science
Climate Crisis: Bringing science and journalism together Paid Members Public
How do we communicate the science of climate change effectively? How do we walk between the poles of advocacy and false debate? A panel addressed this critical journalism issue at the News Impact Summit in Birmingham.
Understanding the meme Paid Members Public
Abby Rabinowitz, writing for Nautilus about memes [http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-meme-as-meme]: > But trawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic 1976 book,
Drink black coffee? You may be a psycho Paid Members Public
Delish’s Megan Friedman [http://www.delish.com/food-news/a44207/bitter-food-psychopath-study/]: > Drinking your coffee black might be the healthiest way to get caffeine, but it might also be a sign that you’re a total monster—at least according to a new study, which finds that people who prefer
LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/adam-gazzaley.jpg] What’s the state of the art of improving cognition? Take a 60 year old with attention impairment. Well, he’s unlikely to get functional brain imaging. So, he’ll be diagnosed and given a drug. Right
Why did the Evening Standard focus on an engineer's sex appeal? Paid Members Public
An e-mail from the Ada Lovelace Day folks dropped into my in-box the other day, mentioning that Roma Agrawal [http://www.romatheengineer.com] would be speaking at Ada Lovelace Day Live [http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a4a560af0bd589b6c036469ec&id=fe4608d3cc&e=8c204373a0] . That set a little alarm ringing in
#leweb - Ramez Naam and our cyborg future Paid Members Public
Liveblog of Ramez Naam [http://rameznaam.com] talking at LeWeb Paris 2013 The coming cyborg Invasive cyborg technology is coming – wired contact lens, the pill cam which travels through your intestines taking 30 FPS photos and sending them wirelessly. All of those are awesome – but what happens when we network
Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading? Paid Members Public
How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…
The psychology - and neurochemistry - of social media Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/twitter-crack.jpg] Absolutely fascinating look at the neuroscience that underlies behaviour patterns on Twitter [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-selfish-meme/309080/] and other forms of social media: > Researchers have previously shown that certain online activities–
