My friend [livejournal.com profile] daystreet is proposing a scale for popular science presentations, to combine complexity with how likely the material is to be new to a general educated lay audience. He points out that it's easy to find introductory, intermediate, or advanced classes in Spanish or ballroom dancing, and that people taking any of those classes appreciate knowing which they are.

In the absence of such a scale, it seems that almost everything defaults to level 1, leaving people bored or frustrated because they get the same material over and over, even from different science popularizers and venues.
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My friend [livejournal.com profile] daystreet is proposing a scale for popular science presentations, to combine complexity with how likely the material is to be new to a general educated lay audience. He points out that it's easy to find introductory, intermediate, or advanced classes in Spanish or ballroom dancing, and that people taking any of those classes appreciate knowing which they are.

In the absence of such a scale, it seems that almost everything defaults to level 1, leaving people bored or frustrated because they get the same material over and over, even from different science popularizers and venues.
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( Apr. 21st, 2009 09:15 pm)
So, work, a short workout, and then I came home, hung out with [livejournal.com profile] cattitude a bit, and cooked a quick dinner. This was, more or less, the dinner I had planned to cook last night when I thought I'd be home at a reasonable hour; it was tasty and easy tonight as well, but if I'd done it last night there might have been pasta to go with the sausage, onions, and peppers.

short workout, by the numbers )
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( Apr. 21st, 2009 09:44 pm)
So, work, a short workout, and then I came home, hung out with [livejournal.com profile] cattitude a bit, and cooked a quick dinner. This was, more or less, the dinner I had planned to cook last night when I thought I'd be home at a reasonable hour; it was tasty and easy tonight as well, but if I'd done it last night there might have been pasta to go with the sausage, onions, and peppers.

short workout, by the numbers )
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redbird: me with purple hair (purple)
( Apr. 21st, 2009 09:44 pm)
So, work, a short workout, and then I came home, hung out with [livejournal.com profile] cattitude a bit, and cooked a quick dinner. This was, more or less, the dinner I had planned to cook last night when I thought I'd be home at a reasonable hour; it was tasty and easy tonight as well, but if I'd done it last night there might have been pasta to go with the sausage, onions, and peppers.

short workout, by the numbers )
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