Category: Hollywood
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Mad Men and Scientists
Season Six of AMC’s Mad Men will premier this spring on April 7 and scientists around the world will smirk again. If you aren’t one of the millions of viewers eagerly awaiting the premier, let me give you a quick synopsis of the series. Mad Men follows the escapades of Madison Avenue advertising executives, as they lie…
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Entertainers’ Sticking Up for Science: The Help We’ve Been Pleading For?
This article was originally published in Scientific American. In magazine reporting (and maybe science blogging), they say three events suffice to indicate a trend. So let me announce a new trend: popular entertainers are sticking up for science. Here are three trendsetting entertainers turned notable science advocates. Actor Alan Alda wrote an editorial in Science last week launching…
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Interview with Chris Lintott: Providing an Entry Drug to Science
Scientists, Once upon a time, Kevin Schawinski and Chris Lintott were working with a large surveys of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, trying to classify them based on their shapes: elliptical, spiral, irregular and so on. They ran into a problem. The computer software for making these classifications kept making mistakes. The human brain, it turns out,…
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Putting Science Back Into The Broader Culture: Interview with Jennifer Ouellette
Scientists, The journalists I’ve interviewed so far may have painted jarring pictures of the decline of print science news and less-than-flattering portraits of the science blogosphere. But this week, I have for you an interview with a science writer and blogger known for her fresh view of the science communication world, her glamor and playfulness. Jennifer…
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An Interview with Science TV Producer Dana Berry
I talked on the phone recently with television producer and director Dana Berry, who creates science shows for cable television. I told him I was writing a book, called “Marketing for Scientists” and his ears perked up. It seemed like he had some things he wanted to say to us on this topic. So I asked…