communicating science

Today Professor Shahir Rizk and Ph.D. Candidate Maggie Fink join us to discuss their thoughts on effectively communicating science.  Our conversation is wide-ranging, and goes through fostering fascination, treating people with dignity, listening (instead of trying to change minds), telling stories, and deciding what you want people to leave the room with. 

Shahir and Maggie developed and host a science communication workshop and they are also hard at work on an upcoming popular science book on proteins that they are signed to publish with Harvard press. Their website is foldingmoonlight.com.

Alex Foden - or Dr. Foden to you! He is a very clever chap - so why is he hanging around me? Well he is an excellent magician and I have enjoyed working with him in the before times. 

Weirdly, Jesse hates magicians, so we got Alex to do a fantastic magic trick to really annoy him! We took it out of the podcast, check out the vlog here to watch the trick. 

We also talk about all things from communicating science, doing magic, being a successful entertainer and discuss the different types of magic. 

Check out Alex's blog on https://www.alexfoden.co.uk 

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