Science telling stories
In the week of the Science Festival, I came across a great blog from Ines Cifuentes of the Amercian Geophysical Union who talks about the need for scientists to become storytellers. What does that mean? Instead of relying on giving out information, we have to use emotions, humor, visuals, anything and all to draw people [...]
C.H.O.O.S.E. Happiness
Last week I attended a three day positive psychology course run by Dr Timothy Sharp from The Happiness Institute. Now before you think I am going all ‘touchy and feely’ I want to reassure you that positive psychology is an academic discipline that focuses on what makes people ‘happy’, rather than the traditional approach of [...]
What is your clean water worth to you?
Thanks to Twitter (yet again) I was alerted to this amazing web site called I count for my earth and videos on water. The video is called “Tapped” and covers everything from chemicals (including endocrine disrupting chemicals) in the water, to the amount of landfill created each year by plastic bottles used for selling drinking [...]
The House on the Hill : the transformation of Australia’s farming communities
On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the world needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them. Young people leave, farmers sell up, towns die, football teams amalgamate, communities keep reinventing themselves. What’s going on? What can we do? Neil Barr looks close [...]
The power of storytelling
A storyteller, like a travel agent, can gather us up from wherever we are and put us down in another setting (John Leggett) Using storytelling to share knowledge is increasingly being recognised by organisations of all types – private sector, government, non-government - as a powerful way of influencing people and effecting change. At the [...]
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