First Guest Speaker

Hi All.

We have our first guest speaker - remote speaker, actually. Dr. Mark Frankel, Director, Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will be talking to us from Washington DC on the 4th of February, Monday. We will be meeting in the regular lecture room at 6 pm, Monday. Please make sure you are there on time.

Do start posting questions and suggestions (in this blog) for topics in scientific ethics you would like to hear about. Ethics in science and scientific journal publishing + what he thinks of the standards/ethics in science writing these days... think along these lines.

We need to have a rough list ready before the talk.

Start thinking:)

vijaya

Making Science Accessible - Some interesting reading

A List of books - just some I know of. Please feel free to add to this list

1. How the World Works – Boyce Rensberger
2. The Beak of the Finch – Jonathan Weiner
3. Longitude
4. Trumpet of the Swan – E.B. White
5. Lives of a cell – Lewis Thomas
6. The Canon by Natalie Angier
7. Woman – An Intimate Geography
8. The Double Helix – Watson
9. Carl Zimmer
10. The Gecko’s foot by Peter Forbes
11. Eureka – The birth of Science by Andrew Gregory
12. Genesis – Robert Hazen
13. The velocity of Honey – Jay Ingram
14. The Nothing that is – Robert Kaplan
15. Why do men have nipples – Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
16. The Time Traveller – Ronald MAllett
17. Surviving Armageddon – Bill McGuire
18. A Natural History of the Senses – Diane Ackerman
19. The Mind’s Sky – Timothy Ferris
20. Bad Science - The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion –Gary Taubes
21. The Monkey Wars – Deborah Blum
22. The Constants of Nature – John D. Barrow
23. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
24. The Best American Science Writing – 20…
    

Share ideas

Hi All!

Welcome to Science Journalism/Writing. As you can expect, this is a tough class to teach as the beat is so vast and varied. So, this is my thought - let's start this blog and share information as the class progresses. Please post as often and as much as you would like - giving me ideas and suggestions on topics you would like to see covered.

Also, this is the forum where we are going to prepare for the final debate - research, questions, ideas and thoughts on the topic we choose for the final debate.

I would like to see posts from every member of our class as I would like to use this to evaluate your class participation and preparation.

So, blog away and see you here soon.