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Is TV the Best Form of Science Communication? A Look at ‘Drugs Live’ | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. January 9, 2013. Is TV the Best Form of Science Communication? A Look at ‘Drugs Live’. It was with the arrival of the excellent blog post on Science, LIVE: A Made for TV Experiment. That brought the topic of TV science and Prof. David Nutt’s new show: Drugs Live. 8220;I should be commended for finding a way of doing quality science, which otherwise wouldn’t happen.”. So, I would like to post the qu...
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How teaching science through video games can engage new audiences | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. January 31, 2013. How teaching science through video games can engage new audiences. In response to my post on the Geology of Skyrim. Which managed a whopping 60,000 views in the first week it was posted (thanks guys! And I am really glad to see this also received a large majority of positive comments. And I have to say that out of the 60,000 people who read my blog not one was a troll! Some of the...
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Future Prospects: Prospects for students in museum and heritage studies | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. February 13, 2013. Future Prospects: Prospects for students in museum and heritage studies. I wrote this article for the Museums Association Museum Practice magazine in September 2012. The link to the article is here. But unfortunately although I wrote the article for free it remains behind a paywall so I thought I would air it here. The heritage science domain is a highly interdisciplinary field a...
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Do we really need the Royal Institution? | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. February 16, 2013. Do we really need the Royal Institution? OK, so I might be a bit late to this blog party, but I still think the future of the Royal Institution is a current issue. So to begin, I agree with Martin Robbins. They do the Christmas lectures! And that was when it hit me, I totally agree that the Ri should be sold. That is, the building should. Chair of the Royal Institution outlines t...
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Amateur Science and the Apparent Lack of High Impact Geo-Comms | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. December 11, 2012. Amateur Science and the Apparent Lack of High Impact Geo-Comms. I was trawling through Twitter during my lunch hour the other day and came across a random blog on fossils by an amateur palaeontologist (I forget which blog, apologies) and it suddenly occurred me: in how many other sciences can you have people who call themselves amateurs? Maybe the nature of the discipline in work...
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#OpenAccess: Some Points of Reflection | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. March 27, 2013. OpenAccess: Some Points of Reflection. Earlier this month I published my first academic article in Geology Today. Which subsequently sent me into a new drive for publishing my masters research. And is also why I have decided to write this blog post. When I published my article in Geology Today, a Wiley journal, I was criticised over Twitter by someone saying:. Yes, and my article is...
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You Know You Are A Scientist When… | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. March 13, 2013. You Know You Are A Scientist When…. Have you ever had that moment where you just KNOW you are a scientist because of a particular type of thought or thought process? Take physics for example, and how many scientists across the globe get so excited about a tiny quark or boson and this helps contribute to answering questions that concern the WHOLE UNIVERSE! Click to share on Twitter (...
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My work in the 10 hundred most common words | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. January 20, 2013. My work in the 10 hundred most common words. So, I followed the craze. And wrote about my MRes research project in the 10 hundred most common words! Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). You a...
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Who Is My Favourite Science Writer? | Geo-HeritageScience
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Geology, heritage, sciences, research and engagement all in an eccletic mix of opinions, facts and fantasy. April 25, 2012. Who Is My Favourite Science Writer? This piece was featured in The Science World Daily. On the 26th April 2012. One day I was thinking about a quote in Terry Pratchett’s novel. Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Although Pratchett is not a science w...