{"id":2607,"date":"2012-06-07T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/the-flame-challenge-do-better-at-science-communication\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:06:10","slug":"the-flame-challenge-do-better-at-science-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/the-flame-challenge-do-better-at-science-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Flame&#8221; Challenge &#8211; Do Better at Science Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APS Physics reports on a challenge from Alan Alda. He challenges scientists to do a better job of communicating ideas to non-scientists. For instance, he posits, how would you answer the question, &quot;What is a flame?&quot; The article quotes Alda as saying that &quot;scientists need to be able to speak with clarity to funders, policy-makers, students, the general public, and even other scientists.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class='oembed link'><a href='http:\/\/physicsfrontline.aps.org\/2012\/06\/06\/httpwww-sciencemag-orgcontent33560721019-full-pdf\/' rel='oembed'>The Flame Challenge &#8211; Communicating Science<\/a> by Jodi on Physics Frontline<br style='clear:left'><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are in Washington, D.C. to meet with your congressional member during an APS Congressional Visits Day (CVD).\u00a0 You are enthusiastic about your research and need to convey why it is important and why your congressional member should continue to su&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APS Physics reports on a challenge from Alan Alda. He challenges scientists to do a better job of communicating ideas to non-scientists. For instance, he posits, how would you answer the question, &quot;What is a flame?&quot; The article quotes Alda as saying that &quot;scientists need to be able to speak with clarity to funders, policy-makers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}