{"id":2242,"date":"2018-03-28T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T22:25:51","slug":"six-minute-talks-to-stir-your-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/six-minute-talks-to-stir-your-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Minute Talks to Stir Your Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At our Science Communication sessions in January\u00a0 a number of you\u00a0 commented that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2243\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks-768x441.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks-500x287.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2018\/03\/6min-TED-Talks.jpg 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>6 minutes wasn&#8217;t long enough to get a science message across\u00a0 to a public audience.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s a link to a series of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks?topics%5B%5D=Science&amp;language=en&amp;sort=newest&amp;duration=0-6\"> 6 min TED science talks<\/a> that might help convince you otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget also there are a number of posts in our blog archive that will help you prepare your talks,<\/p>\n<p>e.g. March 7th 2017 : <em>Engaging Hearts and Minds: Themes are Messages<\/em><\/p>\n<p>April 21st 2017:\u00a0 \u00a0<em>Welcome Everybody&#8230;Some Musings on Introductions<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May 12th 2017:\u00a0 \u00a0<em>Tell me what I want to hear,\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>Simply go to the archives tab on the left and select the specific month.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you working on films and science blog writing see what good examples\u00a0 you can find in these science communication styles and we&#8217;ll\u00a0 put them up on a future post with any that we\u00a0 come across.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check to\u00a0 keep posting on<em> Knowledge Forum!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our Science Communication sessions in January\u00a0 a number of you\u00a0 commented that 6 minutes wasn&#8217;t long enough to get a science message across\u00a0 to a public audience. Here\u2019s a link to a series of 6 min TED science talks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/six-minute-talks-to-stir-your-curiosity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}