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Month: March 2018

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Why Use Comedy to Communicate Science?
Jessamyn Fairfield March 26, 2018 October 21, 2019 Uncategorized

Why Use Comedy to Communicate Science?

Comedy is a tool for change. It changes how people think about the world we live in, about complex ideas, and about each other. In this talk from TEDxTUM this winter, I explain why comedy is a great way to communicate science, to foster new ways of thinking, and even …

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Know The Rules So You Can Break Them
Jessamyn Fairfield March 20, 2018 March 22, 2018 Uncategorized

Know The Rules So You Can Break Them

Whenever you get up to speak in public, the audience has certain expectations about what you are going to say and how you’re going to say it, based on context: where you are, what you look like, who the audience themselves are. This is perfectly satirized in this meta-TED talk: Everything …

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How It All Started
Jessamyn Fairfield March 16, 2018 March 22, 2018 Uncategorized

How It All Started

Back in October 2015 I was over in London, to give a talk at the Institute of Physics and to give a monologue about science for a Project2 improv show. At both places I found myself chatting to audience members afterward about my passion for comedy as well as physics, …

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