Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Speaking Science 2.0 Available on YouTube

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The talk that Chris Mooney and I gave earlier this month at the meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is now available on YouTube. In the next few weeks, AIBS will be posting on its Website synchronized footage of the PowerPoint slides that we allude to in the YouTube clip.

You can watch our talk in its entirety over at the Speaking Science 2.0site.

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