by Darlene Cavalier | May 9, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, In the News, Science Policy
From the Associated Press, this morning. It’s been printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, USA Today and many other media outlets: Once restricted mainly to counting birds – most famously, in Audubon’s 111-year-old Christmas Bird...
by Darlene Cavalier | May 1, 2011 | Cavalier Speaking engagements, Citizen Science, Events
Heading to Baltimore, MD where I’ll be speaking at the annual meeting of the Council of Science Editors, tomorrow morning. The Council is “a dynamic community of editorial professionals dedicated to the responsible and effective communication of...
by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 26, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, Science Education, Science Policy
Changing Planet is a series of three, televised Town Hall meetings, hosted by Tom Brokaw and Anne Thompson of NBC News, on what climate change means. The first event was held at Yale on 1/25 and the just-broadcast video of that program is posted above. It first aired...
by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 9, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, News
Some of you may recall this fun video we did with school kids, Science Cheerleaders, bar patrons, Chemical Heritage Foundation President Tom Tritton and Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch Blumberg. Well, as reported, “Dr. Blumberg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 19, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science
Here’s a powerful guest post, currently featured on SciCheer’s sister-site, ScienceForCitizens.net. Check it out! Ponder for a moment this quote written by Aldo Leopold in the late 1940s: “We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel,...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Interviews, Science Cheerleader Performances and News, Science Education
Science literacy is crucial to understanding the inner workings of things in our day-to day lives—weather patterns, Smart Phones, genetically modified foods—but many adults lack the tools to understand and discuss how science affects them (full disclosure: that...
