In his commencement address to Caltech’s class of 2008 yesterday, science journalist Robert Krulwich describes the importance of communicating science–and telling a story
“Science stories don’t always win, but at the very least, it should be a tug of war. And if you tell them right, they have the power to change minds,” he said.
He urged the new graduates to tell their science stories, to stem the tide against creationism and accompanying pseudoscience, and to share the complexity and beauty of nature. Laced with anecdotes of Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Ross and Phoebe of Friends, the talk was pretty good. See/hear the whole thing here.
