Christiaan Barnard transplanted a heart into a woman called Denise Darvall into a man called Phil Washkansky.
to Barnard I started um a dog cognition lab we do simple behavioral experiments
and barnacles-- he was just really into it-- to make sure what he was observing, his hypothesis, was correct.
And I worked at Barnard College, over 100 years old.
And I worked at Barnard College, over 100 years old.
but dad working on barnacles.
I went to Barnard.
But lately Barnaby's been interested in medical devices and the security around them.
It’s like barnacles that accumulate on a boat.
by this parasitic barnacle.
Or I talk about habit barnacles.
He's also founded the Barnard Medical Center, where he puts this research to work in treating patients.
Every kid's dad must work on barnacles was the idea.
She has held positions at Barnard College and MIT.
So after I became assistant professor at Barnard College, I realized that it wasn't the right pace for me, that I wanted to have more to do with the real world.
study then I went to Barnala and performed in front of 100 people. I mean,
This is a fellow named Barnaby Jack.
And it was a comic strip called Barnabus The Wonder Dog and it was really just about him and my family and our adventures, sort of slightly fictionalized. And I had the most
Suspend any preconceived notions you have about barnacles because this of barnacle is very iconoclastic; it doesn't have a shell; it doesn't attach to the sides of peers or
Dandelions and sea jellies, barnacles, they're all doing it like crazy out there.
But after getting my butt kicked multiple times outside of Barnaby's pub in Walla Walla, I decided I needed to do something different to fit in, right?
One of my favorite examples is a parasitic barnacle.
And what's interesting is when you look at research from Pew and Barna and other sources, millennials and baby boomers, which is what I am--
So time to introduce Dr. Neal Barnard.
Debora Spar, who was the president of Barnard, calculated that over the course of her career a professional woman will spend a total of five full years
I'm Janna Levin and I'm a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, and my most recent book is "Black Hole Survival Guide."
And I have the honor of hosting Dr. Neal Barnard today.
But I wanted to begin with some slides that I put together for a course in memoir that I taught at Barnard College
Yours sincerely. Devastating. According to the children's charity Barnardo,
what's your first response excitement butterflies or the fear because as someone who cleaved like a barnacle to
too patience is the reward, by performing and performing in Barnala,
Unless we can shift all of that, scrape those barnacles off the boat, then you-- and we often use Google in this context-- will disrupt us even more.
But of course, they couldn't follow the protest in a little place like Barnaul, Siberia.
They're, you know, the classic gooseneck barnacles, but it was nice to be able to look at them in a slightly different way and to visually isolate them in the photograph.
And yet, it was when she kind of came out at Barnard in the commencement speech of 2011 and told her story that people really
There's a little shrimp, and it spins a thread, actually, which is midway in strength and elasticity between spider silk and the kind of cement that barnacles use to fix themselves
And yeah, they had a list of choices, including the head of Barnardo's, the children's charity, heads of universities.
Today is World Health Day, and we have the perfect guest for that occasion-- Dr. Neal Barnard.
So with that great list of achievements, I want to welcome to Google, to Talks at Google, Dr. Neal Barnard.
And four weeks later, she called me again and said, Dr. Barnard, this is astounding.
and of variations of her name in census records, and newspapers, and Barnard's accounts, and poor houses in New Jersey and New
So one anecdote, for example, that's pretty well-substantiated comes from one of the kids who, for about an eight year period, Darwin famously immersed himself in the study of barnacles
And the story goes that visiting some friends they kind of looked around and were wondering, well, where does your dad do his barnacles?
evolution, botany, behavior. This is just a sampler of topics, orchids, barnacles, inheritance, the construction of B-cells,
And in scriptural terms I've called it-- it's three strands, a Paul, a Barnabas, a Timothy.
I can, but but um like traditionally we're we're dealing with this American circus stereotype of Barnaman Bailey and
So it wasn't really -- and all during college, too, I went to Barnard college at Columbia University, and at that time, too, I was modeling.
you this, they're not so worried about the fall, it's when you try to, try to rescue yourself and grab onto one of the pilings, because of all the barnacles on the pilings,
fun sort of literary detective story about um discovering a group of stories that they had always believed was this A.M. Barnard and no one could figure out who A.M. Barnard
It turned out what I really ended up doing that, that when I look back today is the most me, was a comic strip about my dog. My dog's name was Barnabas, after the character in