Dr Pamela Gay

Last Chance To Help Schools With ‘The Edge’ – Educators, Bloggers, Your Help Is Needed!

by podblack on December 2, 2010

…we have AN IMMEDIATE NEED (before the end of November) for letters of support from educators. PLEASE, if you’d like to see this show on PBS, and benefit from all the supporting educational materials which would be part of the package – check out the model letters of support for The Edge’ over on the [...]

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Tribal Scientist on Communication, Science And That ‘Politeness’ Thing

by podblack on August 28, 2010

A little while back I read the following by Chris Mooney, a post about what he considered to be a good example of science communication. My friend Michael McRae responded with his own post – Encouraging Scientists To Speak For Science. I’m intrigued by these kinds of discussions, as over the past year I have [...]

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A Short Note On Dawkins And Anti-Fantasy Reading For Children Sentiments At #TAM8

by podblack on July 11, 2010

From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment: “Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to see others [...]

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