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Framing Science:

Best Of: Framing V: The Point!

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What really matters is that we as a global society continue to care. I think that's mainly what 'Framing Science' is about.

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Best Of: Framing IV: The Lorax Phenomenon

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Imagine you're a legislative staffer on Capitol Hill..

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Best Of: Framing III: Happy Feet

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Much emphasis in traditional conservation is paced on 'charismatic megafauna,' meaning the species that we all know and love. The heroes of the big screen. Save the Oceans for Flipper and Free Willy.

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Best Of: Framing II: Weapons in the Form of Words

Category: Framing Science

There's not a one size fits all approach to getting a message across that resonates with the public and policymakers.

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Best Of: Re-Framing Science While Chris Mooney's Away..

Category: Framing Science

Dare I broach the topic sans Chris?

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The Science Communication Crisis

Category: Framing Science

Today I am down at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, speaking to a class taught by Jeremy Jackson, along with journalists Ken Weiss from the Los Angeles Times, Rex Dalton from Nature, and Mark Dowie from Mother Jones and many...

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Paradigm Sheep

Category: Framing Science

That's the title of my latest Science Progress column....even though the column itself is not entirely about sheep. Rather, it's a recounting of the Mooney-Nisbet science communication "boot camp" at Caltech....but, well, sheep came up, and believe it or...

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Science Communication Lecture and Boot Camp at CalTech

Category: Framing Science

Over the past year, I've done well over two dozen talks, with Matthew Nisbet, about science communication. And now we're taking it to the next level. Next week at CalTech, we're unveiling a two-part affair: Our lecture (entitled "Speaking Science...

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The Science of Communication: What We Know We Didn't Know But Convinced Ourselves Otherwise

Category: Framing Science

At the risk of getting more comments about framing...In January I spoke at the 2008 American Meteorological Society meeting's 7th Communication Workshop, and the audio and powerpoints are now online. Many or most of the panelists--and especially myself and Arthur...

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Part IV: Defending "Framing Science" Premises V-VI

Category: Framing Science

Well, discussion seems to have mostly run its course on "framing science" premises II and III. I have defended them, at least to my own satisfaction. There may be some folks who still reject them, but at this point, at...

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