That's a lot of science
January 5, 2015 1:28 AM   Subscribe

Every year, Australia designates a week in August and spends that week actively celebrating and promoting science with events, activities, and general sciency-ness. Everybody has a great time doing hands-on experiments, looking at exhibitions, talking, laughing, viewing, inhaling, tasting science. This is known as the National Science Week

As a science writer and passionate nerd I would like every week to be science week.
Which is why in August of last year Signe Cane started her Common Year of daily science blogging, inspired to do so by Sarah Keenihan's 2012 (and still going) Science for Life daily science blogging project.
posted by MartinWisse (5 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
Poor bloody fella my country. "Science" and "Australia" barely belong in the same sentence any more.
posted by Wolof at 2:16 AM on January 5, 2015


Oh, I dunno, there's more than a few geoscientists who'd disagree with that. After all, someone's gotta tell the important people where to dig next…

(With wry apologies to all my geo friends ;)
posted by Pinback at 4:29 AM on January 5, 2015 [1 favorite]


Hey, this is cool, thanks for posting. I've been looking for a way or prompt to start writing/blogging about STEM education in 2015 and I think this might be it! I totally agree that science/STEM/STEAM should be integrated in kids' lives (and adults!) and not just as special one-off events, that I think in some ways can reinforce the perception of either 'weird' or 'unreachable' for some.
posted by atlantica at 6:25 AM on January 5, 2015


I recognise that it's hard to blog daily about anything, but some of these seem pretty thin. Today's article is basically "take medication responsibly and don't mix drugs and alcohol". The only sciencey bit is a link to another popular site that suggests the advice to abstain from alcohol when taking antibiotics may be a myth, although maybe it's still good advice, and also you should drink responsibly. That's pretty weak sauce, and using it as a reference is even weaker.
posted by Joe in Australia at 8:20 AM on January 5, 2015


Australian science blogger?

Abs'd have them burned as a witch if he knew what the internet was.
posted by pompomtom at 8:21 PM on January 5, 2015


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