Rhythms of Life in Meatspace and Cyberland
Several sessions this year focus on the strategies for scientists and the media how to talk to each other better: Pimp your elevator pitch (workshop) - Karen James For practising scientists: can you describe your research, clearly and accessibly, in two minutes?...
In this lecture, as well as in the previous one and the next one, I tackle areas of Biology where I am really weak: origin of life, diversity of life, and taxonomy/systematics.
I wrote this post a long time ago - in December 24, 2008. At the time, Twitter was new, FriendFeed was small, Facebook did not yet have functionalities it has today, and Google Plus did not exist...
There will be tons of stuff to do and learn about art, illustration, photography, data visualization and other ways of visually representing science and nature this year: Science Scribe 2.0 (hands-on workshop, by sign-up ahead of time) - Perrin Ireland Science Scribe 2.0 will be an introduction to visual note taking skills that can be used to augment and illuminate science stories...
Text, image, video...what about sounds? Sounds of human voice, sounds of nature, sounds of science in action, sounds of music...all of those have strong emotional impact on the listeners, but it takes some skill to make it work, to get listeners to pay attention and learn...
In early September, I went to Science Online London. During one of the breaks between fascinating sessions, I was interviewed by Marisa Alonso Nuñez (blog, Twitter).
From short educational videos to Hollywood blockbusters, movie is one of the most persuasive and important media that can influence what people know and how they think about science.
In this lecture, as well as in the previous one and the next one, I tackle areas of Biology where I am really weak: origin of life, diversity of life, and taxonomy/systematics.
As I mentioned before, ScienceOnline is a conference that explores the ways the Web changes the way science is communicated, taught and done. As always, there will be a nice track of sessions focusing on the "taught" part...
This year we are expanding our Health/Medicine track of sessions as well - from the usual one session to five! See: The special perils--and pleasures--of medical blogging (discussion): Paul Raeburn and Maia Szalavitz When Charlie Sheen spread his psyche across the web, Drew Pinsky and many others had no problem diagnosing him—a person they’d never met...
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