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3 Chemistry in Print
3 Chemistry in Print
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WRITING ABOUT CHEMISTRY John Emsley started this session focusing on popular "Don't Give up Your Day Job Just Yet" science writing and chemistry. For those just starting out in this area, he said to write for college magazines or company Emsley talked about what he thinks prevents chemists and newsletters, "for the love of the thing, not for any money." other scientists from becoming popular science writers.
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end up saying, become a writer, but don't give up your day SOURCE: John Emsley, University of Cambridge. job just yet." RESPECT FOR CHEMISTRY the technical words or be interested in having all the details Ivan Amato elaborated on the reasons he thinks the field carefully spelled out.
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For example, he highlighted who has a rare medical disorder. Theodore Gray's elaborately detailed wooden Periodic Table.2 Amato also highlighted examples of chemistry in literature, When Amato looks at the Periodic Table, he feels a sense of such as the book Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks.
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cating chemistry. He said that one of the best speakers he has ever heard on the Periodic Table is an artist named Rebecca Kamen.9 She is a local Washington, D.C., area artist, who Table by Primo Levi,5 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson,6 knows all about the history of the Periodic Table and generated and The Sweetness of the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley.7 her own sculptural interpretation of the Periodic Table (Figure 3-5)
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She said that Seed uses science as a lens: "it is not the science content that is the focus, but rather science as a process and a way of thinking and a way FROM MAGAZINES TO BLOGS of understanding the world around us." Joy Moore talked about her company's transition from print Moore explained that Seed magazine, which has been to digital media. She explained that Seed Media Group (Seed)
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image of carbon is typically not treated as a chemistry story either; it will be an and phenolic inverse opals (image width ~17 mm)
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The Seed Media had published more than 135,000 individual goal was to raise public engagement in science by creating blog posts across the platform of bloggers, according to a platform for conversation about science between scientists Moore. It has attracted more than 2 million comments, and nonscientists, she said.
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Bill Carroll asked Joy Moore about the blogs and scienBloggers who occasionally discuss journal articles on their tific discourse. He commented, "One of the things that I find blog sites can join the Seed Research Blogging commu- discouraging about reading many blogs or various comments nity.
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Lyons John Miller with the Department of Energy asked Moore asked if there was a way to get the public to recognize the if she thinks the activity on Research Blogging might even critical role that chemistry plays in stories that are perceived tually replace the peer review system for journal articles. to be about something else.
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