This is a collection of projects at the intersection of science, art, and communications that I find compelling. I am interested in building collaborations with scientists and artists, if you are too contact me!
Radio:
- Story Collider: Free podcasts of stories about doing science
- Science Friday: Science and the Arts
- Radiolab: Free podcasts on science and society
- The Moth: Not focused on the physical sciences, but more on understanding life
Videos:
- Bjork: Apps on music, nature, technology: Biophilia
- What do steroids and climate change have in common: video by UCAR
- Scientific Truth on TV: Bjork
- Materials: Mixtape Club
- Your Water is on Fire Tonight: Rap video on fracking
- The Kids Should See This: A blog of science videos
- Whale Fall: What happens to a whale after it dies
- Dance your PhD: Dances that break down complex research, me dancing my PhD
- Chain reaction: using science to turn the page
Science communication:
- Climate signal versus noise: Explained by a dog cartoon
- Power of visualizing data: Social science on global life expectancies and income
- Famelab: Competition in science communication
- NCAR: video about research
Art on science, art of science, science using art:
- Baltimore Sky Space: Community astronomical events
- Anatomy of cartoons: cartoon skeletons
- Tree ring record: literally
- Scientist and artist in NY: meet up to address climate change and date
- Before and after an earthquake: LIDAR
- Nature in abandoned urban places: Philly’s secret gardens
- http://www.artofscience.caltech.edu/
- http://artsci.ucla.edu/
- http://cavs.mit.edu/
- Teaching children about climate models: earth4U
- Challenger Center Earth Science: Lesson Plans
I want everyone to feel that science is accessible and relevant. We all need access to science in this critical time of evolving technology, global climate change, and industrialization.
I am interested in the intersection of science and art as it gets at our interest to understand the natural world from multiple perspectives. In 2010 -2011 I worked with fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers through a fellowship funded by the Jerome Foundation and run through the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota. I am interested in developing outreach programs that increase science literacy with creative outlets.
Anna Henderson 