During the recent Big Science Communication Summit we asked foresight agency Bridge8 to help us uncover how the participants perceived the future. We wanted to give these scientists and communicators free-range to envision how things might be and what life could look like in the years to come. The results were very interesting indeed! You […]
What a fabulous week this is for Australians of all ages – it’s National Science Week and there’s so much to see and do all across the country! This morning, for example, ScienceRewired attended the launch of the Australian Museum’s Science Festival – two weeks of hands-on science involving 4,500 students and 250 workshops. The […]
Mike Cherry, a social worker, finished work at 5:30 pm and the first thing he did after finally getting a seat on the train was login to his Facebook page, but his newsfeed wasn’t as interesting as it once was. Most of his friends are in their twenties and keep on sharing pictures of graduations, […]
“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands” – Carl Sagan, Cosmos Seeing Stars SKA Art Prize is an initiative to celebrate art and astronomy inspired by the world’s largest telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA project truly embodies the spirit of scientific collaboration, being designed by […]
This blog post was written by our ScienceRewired launch event host Ben McKenzie. Ben is an actor, scientician, comedian, feminist, improviser, geek, voiceover artist, games player, presenter, nerd, writer and ginger. Described as ‘geek comedy’s patron saint’ (T-Squat Magazine) and ‘the anti-Hitler’ (Boxcutters podcast), Ben has written and performed sketch comedy, comedy science lectures and […]
In 2011 two seemingly different worlds collided – one was brimming with digital innovation and global online communication and the other was filled with environmental science and face to face dialogues in developing country communities. One half of the puzzle waxed lyrical about the wonders of digital technology and social media, while the other insisted on knowing how these shiny toys could benefit the people and places struggling to survive in the modern world. After a great deal of social media fuelled dialogue and debate, it was revealed that each world could greatly benefit from learning from the other. The result was a new concept and fledgling organisation co-founded by Andrew Gregson and Kendall Benton called science rewired.