tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post2137032600676856318..comments2024-01-30T19:45:36.648+11:00Comments on Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Can’t hack fashion? Try chemistryC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-87137688496399604402007-02-01T08:30:00.000+11:002007-02-01T08:30:00.000+11:00While I think that wow factor promotion has its pl...While I think that wow factor promotion has its place (I mean, c'mon. I worked in the Smithsonian), my concern with that tactic is that wow is not science specific. With the continuing rise in pseudoscience and technical-sounding self-justification, some new sort of promotion the shows how science gives preferable outcomes would be nice.<br /><br />A geo-mythbusters, perhaps?C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-72470086399426627292007-02-01T07:03:00.000+11:002007-02-01T07:03:00.000+11:00Hmm. In some ways, holding San Francisco hostage i...Hmm. In some ways, holding San Francisco hostage is less of a tactical suggestion, and more of a reason to care about whether or not the public is interested in geology in the first place. Otherwise, we're stuck appealing to our own desires for grant money and cultural cachet.<br /><br />There was a good Nova episode about Mt. Pinatubo that really hammered the "heroic lifesaving seismologists" Yami McMootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396829286693323508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-71668874485258856112007-02-01T00:01:00.000+11:002007-02-01T00:01:00.000+11:00as a clarification, I only propose including the i...as a clarification, I only propose including the inspiration angle, I think it must be a multi-pronged endeavor. And, what is it that cosmologists do all day? Stare at computer screens, sift through and manipulate boatloads of data? My constant example seems to be Carl Sagan, but I doubt his average research day was very thrilling, yet he managed to do it.Thermochronichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606230819461771700noreply@blogger.com