A less-wrong, better tomorrow
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,...
Every now and then it’s nice to catch an infectious meme of thought that probably isn’t all that helpful. And when you do, it can be pretty darn surprising how pervasively it’s held. So here’s a...
Earlier this month I had the privilege of moderating a SciParty on Twitter about science outreach programs, and it was a ton of fun (here’s the storify)! And whereas we chatted about a variety of...
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...
In a world where a staggering third (or more) of the American public would just as soon argue against evolution, it’s hard to claim that we couldn’t use a bit more science outreach. And when we...
