Comments on: Why is Science Important?

By: Mr. Jody Bowie

Mr. Jody Bowie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:17:23 +0000

Fantastic! Well made video, by a PHYSICS teacher no less. I love that there are other physics teachers spreading the good word. I will definitely be making this a part of my nature of science discussion at the beginning of each semester.
Students really engage with this type of discussion. There’s nothing like a good discrepant event. Thanks for recognizing him!

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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:43:55 +0000

[...] reflection on careers, and “Software is dead: long live the software” By Guru [1] Mark at Cosmic Variance recommends a movie: Projects like this don’t change the world on their own, of course. But as part of a common goal [...]

By: QUASAR

QUASAR — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:48:43 +0000

Well, then please do so!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:22:01 +0000

Re. 6.: I couldn’t make sense of it. I’ll gladly reinstate if I’m missing something.

By: QUASAR

QUASAR — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:06:58 +0000

Why did you remove my comment?

By: Mandeep Gill

Mandeep Gill — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:24:10 +0000

Mark- thx for the post, way cool, i only watched the clip above, but it’s clear that Shaha is doing great good in the world in disseminating good info through ‘edutainment’ — something that’s *sorely* needed to oppose the pop culture that so often disses science as boring, dry, nerdy, irrelevant etc. perhaps *especially* true in the US, land of glorification of ignorance — viz. the last 8 yrs of our political culture. Praise God (or the FSM) that this is changing dramatically with the new Admin.. efforts like Shaha’s will only help, too!!

By: Why Science Is Important? | Phasing

Why Science Is Important? | Phasing — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:20:12 +0000

[...] post is highlighting a video that consists of interviews of various people on why science is important. One would expect that the typical, standard response is that science allows us to progress in our [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:49:22 +0000

I’ve no idea Mike – I haven’t read the book.

By: Why Study Science? | Tangled Up in Blue Guy

Why Study Science? | Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:23:38 +0000

[...] tip to Mark at Cosmic Variance, who writes: Projects like this don’t change the world on their own, of course. But as part of a common goal [...]

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:52:10 +0000

I haven’t read Unscientific America yet; so I will just ask whether or not Chris and Sheril address this sort of approach to popularizing the need to understand science.

It seems to me that this is another example of the ways in which science communication is being spread through social media, and that the problem doesn’t lie with science communicators but the amount of attention that science communication competes with.