Now this is interesting, its a report from New Scientist (here) today.
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How YouTube is popularising science
[Cut and pasted from a Guardian article here]
Brian Cox is brilliant for science popularity, but TV is not the only means to communicate science. James Grime explains how small videos are making a big difference to the reach of science.
I have been recognised four times now. Four times! I knew you would be impressed. And what has brought me such notoriety? Is it my fancy suits, my outrageous tabloid lifestyle, or is it my world famous impression of a teapot? No. I make videos about maths on YouTube.
I am one of a growing number of science communicators on YouTube, and I know many readers could be doing the same. If there is a subject you’re passionate about, whatever it is, I want to invite you to join us. In the meantime, here is a favourite video of mine about a surprising mathematical game called non-transitive dice.
Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’
There is an article in yesterday’s Guardian in which the Stephen Hawking shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence. I guess most are now familiar with his views and the trouble it stirred up from the believers last time (more on that it a moment). First here is an extract … Read more
UK Science funding drastically cut back
MPs have warned that major cuts in research budgets and withdrawal from several major scientific facilities will endanger the UK’s international standing in astronomy and particle physics and its ability to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Fermi gamma-ray image updates ‘extreme Universe’ view
The Fermi space telescope has yielded the most detailed gamma ray map of the sky – representing the Universe’s most violent and extreme processes.
The telescope’s newest results, as well as the map, were described at the Third Fermi Symposium in Rome this week.
Measles
In the US it is a similar story, they are on course to have its worst outbreak of measles in more than a decade. Travellers are catching the highly contagious illness while on vacation, then bringing it back to the U.S.
What is going on here?