We at Talk Science to Me receive a fair bit of email through our contact page, most of it inquiring about our services and often leading to fruitful client-provider relationships. Every now and then, though, someone tries to get us to talk science to them...
Ingrid Berman and Angela Lansbury in 1944's Gaslight In 1944, Ingrid Bergman starred in a film directed by George Cukor about an opera singer who inadvertently marries her aunt’s murderer. You might’ve never heard of this movie, or the 1940 British film (and 1938 play) it’s...
As science communicators invested in the ability of science to achieve a better, more informed, less ignorant world, we aim to balance the need for specific scientific language and the desire to make science accessible to a broader audience. Scientific terms exist because scientists, engineers...
Credit: NIH. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: over the last 15 months, your social media presence has become overrun with “COVID denialists,” anti-vaxxers, and other outspoken skeptics of accepted science. They co-opt your comment threads to spread conspiracy theories and harass people who support vaccines,...
There's something to be said about reading a text in its original language, to glean the intimate context of the author and the audience they intended to reach. That's why when long-time client Christopher Wallis, author of Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras, asked us to...