{"id":5253,"date":"2012-04-23T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:22:38","slug":"your-inner-neandertal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/your-inner-neandertal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your Inner Neandertal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Keynote talk by multimedia artist Lynn Fellman for Minneapolis DNA Days<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you know why some people are 1 to 4% Neandertal? Lynn Fellman explains how your Uncle Ned and maybe you have an &#8220;Inner Neander&#8221; during her art and science talk on April 28th. The presentation is one of many talks at Twin City libraries to celebrate National DNA Days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/Fellman_Talk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fellman_Talk.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/assets_c\/2012\/04\/Fellman_Talk-thumb-500x179-73918.jpg?resize=500%2C179\" width=\"500\" height=\"179\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your Inner Neandertal&#8221; is a 30 minute presentation showing how art can uniquely express science concepts and why some of us may find a little &#8220;Neander&#8221; in our genes. With examples from &#8220;At the Crossroads&#8221; video and DNA Portrait traveling show, Fellman explains how some genes may be a surprising and generous gift from our ancient and now extinct cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, April 28th at 11 am<br \/>\nMinneapolis Downtown Hennepin Library<br \/>\nThis keynote talk for Minneapolis DNA Days is free and open to the public. Please register (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hclib.org\/pub\/events\/Register.cfm?SessionNo=18290&#038;utm_source=Lynn's+Test+List&#038;utm_campaign=0901617e56-AAAS_Neandertals9_19_2011&#038;utm_medium=email\">go here<\/a>).<br \/>\nFor more information, parking and directions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hclib.org\/pub\/events\/AllEventsAction.cfm?keyword=DNA&#038;utm_source=Lynn's+Test+List&#038;utm_campaign=0901617e56-AAAS_Neandertals9_19_2011&#038;utm_medium=email\">go here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>More DNA Days events at area libraries will cover topics like genetic testing and screening, capturing family health history and tools for collecting the information.<\/p>\n<p><em>Illuminating Human Gene Stories through art, design and narrative<br \/>\nLynn Fellman multimedia artist <a href=\"http:\/\/fellmanstudio.com\/\">FellmanStudio.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote talk by multimedia artist Lynn Fellman for Minneapolis DNA Days Do you know why some people are 1 to 4% Neandertal? Lynn Fellman explains how your Uncle Ned and maybe you have an &#8220;Inner Neander&#8221; during her art and science talk on April 28th. The presentation is one of many talks at Twin City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/your-inner-neandertal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Your Inner Neandertal&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}