Tag: education
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Disney’s Fantasia as a Model for Science Communication Browsing the radio for tunes, the classical station that’s always playing is likely skipped. Even taking the broader meaning of this genre of music, the calculated rise and fall of complex and layered melodies of symphonies created throughout the centuries often times do not carry through the…
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Competition has its worth: it can provide significant motivation to work late in order to generate enough data to have your paper be first rather than a replicate study. The desire to ‘one-up’ a competitor’s lab can lead to researchers designing novel methods to study the system in question. It is not without its drawbacks…
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The emergence — and explosion — of media has lead to an impressive amount of content being shared. While this has lead to some amazing things, with not only news traveling globally in nanoseconds but also open source initiatives, it has had some unforeseen and very unfortunate consequences in the realm of science. Namely, the…