2008 Will Be a Second Longer
If 2008 feels like a long year for you, maybe it’s because it is, by a second anyway. From the “Things You Never Knew You Didn’t Know” category: Apparently a “leap second” will be added to the clock on...
View ArticleReligion and Evolution
Charles Darwin would be 200 years old this week. There are a couple articles today (NYT, LiveScience.com) suggesting that it may be time to drop “Darwinian” from in front of the word “evolution”,...
View ArticleUsing Multimedia and Social Media to Communicate Science
I’ve tweeted this and spread it around on Facebook, but it’s well worth posting again. Veteran science communicator Dennis Meredith has a very nice presentation on how and why scientists should use...
View ArticleIt’s Not the Size of the Story; It’s How You Use It
Bora Zivkovic, the blog editor at Scientific American, posted a piece few days ago about the rise of forms of storytelling other than “the kind of short, inverted-pyramid article many in the...
View ArticleRedrawing Darwin’s Finches
About seven years ago, while I was working for the DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program, one of the illustrations I did for one of the program’s science-education modules was a graphic on the...
View ArticleOn #standingwithdnlee and #standingwithmonicabyrne
Background The quick version The long version: On Oct. 14, This Happened. Then, This Happened. That came on the heels of this happening on Oct. 11, which prompted this. And then, in the science writing...
View ArticleShowing, Not Telling, with an Infographic
One of the things I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to produce stories about our researchers’ discoveries. I love this aspect of my work because 1) I get to learn something new every time,...
View ArticleThe American Spirit, As Embodied by 8 Animals
We’ve been snowed in for the last couple days and three-fifths of the household have been under the weather. So we’ve done a lot of nothing aside from lounging on the couch and watching TV. Having run...
View ArticleHow Many New Horizons Missions Can We Fund For …
An infographic comparing the cost of the Pluto flyby with a few other expenditures. Sources for the numbers Cost of New Horizons Thanksgiving spending NASA budget Federal spending on science NBA...
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