January workshop

At our January workshop we discuss two draft texts that use stories of the past to help illuminate cutting-edge science. First, an opinion essay on neuroscience and nutrition taps the author’s cross-cultural family memories to engage with contemporary public debates, then an innovative lay summary for a PhD thesis on rare mitochondrial disease uses fictional reconstruction of the past to engage a wide general audience. Details below.

Speaking of time (and space), also this month we have a fun bonus:

A college student from New York City joins us, fresh from having taken a course with one of the world’s most successful living science communicators, the theoretical physicist Brian Greene. During dinner we hear a little about studying with Greene, and how it led to the student's own science-communication art project. For background, we can also read a short excerpt of Greene’s writing: “Swiss Cheese and the Cosmos” (excerpt from The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos).

Working summary coming soon ...

Image: Siraphol Siricharattakul, Vecteezy