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Category Archives: Communicating Science
Writing, Creativity and Grief
What acts are best to provoke creativity? Some poets – from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dylan Thomas – seem to have felt that drug- or alcohol- induced hazes may be effective, but I don’t think many scientists would recommend that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sam Edwards, Thomas Edison
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Will Biography be a Lost Art?
As a young postdoc I arrived, fairly literally penniless in the USA in October 1977. I had flown with the forerunner of today’s low-cost airlines, Freddie Laker, on his new invention of ‘standby’ fares. You turned up on the day … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged email, letters, Maggie Thatcher, New York, Winston Churchill
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Nothing’s Wasted
No doubt the majority of my readers are far more familiar with TEDx talks than I am, and have watched many more than I have. They are a notion that has floated past me occasionally. I have been asked to … Continue reading
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Tagged media, memory, TEDx, Whitehall
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Soul Music
We all have parts of our characters – beyond our work-face – that we feel are important to us. Be it that we like poetry, going for walks or collecting teaspoons, we feel this hobby or habit in part defines … Continue reading
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Tagged Desert Island Discs, piano, Radio 3
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Getting to Grips with Writing
How did you feel when your supervisor first asked you to draft a piece of writing, whether it was a journal article or perhaps your thesis itself? Excited or terrified? Was it any different the next time and the next? … Continue reading
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Tagged co-author, communication, Lisa Emerson, thesis
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