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September 16, 2012

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4:38 PM | There’s another passion behind the music of Whitehorse: The sound of scientific thinking

thump TAP. thump thump TAP. Melissa McClelland’s soft brown cowboy boots tap sharply on a hollow wooden platform. The sparse sound opens Whitehorse’s Killing Time and provides the song’s rhythmic backbone. While the song builds, McClelland moves deftly around her husband and musical partner, Luke Doucet, bringing found percussion items, loop pedals, keyboard melodies and [...]

October 12, 2011

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1:04 PM | Creating Ankylosaur Attack: An interview with author Daniel Loxton

Daniel Loxton’s new book Ankylosaur Attack brings children into the world of a young ankylosaur, where they encounter towering vegetation, passing pterosaurs and scary tyrannosaurs looking for a meal. It is stunningly illustrated with computer generated dinosaurs blended into photographs of lush backgrounds. In a related post on today’s guest blog I’ve described how the [...]

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1:03 PM | Having a great science conversation with a kid

What makes a great science book for kids? Scientific accuracy is certainly important but on its own it isn’t enough. Great books are also fun to read, but they are more than that too. The best children’s books spark imagination and understanding. They take the reader, adult and child, somewhere else. They lead kids to [...]

July 28, 2011

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8:16 PM | Science Education and Changing People’s Minds: Writing to convince

I find online science communication fascinating. I am enthusiastic about its possibilities and intrigued by its challenges. With an interest in online communication, comes an interest in text. While videos, animations and images are powerful too, the written word is often the simplest and the default mode of online communication–-think blog posts, tweets, status updates, [...]

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