Lale Byquist refused to let her glossophobia—i.e. fear of public speaking—stand in her way. Her method? “Learning everything about the fear of public speaking and ways to conquer it”. Her structured knowledge now makes up the website presentationskills.me. This web article concludes the theme “Using oral communication to inform, inspire and instigate”. Hi Lale! The way you […]
Thomai Dion, who calls herself pharmacist, mom, author, artist and science communicator, believes it is never too early to start learning. Therefore she created the “Think-A-Lot-Tots” collection of educational children’s science books. Here she shares some reflections on her project. [The title Animal Cell is reviewed here.] It is within some of the most unanticipated […]
Oxford mathematics recently joined forces with the Ashmolean Museum to produce some excellent video essays on themes from the history of mathematics: Random Walks. In this interview, project leader Thomas Woolley offers a step-by-step protocol for other research museums to follow. In order to demonstrate “the history of mathematics and the mathematics of history” Oxford Mathematical Institute teamed up with the the […]
With her inspired creation showing circulating tumour DNA, Roxana Halstead, from REACH child cancer, Christchurch, NZ, won our Science Gingerbread competition. So, we may not have a lot of contestants, but we still had a worthy winner in our Science Gingerbread competition. Here Roxana Halstead describes her gingerbred in closer detail. “This is to illustrate […]
On New Year’s Eve, a baffled American TV audience watched a live performance by the superstar and ultra professional Mariah Carey go down in flames in the middle of Times Square, NY. It took just a few days for communications consultant Rick Altman to come up with an analysis on how the situation could have been avoided, […]
The Internet is great for networkers, but physical meetings and interactions are actually better. Dr. Mary-Rose Hoja has solid experience in helping science and tech people position and promote themselves. Here she gives some of her best advice. This interview is a part of the bimonthly theme of Nov–Dec 2016: ”Using oral communication to inform, […]
Web based Advent calendars seem to become more and more popular, and they come in a multitude of flavors regarding themes, content and form. Here are some of the (more or less) science themed calendars of 2016. This is an active crowdsourcing page – please send suggestions to olle@bergman.com. General science 24 scientific takes on the holiday […]