by Andrew Maynard | Jul 5, 2012 | Communication, Engagement
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement on the Higgs Boson, some of YouTube’s most viewed science communicators have been burning the midnight oil to explain why this is so exciting. Wrapping up this series of posts on YouTube, I thought I would call...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 7, 2011 | Education
Two years ago, I wrote a piece about ten things that inspired me to become a scientist. One of those was my high school teacher. We never kept in touch, but through the miracle of the web, that post eventually came to his attention, and we connected again. The other...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 27, 2011 | Emerging Technology
Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question. It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist. But it’s a philosophy that...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 11, 2010 | Ethics, Policy, Recommended, Society
Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 19, 2010 | Education
The way science is taught, the way it’s portrayed on TV and in the press, he way it’s promoted by science-advocates and science bloggers, often seems to adhere to a rather pompous and hubristic view of science as the ultimate bastion of truth and...
