Winner of the Australian cute find so far this month – albino kangaroo! Since it was first captured on film in a fuzzy shot by a ranger on Sunday, the park has received reports of at least two other albino kangaroos in its vast expanse in the ACT’s south. Friday was the second time The Canberra […]
Weekly Round-Up – Not Letting Your Art Rule Your Head – Rewind For 3th November
It’s the end of the first week in November – and of course, the big news that has us simultaneously elated and jealous is the story of how 10-year-old boy, Canadian Nathan Gray discovered a 600-million-year-old supernova. NASA Scientists Discuss Upcoming Mission to Mars – “The MAVEN spacecraft is currently scheduled for launch November 18, 2013 from […]
Weekly Round-Up – From Science Shutdowns To Accuracy In Gravity – Rewind For 5th October
It’s the end of the first week in the month – what has caught our attention? Firstly, this new venture by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist and science communicator: An epic @NYTmag exploration of an important question: Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? But what could still be keeping women out of the STEM […]
570 million kilometres in 140 characters or less
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 […]
How Combining Digital Technology and Science Communication Can Make the World a Better Place
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.