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If scientists want to educate the public...but is that the right question to begin with?

Category: Science Education

Yesterday, Chris Mooney published an article in Washington Post, If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening. It has already received many comments on the site, as well as on Chris' blog posts here and here...

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Best posts on Media, (Science) Journalism and Blogging at A Blog Around The Clock

Category: Media

Reposted, as I needed to add several of the most recent posts to the list - see under the fold:...

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson: should all people be scientifically literate, and if so, why? (video)

Category: Science Education

Neil DeGrasse Tyson on 2012 - World Science Festival: Video shot at World Science Festival 2010 by Christopher Hite....

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Best posts on Media, (Science) Journalism and Blogging at A Blog Around The Clock

Category: Blogging

As this blog is getting close to having 10,000 posts, and my Archives/Categories are getting unweildy (and pretty useless), I need to get some of the collections of useful posts together, mainly to make it easier for myself to find...

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Why is 'scientists are bad communicators' trope wrong

Category: Framing Science

For a very long time, I have argued that many scientists are excellent communicators. I have seen a number of scientists talk over the years and the experience has been mostly very positive. Even if I limit myself only to...

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Megalodon and other sharks at Darwin Day

Category: Science Education

Last night, braving horrible traffic on the way there, and snow on the way back, I made my way to the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences for the Darwin Day shark lecture co-organized by NESCent and the sneak preview of...

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What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'?

Category: Society

If a publisher offered me a contract to write a book under a title that would be something like "Unscientific America", how would I go about it? I would definitely be SUCH a scientist! But, being such a scientist does...

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Jennifer Ouelette about science in the movies at TAM7 (video)

Category: Fun

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Hollywood and science

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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But what if I really, truly don't like green eggs and ham?

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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