http://boingboing.net/2012/02/28/cocktail-party-science-day-3.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 09:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/28/cocktail-party-science-day-3.html#comment-1356534 Jonathan Badger Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=146193#comment-1356534 Well, at something like AAAS, you'd kind of expect that the journalists dominate. It's more about scientific outreach than science, per se. The theme this year was "Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society", whatever that buzzword salad means.  Well, at something like AAAS, you’d kind of expect that the journalists dominate. It’s more about scientific outreach than science, per se. The theme this year was “Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society”, whatever that buzzword salad means. 

]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/28/cocktail-party-science-day-3.html#comment-1356439 schmaltastic Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=146193#comment-1356439 Bah, from this it would seem that the AAAS meeting is attended entirely by science journalists rather than scientists.  Of course I know that's just selection bias, but still. Talk to real scientists!  They can generally communicate very well! Sometimes they're also goofy and entertaining. Though I guess they can be camera-shy. Bah, from this it would seem that the AAAS meeting is attended entirely by science journalists rather than scientists.  Of course I know that’s just selection bias, but still. Talk to real scientists!  They can generally communicate very well! Sometimes they’re also goofy and entertaining. Though I guess they can be camera-shy.

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