{"id":2838,"date":"2008-08-18T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/18\/tell-me-a-story\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:36:12","slug":"tell-me-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/18\/tell-me-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/transcript\/2008\/08\/must_listen_robert_krulwich_on.php\">Alex<\/a>, WNYC&#8217;s Radiolab podcast features a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wnyc.org\/radiolab\/2008\/07\/29\/tell-me-a-story\/\">commencement address by Robert Krulwich<\/a> to the Caltech class of 2008, making the case for the importance of telling stories about science to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>This fits in wonderfully with <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/the_consequences_of_poor_scien.php\">what I said last week about science popularization<\/a>. He comes at it from a different angle (and make an explicit connection to the evolution\/ creationism debate, which I was avoiding), but it&#8217;s the same basic argument.<\/p>\n<p>And, as a bonus, he has a good NPR voice, suitable for helping get a slightly fussy infant to go to sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Alex, WNYC&#8217;s Radiolab podcast features a wonderful commencement address by Robert Krulwich to the Caltech class of 2008, making the case for the importance of telling stories about science to the general public. This fits in wonderfully with what I said last week about science popularization. He comes at it from a different angle&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/18\/tell-me-a-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tell Me a Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,28,11,75,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-politics","category-science","category-society","category-war_on_science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}