{"id":313,"date":"2010-10-15T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T10:50:11","slug":"127-prof-dennis-schatz-science-communication-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"127 &#8211; Prof Dennis Schatz &#8211; Science Communication Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, the fourth anniversary of the Brains Matter podcast, I talk to Professor Dennis Schatz, the Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs at the Pacific Science Centre in the US.  We discussed the topic of communication in science, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dennis&#8217;s background<br \/>\n&#8211; What are some of the issues with current science communication?<br \/>\n&#8211; How do you develop your skills as a science communicator?<br \/>\n&#8211; What really excites people about science?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why is science singled out for jargon?<br \/>\n&#8211; What makes a good communicator?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are some of the programmes being run by the Pacific Science Centre?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Mark Wilson from New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM127-DennisSchatz.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 127<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\/au\/88x31.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, the fourth anniversary of the Brains Matter podcast, I talk to Professor Dennis Schatz, the Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs at the Pacific Science Centre in the US. We discussed the topic of communication in science, including: &#8211; Dennis&#8217;s background &#8211; What are some of the issues with current science communication? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,16,20],"tags":[62,374,283,284,282,285],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-interview","category-podcast","tag-brains-matter","tag-communication","tag-pacific-science-centre","tag-questacon","tag-science-communication","tag-science-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}