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communicating science: January 2007

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Is released on a weekly basis and is intended as a free audio supplement for the famous journal Nature. I believe that the Nature Podcast is an invaluable resource for time and money-strapped students that wish to keep abreast of any new developments in pretty much every scientific field. In fact, the podcast is so good that I often find myself listening to and understanding the basics of research from outside the biological field, such as astrophysics (which is quite interesting incidentally! By Edwin A...

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communicating science: Class 15: Science in museums

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Class 15: Science in museums. Continuing our series of classes on the media of science communication, today we discussed - and experienced - science as it is presented in museums. While your handout (on WebCT) and the reading for this week (chapter 8 of Gregory and Miller 1998) give you some idea of the history of museums, helping us to understand the background to the format and the development of science centres, in our visit to the Science Museum. Ground floor), and Energy - fuelling the future. We'll...

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communicating science: class 19: education

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Firstly, thanks for all your essays - we'll get them back to you as soon as we can. I look forward to reading them. This session acted partly as an introduction to the topic of school-science, but also as a revision of key issues in the history of thought on the Public Understanding of Science, which is important as we approach the exam. We discussed the introduction of this new GCSE. The second half of the class was an activity where groups in role as local business, the university sector, patents teach...

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communicating science: Class 18: Health promotion and health metaphor

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Class 18: Health promotion and health metaphor. Today we looked at health communications. Probably one of the biggest areas of science communication (bar the weather forecast. This area nevertheless often gets forgotten by PUS promoters. This is maybe because these communications don't come from the usual suspects, but from the government. We then had a look at the metaphors. All of our language is actually suffused with metaphor - we just don't notice it any more. Take a look at this ad. Class 15: Scien...

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communicating science: session 17: the internet

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Session 17: the internet. Comic-strip from xkcd.com - a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Mainly because I like the idea of a internet-shaped cake. Today's lecture started with a link to last week's discussion on realism and persuasion in popular science books. I introduced the class to "bob the balloon" who demonstrated, in a very hands on way, Newton's Third of Motion. On Monday, February 19, 2007. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Students on Com Sci course. Buffy the vampire slayer.

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communicating science: howstuffworks.com

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Is an informative and easy to understand website which answers day to day questions to more complicated, specialised questions. It covers a wide range of areas including Health, Money, Science and Travel just to name a few. These categories are then sub-divided into about six areas which make the information needed easy to find. The downside of this website is that the immediate presentation is not as attractive to the eye as say the BBC Science and Nature Website. The BBC website caught my eye strai...

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communicating science: news values climate change

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News values climate change. The news media is often accused of sensationalism, especially around science issues. A really interesting example of this recently was the IPPR report. Accusing the media of "climate porn". But if sensationalism is all the consequence of news values, are the media excused? Is there a place for sensationalism? Warning: one of the press release assignments last year was marked down quite severely for being "too sensationalist" (not by me, but you have been warned). London Centre...

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communicating science: December 2006

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To bring something out of the comments to the last post, there's a new pamphlet. From Demos on expertise. Students might find it useful as further reading for some of the policy and PEST orientated topics we've been covering this half of the term, including the assignment (if you are choosing to design a dialogue-for-policy event). To quote from the introductory blurb on their website:. On Tuesday, December 19, 2006. The Core and dodgy Hollywood science. My physics isn't so hot, but even I found people w...

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communicating science: class 20: revision

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Sarah started this class by writing up a blank timeline: 1985 at one end of the whiteboard, 2007 at the other. She asked the class to tell her where major developments in science communication would go within it. PUS, and events such as the Bodmer report ended up at one end, with PEST at the other. You might find the overview on this page. I then tried to synthesise some of the rest of term one in reference to a sightly 'sensational' story on bird flu. To quote Gregory and Miller on this topic:. In some ...