The whole point of making a “Not-A-New-Year’s-Resolution” was to encourage myself to follow up on it, so another blog post is overdue! This time I’d like to describe my personal answer to the perennial question about writing, “Where do you get your ideas?” For me the process of writing seems Read more…
Like so many people (hi everyone), I’m rubbish at New Year’s Resolutions. Probably because trying to come up with something for a year is something of a challenge – all the targets I could initially think of were things which would either be over before the year was more than Read more…
Something a bit different for the Sci Cam blog and myself this week – a book review. The Martian – Andy Weir From the back cover: “I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer Read more…
I’m writing this on my way back from the British Science Association Science Communication Conference, having had a fun two days meeting other science communicators. There was a good range of topics discussed, from reaching under-served audiences to science comedy to the gap between science communication theory and practice, and Read more…
Early last month an announcement on the internet caught my eye. The YouTube channel Geek & Sundry (run by Felicia Day, who had some of the earliest success with web video series with the show she wrote and starred in, ‘The Guild’) was looking for 10 vloggers to join their Read more…
How do you celebrate the wonderful curiosity of a man who was not only a Nobel Prize winning physicist, but also a bongo player, safe cracker, incredible teacher, and on the commission that investigated the Challenger space shuttle disaster? If you’re Robin Ince, the answer is to celebrate what would Read more…
I had a busy time in the run up to the festival, and then a (I feel well-deserved) break for Easter, but now I’ve finally got round to summing up my experience of the festival. I’ve put this in chronological order. rather than try to divide into what would probably be reasonably arbitrary categories. (more…)
