Month: July 2012

  • Europe’s Energy Future: Flaws, Hopes & Challenges in Science Journalism

    Europe’s Energy Future: Flaws, Hopes & Challenges in Science Journalism

    EUSJA Seminar at ESOF 2012 Dublin – It was a few hours before the closing ceremony on Sunday, July 15, when the EUSJA seminar finally was held. „What will power Europe’s future? Nuclear Energy: Hope, Disaster, Flawed Alternative“ attracted some 60 people in Dublin’s Conference Center. EUSJA’s honorary secretary Wolfgang C. Goede explained Germany’s surprising…

  • A few notes, and images, after ESOF 2012 in Dublin

    I invite you to look at the photographs Wolfgang posted in the photo gallery here. They show the EUSJA stand during the ESOF meeting in Dublin. The stand wasn’t always this busy but it was buzzing then as we hosted a reception for our colleagues from Denmark who were delighted to meet so many EUSJA…

  • Is Science Journalism Dead–Or Does it Just Smell Funny? By Wolfgang C. Goede

    While there is a lot of big-time research going on, which costs billions of Euros, our profession likes to act as „descendents of Prometheus, taking the fire from the scientific olympus and bring it down to the people“. This is a quote from Dorothy Nelkin’s book „Selling Science“. For example,  the dream of nuclear fusion…

  • What will power Europe’s future?

    EUSJA session at ESOF 2012 in Dublin, Ireland: Date: July 15 Time: 13:15 – 14:45 Place: Wicklow Hall 2B, ESOF venue Link: http://x.co/laN0 Please put this event into your ESOF schedule: http://esof2012.sched.org/login The catastrophic failure of the Japanese power plant in Fukushima has divided Europe over the future use of nuclear energy. In almost every…