Does sexy science exist? We of course have sexy football… but sexy science? Well let’s look at the evidence, empirically. CSI – that’s sexy science. What I mean is that the way in which science is portrayed is distinctly sexy. There’s no mention of the countless years of research that scientists often are engaged in. […]

Here’s an interesting idea that I picked up reading an article in the Chicago Tribune today http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-joannelovesscienc,0,5092553.story where the owner of the site www.joannelovesscience.com, Joanne Manaster was interviewed about the joy she finds in reading science books – particularly books aimed at middle and high school students – so below the level of a university […]

Watching the new Star Trek movie made me think of how the orighinal series inspired technological innovations like the flip top cell phone – inspired by the communicators Kirk and Spock were using in the original series, though they don’t seem to have made it into the new film. The new movie covers some other […]

I have just been reading an article in the Irish Times online about the salary gap for science against medicine, which is interesting in that it is has some data on science communication in it. Unfortunately even though it is an Irish paper, it references UK data. It’s not the first time that I’ve found […]