A less-wrong, better tomorrow
If you’re like me, finding the time to stay sane in your day job, make your meals, feed your pets, have personal hygiene, clean your clothes enough that you’re not wearing that same unwashed pair...
It’s time for a bit of a provocative thought. But first, a thought experiment: Let’s say there exists some crucial matter to social or environmental well-being in America that nearly all life scientists are...
Not all that long ago the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a whopping 152 page report on the need for and complications involved in communicating science (“SciComm”) effectively (for a shorter,...
Each Friday I tend to play the office nerdy guy by sending out a little round-up of the week’s significant science news (or at least my own thoughts on it) to my co-workers. And...
Out of all the nooks and crannies of the web, the place where I often see the most exciting and unique ways science “gets out there” has to be on Twitter. And that seems...
Sometimes when we’re doing a good thing, we forget to look at it critically, to dissect our ambitions with it and to see if we’re really accomplishing our goals. Sometimes we don’t really have...
Throughout my meanderings across the online world of “scicomm” and science outreach, I felt myself a bit surprised to not come across many nice, tidy (and specific!) listings of the diverse and great ways to...
