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Category Archives: Communicating Science
Splattering Cream across Tradition
The Royal Institution is a venerable organisation: dating back to 1799, it is situated in an amazingly impressive building on Albemarle Street in London. This was the road that became the original one way street in order to cope with … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Friday Evening Discourse, goo, Royal Institution
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Engaging the Public, Citizen Science and Imperialism
Last weekend I made my first foray to Science Online or, as it is now called SpotOn, in London. It doesn’t matter that I still regard myself as a novice in the world of social media (and yes, the words … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, History of Science, Research
Tagged Careers, Galaxy Zoon, Joseph Hooker, public engagement, SpotOn London
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To Begin at the Beginning
It seems obvious: any piece of writing should have a beginning, a middle and an end. But how often have I heard the lack of structure moaned about by those folk who have to read some prose, in particular supervisors … Continue reading
Classical Public Engagement?
One of the things I have noticed in the past couple of years is that all kinds of interesting and unexpected invitations come my way. I think this is something arising from the award of the L’Oreal/UNESCO Laureate in 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science
Tagged Essential Classics, public engagement, Sarah Walker, UNESCO
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Risk, Education and Politicians
As usual I’m a trifle behindhand in my reading, so only now am I catching up with the Darwin Lectures on Risk, a series of lectures given in 2010 and now available as a book or on your Kindle). This … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education, Uncategorized
Tagged British Academy, David Spiegelhalter, mathematics, quantitative skills, risk, statistics
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