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laelaps | October 19, 2007While the a number of my classmates spent their evening at the football stadium I hopped the train to New York to attend the "How various media outlets are used to popularize, communicate, and promote science" panel discussion, part of a series in the Science Communication Consortium. Even though the discussion didn't necessarily answer the questions posed at the beginning of the seminar (namely where is science communication going, although Christopher Mims had a bit to say about this, as we'll see), there were some interesting points made all around.
Kitta MacPherson of the Newark Star…
laelaps | October 10, 2007On October 18th (next Thursday) the NYAS Science Allicance will be presenting a panel discussion entitled "How Various Media Outlets are Used to Popularize, Communicate & Promote Science" at NYU. Christopher Mims (Scientific American), Ann Marie Cunningham (NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday), Kitta MacPherson (the Star Ledger's Science section), and David Levine (Office of Communications and Marketing for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation) will be the panelists, although I'm a bit disappointed to see that blogs aren't being represented on the panel and science…