{"id":28569,"date":"2010-08-17T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-sci-comm-book-escape-from-the-ivory-tower-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:22:16","slug":"new-sci-comm-book-escape-from-the-ivory-tower-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-sci-comm-book-escape-from-the-ivory-tower-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"New Sci Comm Book: Escape from the Ivory Tower | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1597266647?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chriscmooneyc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1597266647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11741\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7fef_Escape-from-the-Ivory-Tower.jpg\" alt=\"Escape from the Ivory Tower\" width=\"175\" height=\"264\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>In my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2010\/08\/15\/sci-comm-training-at-scripps\/\">presentation yesterday<\/a> at Scripps, I had a slide in which I jokingly remarked upon the &ldquo;Science Communication Publishing Juggernaut.&rdquo; I&rsquo;m not sure publishers are exactly becoming rich off it, but quite a number of science communication oriented books have come out in the last two years, including Randy Olson&rsquo;s <em>Don&rsquo;t Be Such a Scientist <\/em>and Cornelia Dean&rsquo;s <em>Am I Making Myself Clear?<\/em><\/p><p>And now there is a new addition that I&rsquo;m very much looking forward to dipping into: Nancy Baron&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1597266647?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chriscmooneyc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1597266647\">Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter<\/a><span>. Baron heads <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leopoldleadership.stanford.edu\/fellowship-information\/trainers\/baron\">science communication training <\/a>for the famed Aldo Leopold Leadership program, which has now taught these skills to scores of researchers. She knows whereof she speaks.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span>I&rsquo;ve only gotten to thumb through <\/span>Escape from the Ivory Tower <\/em>so far, on the plane, but I thought I&rsquo;d give it a plug now, followed by a more in-depth reaction later. This looks like a very important book, and yet another contribution to the ongoing change in how the scientific world reaches out to the public.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/D4FppGbQPPWN3EXyTGY8kT_VlcI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7fef_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/D4FppGbQPPWN3EXyTGY8kT_VlcI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7fef_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c7fef_BoWW1CRFNIo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my presentation yesterday at Scripps, I had a slide in which I jokingly remarked upon the &ldquo;Science Communication Publishing Juggernaut.&rdquo; I&rsquo;m not sure publishers are exactly becoming rich off it, but quite a number of science communication oriented books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-sci-comm-book-escape-from-the-ivory-tower-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}