CISCI - CINEMA & SCIENCE

Another valuable source on science in the movies. In this case the information is conveyed as brief files on the use of specific sequences of a film to explain or illustrate a particular scientific concept. Don't just visit the site - why not contributing yourself with that idea that occurred to you while watching that movie the other day?

www.cisci.net

BALONEY DETECTION KIT

Videos from The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Presented by Michael Shermer (Skeptic magazine)

"Science is probably the best tool ever designed for understanding how the world works"

MAX TEGMARK'S (PARALLEL) UNIVERSES

Max Tegmark is an expert in the Large Scale of the Universe, Cosmology, Quantum Physics and Parallel Universes. He is also an excellent communicator of all those topics. Access to all his popular and some more technical works is centralized at: http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/home.html

THE SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE

An extremely interesting tool, amazing in its simplicity. One could give a talk or a whole course just with this on-line application. Give it a try: http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/index.php

THE X-CHANGE FILES

The X-change files is the blog of The Science & Entertainment Exchange, a program of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences that provides entertainment industry professionals with access to top scientists and engineers to help bring the reality of cutting edge science to creative and engaging storylines. Whether you are such an entertainment professional or not, it is surely interesting in terms of outreach to keep up to date with what is happening here: http://blog.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/

TEACH WITH MOVIES

Movies have proven to be a highly motivating tool in outreach and education, including for scientific content. Teachwithmovies.com has created and compiled a huge database of movies and the corresponding materials to use in the classroom. Needless to say, the suggestions and guidelines are equally useful for any outreach activity.  Visit www.teachwithmovies.org/.

DON'T BE SUCH A SCIENTIST - a must-read for any science communicator

To get our site started, let us suggest a refreshing, inspiring and very useful book on our profession written by marine biologist and filmmaker Randy Olson. Science communication and entertainment can and should go hand in hand to spread scientific literacy: there is much to learn from Hollywood! And: you will not be able to supress a smile or a loud laugh while you read.

http://www.dontbesuchascientist.com/

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