Science Cheerleaders – Is There a Role for Hollywood Hyper-publicity in...
Over the past two months, I’ve been watching Years of Living Dangerously (YLD), a nine-part documentary series examining the issues and politics of climate change science through the eyes of popular...
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Red Lights, Dark Nights, and Heavenly Bodies – Field Notes from a Star Party
For a fleeting moment, I am blind. Standing frozen in the dark, I am afraid to take even a single step while waiting for my pupillary light reflex to kick in. Happy voices murmur in the deep darkness...
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And the State of American’s Understanding of Science is…Not Bad
For me, Christmas sometimes comes twice a year. The release of the National Science Foundation’s biennial quantitative data report to Congress on the state of American science, engineering, and...
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Are You Singing of Science?
In January, researchers from National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan and Alpen-Adria-Universität in Austria published a study in the journal Public Understanding of Science exploring the use of...
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Entertaining Science: A report from a colloquy at the intersection of science...
Image courtesy the University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. As you read this post, members of a community of like-minded scholars are unwinding after a...
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From Cave to Rave: What Digital Technologies and Social Media Could Mean for...
A month ago, global science news was abuzz with the addition of a new ancestor to our human family. The revelation of the discovery and recovery by paleoanthropologists of more than 1,500 hominid bones...
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The Rise of Citizen Science, Part I: A Principled Approach
This is the first in a two-part series about the rise of citizen science, from CASTAC Contributing Editor Todd Hanson. When it comes to science, Albert Einstein was an amateur. Well, at least he was...
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The Rise of Citizen Science, Part II: Building Capacity
Earlier this month, I posted about how a principled approach to citizen science could help shape the field. In this second part, I look at one novel online project that’s helping citizen scientists...
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The Three-Minute Thesis in Science
In the world of business they call it the “elevator pitch”: a short, pithy speech that summarizes the unique aspects of a product or service to interest a potential customer or client. So named because...
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The Five Scientist Pledge: Who are the scientists in your neighborhood?
Three weeks ago, on August 15 and the eve of Australia’s annual National Science Week, Australia’s Chief Scientist issued a challenge: by the end of that week he wanted everyone to know the names of at...
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