossil Chronicles with Sean Moncrieff for Newstalk Radio Ireland. live, September 15.
2011 Radio interview with Claudia Friedrich for German Public Radio (WDR), introducing German edition of Finding Our Tongues, recorded April 28, 2011.
2010 Radio interview with Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, “Written in Code,” June 14, 2010.
Click Play button below to listen on radio.seti.org
2010 RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) interview for Voyager television program about Einstein & Genius, filmed February 26.
2009 Radio interview about Finding Our Tongues with Seth Shostak, SETI Institute (NPR’s Public Radio Satellite System), June 15.
2011 Radio interview with Claudia Friedrich for German Public Radio (WDR), introducing German edition of Finding Our Tongues, recorded April 28.
2009 Wisconsin Public Radio, “Conversations with Joy Cardin,” 1-hour interview about the origins of language with listener call-ins, May 18.
2009 “Daily Planet,” Discovery ChannelCanada; television interview with Jay Ingram about Einstein’s brain; May 5.
2009 W Radio, Bogatá, live interview about Albert Einstein’s Brain; April 27.
2009 “Think,” radio program, one hour live interview about Finding Our Tongues with Krys Boyd, KERA-FM, Dallas; April 23.
2009 “The Journey Home” radio show; live interview about Finding Our Tongues with Diego Mulligan; KSFR-FM 101.1, Santa Fe Public Radio; April 9.
2008 NOVA, TV film Alien from Earth, aired inUnited States, November 11.
Dean Falk in Indonesia
2008 ABC film The Hobbit Enigma, aired inAustralia, November 3.
2008 NHK TV, Japan; film The Origins of Diseases, Dyslexia; October 12.
2008 National Geographic Society Television (Parthenon Entertainment Ltd), Mystery Skulls of Palau, March 17.
2005 National Geographic Society television, Tiny Humans – The Hobbits of Flores, March 13.
1999 Interview with Dr. Fred Goodwin, public radio, “Stones, Bones, and Brains,” November 3.
1997 Discovery television, Canada, special Get The Message, January 1.
1996 Discovery television, documentary on sign language.
1995 Spiegel television, documentary on human evolution.
1995 Australian Broadcasting Company television film on language origins, for Quantum.
1994 British Broadcasting Horizon film series, film Some Liked It Hot.
2011 Felice Cimatti interviews Dean Falk about Finding Our Tongues, il manifesto, April 11 (in Italian).
2009 Falk’s research on Einstein’s brain.
2008 Roberta Kwok interviews Dean Falk, SciCom Interviews.
Translations
2012 Russian translation of http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/falk.html by Ted Mosby. Translation can be found here: http://trumplin.com/anthropology.html
2007 Falk, D. Evolution of the primate brain. In W. Henke & I.Tattersall (Eds), Handbook of Palaeoanthropology Vol. 2: Primate Evolution and Human Origins, Springer-Verlag, 1133-1162. Translated into Belorussian, April, 2011 and into German.
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