by Andrew Maynard | Oct 2, 2017 | Emerging Technology, Engagement, Future, Responsible Innovation, Space
Elon Musk has a plan, and it’s about as audacious as they come. Not content with living on our pale blue dot, Musk and his company SpaceX want to colonize Mars, fast. They say they’ll send a duo of supply ships to the red planet within five years. By 2024, they’re...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 17, 2017 | Communication, Engagement, Science Communication, YouTube
On April 22 2017, over a million people marched for science around the world. They came for many reasons — to celebrate science; to soak up the vibe; to protest a growing distain for evidence-based decisions within society; to say they’d been there. But if...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 12, 2016 | Civic Science, Education, Engagement, Public Health, Responsible Innovation, Risk
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has been in the national headlines for months, culminating in its central role at a recent debate in the city when Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton slammed government officials for dismissing the...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 12, 2016 | Emerging Technology, Engagement, Future, Risk, Technology Innovation
If you’ve been following this month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), you’ll know with absolute certainty that the future is cool, shiny and stuffed to the brim with “must-have” gadgets. Reading the ebullient reports, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything other than...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 30, 2015 | Communication, Engagement
Why do people read science blogs? Surprisingly, we don’t have a good answer to this. There’s a vibrant online community of people blogging about science, and talking about blogging about science, and blogging about blogging and talking about science. But...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 5, 2015 | Communication, Education, Engagement
In this age of public outrage and social media shaming, small acts of private kindness sometimes don’t seem to count for that much. Yet even though they may not have the social cachet of jumping on the hashtag du jour, to the individual who receives them, they...
