Bleimans in Action
jchosy | January 3, 2010There's a really good point that has been brought up many times about scientists. We suck at sharing our results with the public. Or sometimes we share, but in a way that very few people (scientists included) could understand. One of the problems may be a lack of emphasis on the big "So what?" People are much more interested if they understand the relevance of the findings to normal life. I find it helps to relate the concepts to more familiar things in my life.
For example, fish researchers from the University of New South Wales recently published a paper on the effects of small…
zooillogix | July 28, 2009AKA - a boy and his coffee on geek safari
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zooillogix | July 13, 2009Many of you have asked... what's up with Zooillogix? Over a month between posts... Rambling, incoherent responses to inquiries from the Royal Society... Dark bags underneath our eyes... Hair loss and tooth decay... Some of you might have thought it was drugs. Well you were right. It took Jane Goodall finding my brother, Benny, face down in a back alley puddle in San Francisco's Chinatown to get us back on track. She brought him home and nourished him with rare sunbittern soup, an old Amazonian home remedy. Restored to his former strength, but missing many teeth, I am proud once again to call…
zooillogix | December 1, 2007Last week, ScienceBlogs interviewed Benny and me. On second reading, it's pretty weird. Anyway, for your amusement/bewilderment, check it out here: http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2007/11/an_interview_with_the_bleiman.php