Treasures - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:43:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png Treasures - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 The Candiru: A Six-Inch SciCom Failure https://www.talksciencetome.com/2023/03/20/the-candiru-a-six-inch-scicom-failure/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:37:58 +0000 https://www.talksciencetome.com/?p=919 This is one story that should never have been. Science communication is a careful interplay of priorities. Words and approaches must match the knowledge base of the audience, always bringing them to a better-informed place than where they were before, and align with the writer’s goals. Scientific knowledge is our collective best estimate of the… Read More »The Candiru: A Six-Inch SciCom Failure

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]]> 919 2017 Cool Science Gift Guide https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/26/2017-cool-science-gift-guide/ Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:31:00 +0000 https://www.talksciencetome.com/?p=783 If it nerds, gift it! At last! Our seasonal round up of online gifting opportunities that will tickle the corners of your nearest and dearest science nerd’s heart. Although there’s a plethora of tacky science stuff out there—hanging a caffeine molecule on a pendant chain is so last year, and not at all scientific IMHO—I’ve… Read More »2017 Cool Science Gift Guide

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]]> 783 In case you were wondering: HeroRATs https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/10/case-wondering-herorats/ Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:16:23 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3641 We first squealed with delight over the APOPO HeroRATs in a cool science gifts post waaaaaay back in November 2014. Always on the lookout for science treasures, we couldn’t help but introduce the amazing impact the rats’ olfactory abilities were making in mine detection and tuberculosis screening in Africa. Oh, and the cute! Valentine’s Day… Read More »In case you were wondering: HeroRATs

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]]> 3641 Up, up and away: The coolness of vanishing helium https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/18/away-coolness-vanishing-helium/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 18:14:04 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2913 Helium. The supercool supercoolant—the gas that keeps party balloons aloft, carries entire houses all the way to Paradise Falls and turns humans briefly into chipmunks—is vanishing. Leaking out of colourful balloons, helium molecules rise up through the atmosphere and disappear into space. Although it’s one of the most abundant elements in the visible universe, it’s rare… Read More »Up, up and away: The coolness of vanishing helium

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]]> 2913 Celebrating Frances Oldham Kelsey for Ada Lovelace Day https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/10/13/celebrating-frances-oldham-kelsey-ada-lovelace-day/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:54:19 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2855 Every year, Ada Lovelace Day rolls around, reminding the world that yes, we do need to reach out in support of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). To defend this assertion, this year I’m only putting forward two pieces of evidence: #timhunt and #shirtgate, both of which happened in the year since the last Ada Lovelace… Read More »Celebrating Frances Oldham Kelsey for Ada Lovelace Day

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]]> 2855 Enchantment and wonderland: 4D LABS https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/09/enchantment-wonderland-4d-labs/ Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:07:28 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2694 Scientists aren’t as uptight or as mad as the stereotypical personalities shown in popular media. No, they buy burgers for the BBQ, drop off dry cleaning and use public transit—just like everybody else. I know for a fact that some even go “squee!”…but not so much over kittens (okay, maybe about kittens too). So, how… Read More »Enchantment and wonderland: 4D LABS

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]]> 2694 Cool science memories from the team https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/04/cool-science-memories-team/ Mon, 04 May 2015 21:14:10 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2457 Enough about you—what about us? It would be correct to say that here at Talk Science to Me, we pretty much eat, sleep and breathe science. In fact, that’s how our mastermind, Eve Rickert, explained her journey into #scicomm for a class of health science writers at Kwantlen Polytechnic University we were invited to speak… Read More »Cool science memories from the team

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]]> 2457 Delayed valentine: Worth waiting for? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/03/09/delayed-valentine-worth-waiting/ Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:11:17 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2350 Sometimes, the best valentines are those that arrive late, long after the roses have withered and the chocolates have been consumed. At around the same time that I started high school, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off on its journey to the outer planets. Thirteen years later and nearing the end of its planned primary… Read More »Delayed valentine: Worth waiting for?

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]]> 2350 Treasures: Natural nuclear reactors https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/19/treasures-natural-nuclear-reactors/ Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:45:50 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1733 I don’t know how other people are taught, but for a long time I thought that nuclear reactors generated energy through some borderline-mystical atomic process that I could never really comprehend. And that’s partly true. But if you skip the details of how fission actually works, its role in a power plant is actually pretty… Read More »Treasures: Natural nuclear reactors

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