{"id":7793,"date":"2013-03-14T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2013-03-14T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:15:41","slug":"science-communication-the-audience-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/03\/14\/science-communication-the-audience-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Communication: The Audience Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the twelve years I&#8217;ve been at Union, there are only two times I&#8217;ve tried to go to an evening speaker and been turned away. Once was 4-5 years ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/mayaangelou.com\/\">Maya Angelou<\/a> spoke on campus, the second time was last night, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/news\/stories\/2013\/03\/bill-nye-to-drop-by-union.php\">Bill Nye the Science Guy<\/a> spoke. I managed to make it to the foot of the steps of Memorial Chapel before they hit the fire code (939, I think they said the number was) and turned everybody away. There were probably 20-30 students behind me in the line, so even if I had made it all the way to the front, I might&#8217;ve stepped aside and let one of them in instead.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth remembering that, as frustrating as the science communication business gets sometimes, when you can feel like you&#8217;re shouting into the void, there really is an audience out there for it. Over 1000 people were willing to stand in line on a cold March evening in hopes of seeing a guy in a bow tie talk about science for an hour. While I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t get in&#8211; the people I&#8217;ve heard from who were there say it was terrific&#8211; the mere fact that he drew that kind of a crowd makes me really happy.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;Featured Image&#8221; photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahimattphoto.com\/\">Matt Milless<\/a>, grabbed off Facebook.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the twelve years I&#8217;ve been at Union, there are only two times I&#8217;ve tried to go to an evening speaker and been turned away. Once was 4-5 years ago, when Maya Angelou spoke on campus, the second time was last night, when Bill Nye the Science Guy spoke. I managed to make it to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/03\/14\/science-communication-the-audience-exists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Communication: The Audience Exists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,265,37,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-in_the_media","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","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=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}