Preaching to the choir
I got this video from Orac’s blog where an interesting comment thread is developing. This also goes against those who lament the “echo chambers” but those tend to be the same people who write...
View ArticleEsther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty (TED talk video)
Important (h/t Bride Of Coturnix):
View ArticleGoing Mad The American Way
New podcast and forum at PRI World Science: Listen to a story by reporter Laura Starecheski, followed by our interview with Ethan Watters. Our guest in the Science Forum is journalist Ethan Watters....
View ArticleDon’t Be a Sucker (video)
A 1947 movie made by the Department of War – as current today as it was then: You can download the video or watch it bigger here.
View ArticlePresident Maddow’s Fake Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill & Energy (video)
In response to President Obama’s Oval Office Address on BP Oil Spill & Energy:
View Article‘Going Direct’– the Netizens in former Yugoslavia
Back in 1999, during the NATO bombing of Belgrade, Salon.com bragged that they could send a reporter to Serbia – the first online-only magazine to do such a thing. That was a sign that online-only...
View ArticleWhy can’t they do this on Meet The Press? (video)
Republican candidate for Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction and current State Senator John Huppenthal gets schooled by Tempe’s Corona del Sol High School student journalist Keith Wagner...
View ArticleIf scientists want to educate the public…but is that the right question to...
Yesterday, Chris Mooney published an article in Washington Post, If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening. It has already received many comments on the site, as well as...
View ArticleReal Guys Immunize
Last week I went to Philadelphia to a very interesting meeting – a Social Media Summit on Immunization. Sponsored by Immunization Action Coalition, this was a second annual meeting for health-care...
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