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    <title>Nature Network - public understanding of science</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for public understanding of science</description>
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      <title>Backyard biology</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Earlier this spring, at a pub near MIT, about 25 to 30 people, some of them researchers from MIT and Harvard, gathered to talk about what they can do to build a community of backyard biologists. The group, which calls]]>
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      <title>2009: a big year for science</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Did you know next year will be the Year of Science? Sounds very grand. Perhaps it will be the year that an important but nonsensational story about science makes the front page of USA Today or the year that scientists]]>
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      <title>Attacking &#8220;Expelled&#8221;</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - The pro-intelligent design documentary, "“Expelled”":http://www.expelledthemovie.com/, made waves a couple of months ago when the famed blogger/biologist PZ Myers, who was lining up to get into the show, was pulled out of the line and "not allowed in":http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php. But somehow, Richard]]>
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      <title>Watching theater&#8230;and learning a little about science along the way</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - On Friday, I saw a science play for the first time: "QED":http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2008/0324_QED.html, a play about Nobel prize-winning physicist "Richard Feynman":http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html. (It was put on by the Catalyst Collaborative, a partnership between MIT and the "Underground Railway Theater":http://www.undergroundrailwaytheater.org, as part of]]>
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      <title>Science Communicators of North Carolina</title>
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        <![CDATA[Russ Campbell - SCONC is a new professional organization created to fill the need for fellowship and networking among folks who bring science to the public. It includes science writers, journalists, public information officers, teachers and institutional communicators from academia, government labs, industry,]]>
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      <title>DNA Day 2008, Hyderabad, AP</title>
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        <![CDATA[Anil Kumar Challa - Understanding the structure of DNA, the key chemical entity determining genetic inheritance, is considered to be one of the most significant events in 20th century science. The description of the DNA structure by James Watson and Francis Crick was published]]>
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      <title>What can the Internet do to improve public discourse?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - A common criticism I’ve heard about the blogosphere and online discussions in general is that they fragment and polarize communities, rather than bring them together to try to build consensus. IE the conservatives only talk and link to each other]]>
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      <title>What should everyone know about science?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - I was in Toronto over the weekend attending the world’s first "Scibarcamp":http://www.scibarcamp.org. It was basically a smaller (120 people), more local and intimate version of "Scifoo":http://www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/index.html but equally as diverse in attendees (scientists, writers, artists, technologists, business) and in topics]]>
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      <title>How NOT to talk to religious people: a lesson for scientists</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - The most interesting session I went to at the "AAAS meeting":http://www.aaas.org/meetings/ was one yesterday afternoon about communicating with a religious America. The theme: scientists do a better job of alienating and antagonizing religious people than they do in explaining how]]>
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      <title>Fishy news</title>
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        <![CDATA[Lee Turnpenny - Words matter; and we should take pedantic exception to their misuse – a common media trait. For example, I read a couple of years ago of the rare catch of a coelacanth, headlined as ‘dinosaur fish’. What on earth is]]>
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