Melaninology (SKIN/HAIR PIGMENT) with Dr. Tina Lasisi
Image description: Dr. Tina Lasisi wears a white turtleneck and has short curly dark hair and leans agains a wall smiling lightly at camera.
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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Links to things we discussed:
The Evolution of Human Skin and Skin Color
Human Skin Pigmentation as an Adaptation to UV Radiation
Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality
Quantifying variation in human scalp hair fiber shape and pigmentation
More Than Just Dry Skin: The Cultural Significance of Ashiness
The Hygiene Culture Wars That Started on Social Media
Role of Neuromelanin in Parkinson's Disease and Brain Aging
Removing the Racial Coefficient From Calculations of eGFR
The Evolution of Human Skin and Skin Color
Assessing the photoprotective effects of red ochre on human skin by in vitro laboratory experiments
The Black Girl’s Guide To Mineral Sunscreen
Quantitative mapping of human hair greying and reversal in relation to life stress
Homo neanderthalensis via Smithsonian
Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation
Himba woman covered with a traditional ochre pigment
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Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media
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