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Making Science Accessible

Making Science Accessible

by Len Fisher | 2 May 2014 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing

Interview on BBC Radio Wiltshire

Letter to “Nature”: “Shaping policy: Science and politics need more empathy”

by Len Fisher | 5 Jan 2014 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing

Nature Vol. 481 (2012) 29 Some important pointers for improving communication between scientists and politicians (Nature 480, 153; 2011) emerged from a meeting last year between the two groups, organized by the International Risk Governance Council. Support for...

Wrong Turns and Dead Ends

by Len Fisher | 5 Dec 2013 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing

A review of “Brilliant Blunders” by Mario Livy (published in Physics World, December 2013) Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio (2013 Simon...

Letter to Radio Times re Uri Geller

by Len Fisher | 27 Jul 2013 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing

Radio Times, July 27 – August 2 (2013) A one-hour homage to Uri Geller? With no sceptical comment, and no reference to the number of times that this fake has been exposed on television and elsewhere? Shame, BBC, for so tarnishing your image, and shame especially to...

Risk and Resilience

by Len Fisher | 27 Jun 2013 | Think Like a Scientist: Media and Writing

Opening address to IRGC Expert Workshop “Governance of Slow-Developing Catastrophic Risk”, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, June 27-28 (2013)
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