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Ian,
It's a source of great and boring mystery to me as well. I think I may have addressed it only to you, but am posting it more generally. Our in-house lis serves don't seem to have all the built in strictures absolutely prohibiting a variety of rich content and long threads. They are size limited with seems appropriate to me, but they're not tweet sized, and I not sure I agree with the underlying premise that less is better with respect to text.
C
On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:48 PM, "Ian Russell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just letting you know that your message only came to me, not to the ASTC-L
> list. (Why does this keep happening to people I wonder?!)
>
> To answer your question, you might be interested to see this personal email
> apology Dawkins sent me in 1997, after I complained to him for criticising
> 'the Exploding Custard kind of science communication' at what was then known
> as the British Association annual meeting.
> (Attached)
>
> Despite his apology to me, the video shows him still ignorantly defaming the
> Trademarked name of my science show exactly ten years later.
>
> So, I expect he's also still criticising the Exploratorium...
>
>
> Promoting public engagement with science
> through a contagious delight in phenomena
> *
> [log in to unmask] * http://www.interactives.co.uk
> *
> http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-russell/0/636/305
> *
> Give people facts and you feed their minds for an hour.
> Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime.
> *
> Ian Russell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Carlson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 March 2013 18:32
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Richard Dawkins, the Exploratorium and Exploding Custard
>
> Does anyone have any ideas whether he still holds that opinion?
>
> Sent from Charlie Carlson's iPad
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> On Mar 30, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Ian Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology
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>> I thought you folks should see what our (then) Oxford Professor of
>> Public Understanding of Science was saying about your San Francisco
>> Exploratorium in 2007.
>>
>> http://youtu.be/MNEnZq9UB8U
>>
>> I actually feel honoured that he also criticised my own Exploding
>> Custard science show in the same breath, despite confessing that he'd
> never seen it.
>>
>> I guess there are also influential opinion-formers in the USA with
>> similarly damaging ignorance about informal science education and
> communication.
>>
>> Another 'hard-to-reach' target audience!
>>
>>
>> Promoting public engagement with science through a contagious delight
>> in phenomena
>> *
>> [log in to unmask] * http://www.interactives.co.uk
>> *
>> http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-russell/0/636/305
>> *
>> Give people facts and you feed their minds for an hour.
>> Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime.
>> *
>> Ian Russell
>>
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The opinions and thoughts expressed here are my own and should in no way be construed or attributed to the Exploratorium or related organization, and do not represent an institutional position.
Charles Carlson
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