Jennifer Ouelette about science in the movies at TAM7 (video)
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Category: Fun
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Category: Science Education
Robert Scoble interviews science blogger and author Jennifer Ouellette about the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a "recent initiative by the National Academy of Sciences, was set up to build a new kind of social network of scientists and movie directors."...
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Category: Framing Science
Even after Sam-I-Am persuades me to try them? On the other hand, can we learn something from this book about selling science? Evolution? Are our anti-Creationist tactics, for instance, better or worse than Sam's? Or is his strategy inappropriate for...
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Category: Fun
Viral video marketing of science instruments seems to be flurishing: Monty Python and the Holy Instrument:...
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Category: Science Education
The September 2007 issue of JCOM - Journal of Science Communication - (issue 3, volume 7) is online.: Next issue will be online on the 18th December 2008. There are several articles in this issue that I find interesting and...
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Category: Framing Science
There was a fantastic example of an anti-vaccination caller on this show earlier today - Parents Protest Increase In Required Vaccinations. Please listen to the podcast, especially to the last caller. Prodded over and over again, she displayed more and...
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Category: History of Science
Not on US television (Channel 4 in the UK only): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 [Via]...
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Category: Environment
Interesting idea: "Save It" Global Warming message by 10 yr old from 1skycampaign on Vimeo. [Via - read the post as well]...
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Category: Media
Titles of blog posts have to be short, but I could expand it to something like this: "Depending on the medium and the context, many scientists can be and often are excellent communicators" That is what I understood to be...
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Category: Open Science
Scientific Collectivism 1: (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved Dissent): I want to bring up a discussion about what I perceive is a dangerous trend in neuroscience (this may be applicable to other areas of science as well), and...
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