Surprise-Filled Detective Stories — How to Trigger Curiosity About Science in Non-Scientists
Date and Time
November 18, 2019
12:00PM - 01:30PM EST
Location
Dudley House (Lehman Hall), Common Room, 8 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Three colorful veterans at communicating science share tips and tales about getting non-specialists to want to know about your work.
How do you make clear the central puzzles? How do you show how it matters to them? How do you even make it fun (but not phony)?
Panelists:
- Marc Abrahams, Founder and impresario, IgNobel Prize Ceremony; Editor, Annals of Improbable Research
- Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Carey Goldberg, Host, CommonHealth, WBUR
Lunch will be served. Registration required.