Uh-oh — I told a student just last week that I thought she’d make an excellent science journalist. Maybe it wasn’t such good advice. 95 weekly science sections in newspapers in 1989 34 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2005 19 weekly science sections in newspapers in 2012
Category Archive: Communicating science
Nov 26 2012
Café Scientifique in Morris on Tuesday evening
We’re bringing it back! If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by tomorrow night to learn some cool student-centered physics research. Summary: Students from the Experimental Physics class will present “Results from Experimental Physics” on Tuesday, November 27, at 6 p.m. at the Common Cup Coffeehouse. This is the first Café Scientifique of the academic year. …
Nov 24 2012
Just go for it!
Oh, look: the European Science Foundation is sponsoring a contest to reward the best video promoting science. I haven’t watched them all! You’ll have to tell me which one is best.
Nov 24 2012
I usually don’t like pie charts, but…
…this one has clarity in a style that usually obscures quantitative relationships.
Nov 20 2012
A scientist adrift among the parlous Scots
Hey, you Scots: Jerry Coyne is banging about in your country this week, speaking at the University of Edinburgh Humanist Society on Friday and Glasgow Skeptics next Monday. I hope some of you are planning to give him a haggis and a bottle of Irn Bru at some point (if you need an excuse to …
Oct 29 2012
Fair warning to convention attendees
So I just got back from CSICon, which was great fun. I gave a talk on the role of chance in evolution (it’s more important than many think), and I think people recorded it. I also have a rough summary that I’ll polish up and post to Pharyngula. But… You’ll have to wait a bit. …
Oct 24 2012
Thanks, Discovery Institute!
Evolution News & Views, the DI’s Pravda, did something good for a change: they alerted me to the availability of BBC 2′s show, Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell. Here it is! Secret Universe – The Hidden Life Of the Cell by David_Tennnant_Spain Of course, you can see why the DI would like …
Oct 21 2012
SciAm video whiffs it on this extinction event
I usually like Scientific American’s short science explainer videos, but this one — Instant Egghead – Are We Facing the Sixth Mass Extinction?” — bothers me for a few reasons. Fred Guterl starts off by saying that we don’t know yet whether our current extinction event qualifies as a “mass extinction.” It’s a bit of …
Oct 19 2012
Minnesota mooks don’t like MOOCs
Every once in a while, some news comes down from on high that reveals that the people we’re trusting to lead don’t have a clue about what they’re doing. Now Minnesota’s Office of Higher Education has banned online courses, specifically the excellent suite of free online courses from Coursera. We do have a law on …
Oct 10 2012
The things you learn at meetings
I learned yesterday that my graduate university, the University of Oregon, has a Science Literacy Program led by an old friend, Judith Eisen. It looks like an excellent idea. The University of Oregon Science Literacy Program (UO SLP) offers General Education courses for non-science majors designed to improve scientific awareness and general science literacy of …
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