The People's Science — Home — Creating a conversation between scientists and the public
Mission
Scientists and the public vitally depend on each other. Just as the scientific breakthroughs made 30 years ago shape our lives now, the progress being made all around us today will shape all of our futures. In the same vein, this progress depends on public support of scientific endeavors. And yet, most of what the public knows about ongoing science comes to us indirectly, from press offices or journalists. Although these descriptions can be very good, scientists rarely have opportunities to meet non-scientists directly and engage in open conversation about their work. Worse, scientists and non-scientists face a growing cultural gap that is bad for all of us. The People’s Science is designed to reduce this gap, through a centralized, interactive forum meant to host just such a conversation.
Scientists of all stripes are invited to post short “pop abstracts,” or accessible descriptions of their peer-reviewed empirical projects. Readers of all stripes are invited to read about this work and engage in conversations with scientists and each other about the work and its implications for medicine, policy, technology, and our lives. It is my hope that this forum can provide a common space for unfiltered conversation and the recognition that science belongs to all of us.
Jamil Zaki, Ph.D.
Founder, The People’s Science
bear eating flowers. mmmmmy hear t ahhhh
He’s actually picking them for his bear school sweetheart
(via thelitttlestwitch)
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Amy Stein - Domesticated (2008)
Artist’s statement:
“Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the wild and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.”
(via spookybehaviour)
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fuck this shit.
(Source: jellybutterfly, via setbabiesonfire)
How I feel during the pledge of allegiance. I refuse to anymore
(Source: dropping-a-c-i-d, via sparklybongwater)
”This is my favorite photo in the world - me and Linus, born to a dairy cow and ordered to be killed when the farmer saw he was a male (and thus useless in the dairy industry). A compassionate individual intervened, and he was brought to a sanctuary. I met him when he was a few days old and 60 pounds, and he would always try to sit on my lap. Today, 7 years young and 1500 pounds, he still tries to sit on my lap.”
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
I freakin’ love this cow and this woman.
stardust harvesting starllight
