Now, let’s see: where can I find a bunch of extroverted science fanatics?<\/p>\n
\nMy friend Alom Shaha, in addition to being a talented science filmmaker, producer, ex-politician and part-time physics teacher, is in the midst of a wonderful blogging\/film hybrid project<\/a> at the moment. And he needs your help.<\/p>\n \nThe premise is simple. There is one question, “Why is science important”? There are probably as many answers as people, and Alom would like to hear as many as possible so he has asked me to spread the word. If you’d like to answer the question on the project site, you can rub virtual elbows with the likes of Susan Blackmore, Adam Hart-Davis, Roger Highfield, Simon Singh and other luminaries \u2013 as well as the odd Nature Networked<\/a> riff-raffy<\/a> sorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nWith just a few pithy paragraphs, you’d be helping Alom to do some good in the world. As we speak, he’s making a film funded by The Wellcome Trust, and bits from the blog will appear in the film and bits of the film will appear on the blog, so you might even get your two minutes of fame as well. The end result, he hopes, will be to reach people who don’t think science is important and convince them otherwise. He wants to show, as he puts it, that science is “absolutely crucial to the future wellbeing of our world, that its contribution to culture is as significant as that of music, art or literature and, most important of all, that a sound appreciation of science is vital to realising your potential as a human being.”<\/p>\n \nIf you think science is important and want to spread the word, follow the instructions here<\/a>. Just tell him that I sent you.<\/p>\n \np.s. Alom welcomes contributors of all species, but notes a worrying lack of female representation on the blog. So come on, ladies \u2013 let’s raise the tone a bit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now, let’s see: where can I find a bunch of extroverted science fanatics? My friend Alom Shaha, in addition to being a talented science filmmaker, producer, ex-politician and part-time physics teacher, is in the midst of a wonderful blogging\/film hybrid … Continue reading