by Andrew Maynard | Jul 29, 2012 | Education, Recommended
Tomorrow, my 16 year old daughter is leaving her home in the US for the UK. She’ll be there for the next two years while she studies for her A levels. It was a heart-rending decision for my wife and I to agree to her living apart from us in a different...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 30, 2012 | Communication, Education, Recommended
YouTube is gearing up to transform the way we learn. At least that’s the message that came across loud and clear at this morning’s VidCon breakout panel on education. In an overflowing room of well over two hundred conference goers, head of YouTube...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 14, 2011 | Communication, Education, Engagement, Public Perception, Recommended
Blockbuster movies aren’t usually noted for their scientific accuracy and education potential. But since its release last week, Steven Soderburgh’s Contagion seems to be challenging the assumption that Hollywood can’t do science. The other day I...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 1, 2011 | Communication, Recommended, YouTube
Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 10, 2011 | Communication, Recommended
OK so it’s a slightly misleading title, but I did want to draw your attention to the rather splendiferous Risk Science Blog. When I took over as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science last year, I wanted to find ways of connecting researchers and...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 1, 2011 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Recommended, Technology Innovation
I’ve occasionally been accused of thinking big when it comes to Risk Science. So I was rather chuffed to hear former Executive Director of Google.org Larry Brilliant out-big me on every point as he delivered the 10th Peter M. Wege lecture here at the University...
