Communication Crisis in science?
In a text that has attracted much attention, David Rubenson from Stanford Cancer Institute makes the provocative statement that scientists ”don't communicate well with each other”. Do you agree?
Hans Rosling: The Magic Washing Machine
Are you, like me, blown away by Hans Rosling’s presentations skills in this video? Or do you think there is a ”Rosling hype” and that his style and performances are ”form without substance” (T.S. Eliot)?
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
E.O. Wilson: ”The world needs [young scientists], badly”
E.O. Wilson, legendary scientist in the fields of e.g. sociobiology and myrmecology (the study of ants), is an excellent science communicator. For example, he has won the Pulitzer Prize twice in the category for General Non-Fiction.
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