science

Climate Crisis: Bringing science and journalism together 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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
climate crisis

Understanding the meme 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,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
memes

Drink black coffee? You may be a psycho 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
coffee

LeWeb: Adam Gazzaley will fix your brain with neurogames 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
games

Why did the Evening Standard focus on an engineer's sex appeal? 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
evening standard

#leweb - Ramez Naam and our cyborg future 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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
body modification

Matter: is its long-form science journalism worth reading? Members Public

How is Kickstarted long-form science journalism startup Medium performing? Pretty well, so far…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ebooks

The psychology - and neurochemistry - of social media 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–

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
psychology