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Science Festival – The Science of Science Communication

Malaysian Theatre, Melbourne School of Design The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Presented by A/Prof Mark Quigley and Dr Jeremy Silver from the School of Earth Sciences. Science has the potential to assist in resolving many of the largest challenges facing contemporary society. However, relevant science is not always used to inform public opinion and decision-making. Is this because scientists do not communicate effectively to those who…

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STEM and Society: The Anthropocene

  Human pressures on the planet as a whole – the ‘Earth System’ – have now become so great that scientists have proposed that we have now left the Holocene, the geologic epoch that has been humanity’s accommodating home for the last 11,700 years. It’s proposed we’ve entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, characterised…

STEM and Society: A Hard-Won Theory – Tectonic Plates in Victoria

Online , Australia

It can be confusing when we hear from scientists reluctant to deal in absolutes, who instead engage in conversations about ‘degrees of certainty’. In the world of science, a ‘theory’ is the closest something may ever come to being ‘the truth’. To understand what modern scientists can go through to arrive at an accepted theory, we’re taking a look at one of the major revelations of the past century: the theory of tectonic plates.

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