-
Zimbardo Tells All: How Psychologists Can Achieve World Domination
The above headline got your attention, right? It got my attention too when a Stanford graduate student offered a chance to hear Phil Zimbardo talk about “how psychologists can achieve world domination.” Well, he never Visit Page
-
Giving Science a Life Outside the Lab
Locantore Editor’s note: This report is part of a continuing series of updates from Locantore during her Media Fellowship at the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch. In some ways, newspaper writing is very ephemeral. I’ve already begun Visit Page
-
Science Writing: Keep the Audience in Mind
It was a story with sex appeal: “Widely-used antidepressants may help slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease!” Lots of people use antidepressants, and lots of people are affected by Parkinson’s, including some very famous people. Visit Page
-
In the Newsroom When Disaster Strikes
Jill Kester Locantore is this year’s APS-AAAS Media Fellow. She began her year-long internship with the Richmond Times-Dispatch on September 10. In the following report, she describes what it was like to be in a Visit Page
-
Views From Our Media Fellow: Communicating About Science
Jill Kester was selected as the APS/AAAS 2001 Mass Media Fellow. Her internship is with the Richmond Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA. Below, Kester describes her background and offers her views on the importance of Visit Page
-
Science in Educational Media: Taking it to the (Sesame) Street
There is a tremendous range in the degree to which research plays a role in the production of educational media for children. Many producers rely on little or no research input, limited, perhaps, to occasional Visit Page
