Tag: science comunication
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Ants and the art of science communication
Ants have been in the news this week. First there was Jim Al-Khalili’s interview with E. O. Wilson, a world authority on ants, for The Life Scientific. Then there was the announcement that scientists at the University of Cambridge (funded by the BBSRC) have discovered that ants use three types of hair to meticulously clean…
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Paddling in the shallow end of knowledge
This post was prompted by two things. I, a social scientist of sorts, recently tried to read two books, Smashing Physics by Jon Butterworth and Synthetic Biology: A Primer by Paul Freemont and Richard Kitney. I also listened in to some conversations where people spoke about how problematic they find it to understand social science…
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Metaphors in science and society
I recently had an interesting twitter conversation with Alex Brown, Peter Broks, Bev Gibbs, Angela Cassidy and Sophia Collins about some outdated metaphors for the spread of knowledge and for science communication, for example as transmission or transporting of ideas from one head to another and so on. I also read two interesting blog posts…
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