Table of Contents

#1) THE BENSHI BEGINS…The Evolving World Of Science: What We Can Learn From Our Critics - January 4
#2) Why the world of science needs THE IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL - January 7
#3) STORYTELLING: The Power of Specifics - January 11
#4) PART I – CASTING, CASTING, CASTING: Selecting a spokesperson for television - January 14
#5) PART II – CASTING, CASTING, CASTING: How to deal with public “debates” - January 18
#6) THE POWER OF SLOGANS - January 21
#7) FALLING POLAR BEARS: What makes for an effective P.S.A.? - January 25
#8) INTERVIEW: TOM HOLLIHAN, USC Annenberg School for Communication — “Storytelling and Global Warming” - January 28
#9) THE SUPER BOWL: Does anybody REALLY want to solve anything? - February 1
#10) INTERVIEW: Christopher Keane, Screenwriter, Author of 14 books, Screenwriting Instructor - February 4
#11) THREE UPDATES: SPECIFICS OF STORYTELLING, CASTING, AND THE SUPER BOWL AD - February 8
#12) INTERVIEW: Jeremy Rowley – Why the Science World NEEDS Improv Training - February 11
#13) MIKE MANN Part I: The Media are Not Necessarily Your Friends - February 15
#14) MIKE MANN Part II: INTERVIEW – Who will provide communication expertise and leadership for the science community? - February 18
#15) SPEED: What the world of science communication needs - February 22
#16) INTERVIEW: Screenwriter MARGARET NAGLE – Dorothy was a scientist! - February 25
#17) INTERVIEW WITH MARC MORANO: PART I – “The Muhammad Ali of Global Warming ‘Debating’” - March 1
#18) INTERVIEW WITH MARC MORANO: PART II – Naming Names (Bill McKibben, Exxon Mobil, George Monbiot, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Romm, Dan Weiss, Robert Murtha, Mike Mann, Ed Begley, Jr., Andy Revkin, and Ralph Cicerone) - March 4
#19) ANALYSIS: WHY MARC MORANO IS SUCH A GOOD COMMUNICATOR - March 8
#20) WARM UP TO ED BEGLEY, JR. - March 11
#21) MARC MORANO SUMMARY: DO NOT DEBATE (unless you are a professional comedian) - March 15
#22) ED BEGLEY, JR. INTERVIEW: A Voice for the Planet - March 18
#23) MARC MORANO FINAL SUMMARY: COMMENTS RECEIVED - March 22
#24) TERMINATOR 5: POSTPONEMENT DAY - March 25
#25) THE “DON’T BE SUCH A SCIENTIST” ANALYSIS OF “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH” (SPOILER: IT ENDS WITH GEORGE LAKOFF) - March 29
#26) SOLD OUT IN TUCSON (500 SEATS): BEST SIZZLE SCREENING EVER! - April 1
#27) INABILITY TO LISTEN: “THE SINGLE BIGGEST REASON WHY SCIENTISTS ARE OFTEN SUCH INEFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS” - April 5
#28) COMING NEXT WEEK: STORY TIME ON THE BENSHI - April 8
#29) INTERVIEW WITH DOUG STEVENSON: STORYTELLER OF THE BUSINESS WORLD - April 12
#30) MARK HARRIS, THREE TIME OSCAR WINNER FOR DOCUMENTARY: STORYTELLING IS AS MUCH A PART OF NON-FICTION AS FICTION - April 15
#31) Analysis of the Storytellers Doug Stevenson and Mark Harris - April 19
#32) The Randy Olson 3-Day Videomaking Workshop Template - April 22
#33) This Is How You Do It: A Great Example of Science Videomaking from New Zealander Steve Ting - April 26
#34) Climate Interactive Simulation and Climategate (“Right, this calls for immediate discussion”) - April 29
#35) Movie Review (sort of): “Monsters from the Id” - May 3
#36) Science: Who Cares? (Why we need the humanities) - May 6
#37) Photoshopped Polar Bear: Do Scientists Really Have to be “Media Victims”? - May 10
#38) The Syracuse Sizzle Discussion with Marc Morano, Ruth Yanai, Mark Meisner, and Randy Olson - May 13
This Week on the Benshi: In Production (on hiatus) - May 17
#39) “Information Pack Rats” and “Scottie the Hottie” - May 24
#40) Practical Advice: Better science films through storytelling - May 27
#41) Where’s the oil spill public protests and demonstrations? I second the questions of David Roberts of The Grist. - May 31
#42) How “Nattering Nabobs of Negativism” Can Hurt Science - June 3
#43) When Important Leaders Blink on Television (it’s the equivalent of visual stuttering) - June 7
#44) Where Have All The Science and Environmental Journalists Gone (long time passing) - June 10
#45) Jacques Cousteau: Out with the old, in with the new - June 14
#46) NEW VIDEO: “Was ANYTHING learned from the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill?” - June 17
#47) The SHIFTING BASELINE of Environmental Journalism: Our Santa Barbara oil spill essay as a case in point? - June 21
#48) The Decline of Civil Discourse in America: From Halberstam to EPIC 2014, “It is what we chose” - June 24
#49) NEW WEBSITE: www.randyolsonproductions.com - June 28
#50) CASE CLOSED: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” proves how boring science is to the general public - July 1
#51) Guess what — sports can be boring, too - July 8
SPECIAL BENSHI – The Lexus/Andy Samberg Hollywood Global Warming Debate: We’re all doomed - July 9
#52) PROFESSOR KAREL LIEM: One of my all-time heroes of science - July 12
#53) THE POWER OF POSITIVITY: Union of Concerned Scientists, our Kerry Campaign commercial of 2004, and the need for Total Tactics - July 15
#54) THE SHELF LIFE OF FILMS: A tribute to the honesty of three Maine lobster fishermen in 1991 - July 19
#55) BACK TO THE MOTHERLAND: “Flock of Dodos” screening in Wichita, Kansas, September 10 for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (I’ll be there with my mother, Muffy Moose!) - July 22
#56) Last week’s CLIMATE LEGISLATION DEATH shows we have a genuine SCIENCE COMMUNICATION CRISIS - July 26
#57) DISCOVERY CHANNEL, SHARK WEEK, & THE IDIOCRACY: Do they even hear Chris Palmer’s pleas? - July 29
#58) SHIRLEY SHERROD: The Danger of Arousal - August 2
#59) LEXUS GLOBAL WARMING DEBATES: Whoops they’re about to do it again (in Chicago this Saturday) - August 5
#60) THE LEXUS “DARKER SIDE OF GREEN” DEBATES: David Roberts Gives His Take on Last Week’s Chicago Event - August 9
#61) Damn. Wes Skiles, the Incredible Cave Diver, Died - August 11
#62) LEMMINGS VS. LEADERSHIP: What’s the Future of Climate in America? - August 16
#63) Plastic Bag PSA: The Desperate Need for Diversity in Environmental Media - August 19
#64) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT: The 6th Annual Scripps Summer Student Films are the Best Yet! - August 23
#65) Off to Visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta - August 26
#66) “Never Again” Moments: the CDC vs. the Climate Science Community (anthrax vs. Climategate) - August 29
#67) Emptied Ocean, Phone Blabbing, the Muffy Moose Show, and Time for a Breather - September 3
#68) A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: You should try to make it to Orono, Maine for the night of September, 22 for our tribute to the lobster fishermen! - September 13
#69) Who You Gonna Call: The Climate World MUST Learn from the Evolution Wars (a climate NCSE is needed) - September 16
#70) “Patience and Humor” - September 21
#71) Mission Accomplished: A Magical “Salt of the Earth” Moment at the University of Maine - September 23
#72) IT TAKES A CHORUS: The Need for “Cultural Liasons” for Effective Communication - September 27
#73) Bill Maher Shows How Poorly Climate Science has been Defended - September 29
#74) Bring Back Al Gore - October 4
#75) My Statement on the “No Pressure” Film - October 7
#76) Dr. Eugenie Scott: Portrait of the Consummate Media Veteran - October 11
#77) Next Week’s IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL, October 15-22 in NYC, is Going to Rock your Imagination! - October 15
#78) VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dr. Eugenie Scott, Director of the National Center for Science Education, explores the potential value of a “Climate NCSE” - October 19
#79) DEATH TO LIONFISH! - October 26
#80) NULLSVILLE: “Storytelling” Does Not Mean Lying (it just means realizing what bores people) - October 28
#81) The Climate Movement: What’s Missing from this Picture? - November 1
#82) Science Cheerleaders: The Power of Positive Promotion (of Science) - November 4
#83) Top 5 Misconceptions About My Book, “Don’t Be Such A Scientist” - November 8
#84) In Praise of Greensburg, Kansas - November 11
#85) Things that make it all worth it: Our “Salt of the Earth” Evening at University of Maine in September - November 15
#86) What can a good video do for you? Just take a look at Science Cheerleader’s video! - November 18
#87) Did Global Warming Kill One of the Greatest Surfers in History? - November 22
#88) Bjorn Lomborg’s Climate Movie: To err is human, to bore is a disaster for both sides - November 24
#89) Rebecca Skloot’s Ultimate “Arouse and Fulfill” Book is Amazon’s Book of the Year - November 29
#90) A MOMENT IN CLIMATE HISTORY: When Al Gore tried to brush aside the entire climate skeptic movement - December 2
#91) Thank You Dan Lashoff of NRDC (interviewed yesterday on NPR) for saying EXACTLY what I said here last Thursday - December 6
#92) “Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication” - December 8
#93) Beating Up the Nerds: The Profession of Science has a Full Scale Public Relations Crisis - December 10
#94) The “Idiocracy” Has Arrived (and it’s hilarious) - December 13
#95) Beating Up the Nerds II: The ENDLESS problem of reality vs. perception for the science world - December 17
#96) KINECT-HACKS: Wanna see a good example of good storytelling at work? - December 20
#97) When Good Minds Get “Sick”: “Under the Boat” in da Hizzouse - December 23
#98) A Fall Retrospective: Four new videos - December 27
#99) Today we are all Hollywood (including scientists and environmentalists) - December 29
#100) END OF THE YEAR: Wrap Up, Resonate, & Happy New Year! - December 31
#101) A “Salt of the Earth” Tribute to Kick off the New Year! - January 4
#102) Dr. Angel White: It’s Mid-Course Correction Time for the “Plastics in the Ocean” Issue - January 10
#103) Why is no one criticizing the release of this photo? - January 17
#104) NORWAY I: A Hippocratic Oath for Science Communicators - January 19
#105) NORWAY II: Should we strip an Icelandic woman scientist of her character through media training? - January 20
#106) NORWAY III: Trying to Reason with the Warming Season - January 24
#107) NORWAY IV: The 9th Iteration of My Three-Day Videomaking Workshop - January 25
#108) NORWAY 5: They BREED Excellence in Scandinavia - January 27
#109) How to NOT Communicate Global Warming to the Public - January 31
#110) A Cheerleaderless Super Bowl: Why Science Communication tends to be no fun - February 3
#111) Science Could Be This Compelling: Coca-Cola makes a GREAT Super Bowl Ad! - February 7
#112) SOAPBOX CITY: Two editorials from me last week - February 11
#113) NORWAY POSTSCRIPT: AROUSE, FULFILL, AND FOLLOW THROUGH - February 16
#114) On the Stupidity of Hating “Climate Deniers” - February 17
#115) The Communications-impaired Brain of a Scientist: More is more, less is less - February 22
#116) “Science Home Movies” - February 24
#117) What can Charlie Sheen teach the Science World about Communication? - March 1
#118) THE DOWNSIDE OF ALARMISM: “If Uncertainty is Conveyed, Credibility will Fade” - March 3
#119) Climategate and Al Capone’s Vault: Same Story - March 9
#120) Sawing Logs on a Burning Planet - March 10
#121) A BLAST FROM THE PAST: “On The Surface: Three Women Scientists” - March 14
#122) The Battle over “the facts” at Malibu Lagoon - March 17
#123) Malibu Lagoon: How to Combat Environmental Disinformation - March 25
#124) THE NERD LOOP: Why I’m losing interest in communicating climate change - April 6
#125) Wow! The Norwegian Students Really, Really GOT IT! - April 11
#126) The Nerd Loopty-doo - April 18
#127) “King Corn” Review: I’m a little late, but it’s excellent - April 21
#128) The Nisbet Report: Bash the Messenger (if you must), but Hear the Message - April 25
#129) Retro Tribute to the Genius of Brian Clark: Penguin Boy the Aquarium Guide - May 6
#130) A Compelling Student Video from Belize to Reverse Your Thoughts on Shrimp Farming - May 12
#131) “Bridesmaids” – featuring six of our Shifting Baselines ocean comedy stars! - May 16
#132) The Gold Lab Symposium – A Model Event - May 20
#133) Malibu Lagoon: A disappointing piece of reporting by Adam Nagourney of the NY Times - May 26
#134) Seoul Brotha: South Korea Gets De-SUCHified! - June 3
#135) And the SHIFTY Goes to … - June 14
#136) Now for Something Completely Different: Medical marijuana advice from an old friend - June 16
#137) Ben Stein’s Day Off - June 20
#138) Bring Back Al Gore: Part Deux - June 22
#139) HUMOR: The International Language - June 28
#140) Andy Revkin, Jaron Lanier, and the Dehumanizing Elements of the Internet - July 7
#141) Go, Gore, Go! - July 13
#142) CDC I: The Nicholas Kristof Outside Article and Public Health Communications Campaigns - July 18
#143) CDC 2: Anatomy of a Public Relations MASSIVE Success (Zombie Preparedness!) - July 20
#144) Plastic Idiocy is Gonna Get You - July 25
#145) My Favorite Video of the Year: The Naming of the Skinks - July 27
#146) Marc Morano’s Sad Campaign Against the American Spirit of Compromise - July 28
#147) Vintage Trouble: Another voice of Shifting Baselines catches fire! - August 1
#148) Shifting Famine-lines - August 2
#149) TV COMMERCIALS: It’s still about Likeability - August 9
#150) Climate Balls: Who’s Got ‘Em? - August 11
#151) Announcing a new website: www.SaltTheMovie.org - August 25
#152) Q: What Do You Get When You Avoid the Lower Organs? A: NY Times Videos - September 2
#153) Let’s Kickstart “Sizzle: The Play” in Chicago - September 6
#154) The Climate Community is far behind Public Health when it comes to Communication - September 9
#154) When Good Things Happen to Good People: Zombie Preparedness and Dot Earth - September 16
#155) My Talk on a Piece of Paper (Visually Recorded) - September 27
#156) Read My Book Backwards, Please - September 29
#157) Contagion‘s Storytelling: A Sign of the Times - October 3
#158) CREATING MOVEMENTS IN TWO STAGES: The Savvy of “Occupy Wall Street” - October 10
#159) An Inconvenient Punishment - October 11
#160) How to be Smarter than the Average Facebook Drone - October 13
#161) Skeptic in a Bottle - October 17
#162) CDC’s Zombie Apocalypse Rolls On! - October 19
#163) Now THIS is the right way to deal with climate skeptics - October 24
#164) THE VISCERAL: Steve Jobs knew it - October 27
#165) MALIBU LAGOON: A Big Fat Victory for Science and Civility - October 27
#166) AGU: Make Your Science Video AWESOME (at our workshop) - October 31
#167) Help Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of World Wildlife Fund on Nov. 17 in Washington D.C. - November 1
#168) The Hollywood Bitch Slap! - November 2
#169) BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: Einstein, Oppenheimer and … Me? - November 3
#170) This is why the climate world needs Joe Romm - November 4
#171) The Tar Sands/Pipeline Protest in D.C. was AWESOME! - November 8
#172) Circle the White House, Make Yourself Heard! - November 11
#173) WATCH THE ROTTEN TOMATOES FLY LIVE! - November 13
#174) And the AGU S Factor Selections are… - November 18
#175) A New Trailer for “Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy” - November 22
#176) The Old Arrogant Scientists Thing - November 28
#177) THE UGLY TRUTH: You Can’t Communicate Poorly about the Need to Communicate Well - December 2
#178) THE S FACTOR: Time for our AGU Panel - December 5
#179) My WWF 50th Anniversary Talk: “Dude Where’s My Climate Movement?” - December 13
180) The S Factor Panel at AGU: We had an AWESUM time! - December 21
#181) Lester Brown’s WWF Talk: You should find time to watch it. Really. - December 28
#182) S FACTOR 2: RETURN OF THE VIDEO CRITICS, at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake Feb. 19! - January 9
#183 Is that a clicker in your pants or are you just happy to speak to us? - January 12
#184) MY ENDORSEMENT OF DORIE BARTON, SCRIPT CONSULTANT (you should hire her) - January 13
# 185) “Logic Structuring” - January 19
#186) Science Talks: Wanna make ’em better? Start having critics write REVIEWS (like the theater). I dare ya. - January 23
#187) NON-FICTION STORYTELLING: Two Outstanding (and evil) Historical Books from Erik Larsen - January 30
#188) New Twitter Address: @thebenshi - February 1
#189) Our New S FACTOR Website - February 2
#190) Jonah Lehrer Takes a Narrow (and faulty) Look at Brainstorming in this week’s New Yorker - February 3
#191) Jason Ensler’s Tribute to Ben Gazzara: Storytelling at its best - February 6
#192) Football: The Grim Reality of Human Risk Aversion - February 7
#193) Every (Oscar) Party Needs a Pooper, that’s why they Invited Me (the scientist) - February 20
#194) S FACTOR 2 was a big hit at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in SLC - February 21
#195) AMAZING: Scientists who actually LISTEN - February 24
#196) Neil Degrasse Tyson: He’s done it again! - February 28
#197) THIS MONTH ON AMAZON: My book on Kindle for a mere $1.99 (that’s cheeeaaappp!) - March 1
#198) Movie Review: “No Room for Rockstars” – a surprisingly good film! - March 2
#199) MOVEMENTICIDE: The Tragic Death of Environmentalism in the United States - March 6
#200) My 200th Post: Honoring James Cameron, Hero to the Science World - March 19
#201) KONY 1: The Perfect Villain - March 21
#202) KONY 2: You Get What You Pay For (so increase your communications budgets) - March 23
#203) KONY 3: Let’s Decide in September - March 29
#204) S FACTOR 2: Check out the videos of the event. - March 30
#205) VANCOUVER OIL PIPELINE RALLY: “If we do nothing it will all be gone.” - April 2
#206) KONY 4: The problem with “Metrics Obsession” - April 4
#207) The Rather Obvious Demise of Intelligent Design - April 6
#208) Best Graffiti Ever: Who says Villanova students are reverential? - April 13
#209) MOVIE REVIEW: “Confessions of an Ecoterrorist” — great film! - April 16
#210) Malibu Lagoon: June 1 Showdown Looms - April 20
#211) BEACH PLASTICS: A motivational video, which is good enough - April 24
#212) SCIENCE vs. HOLLYWOOD: Still two different worlds (for now) - April 26
#213) Congratulations to Scott Thurman and his documentary, “The Revisionaries” - April 27
#214) It’s Time for a Boredom Czar for Global Warming - May 4
#215) Praise the Lord and Pass the Innovation - May 21
#216) MALIBU LAGOON: Where are the (controversy-averse) large environmental NGO’s and Foundations? - May 31
#217) Nobel vs. South Park: Who knows more about broad communication? - June 4
#218) Gallup Evolution Poll: “Pan slosh” or significant trend? - June 7
#219) ASPEN ENVIRONMENT FORUM: Storytelling at Work - June 27
#220) THE “S” TEAM COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP: The Basic Concept - July 2
#221) Finished Baseline? Roger Bradbury speaks the truth about coral reefs in the NY Times - July 16
#222) Good Communicators Don’t Need Hope - July 26
#223) Curiosity: Brilliant Filmmaking from … SCIENTISTS!!! - August 6
#224) ESA Session: Crowdsourcerers - August 14
#225) How do you make ocean acidification as compelling as the Kardashians??? - August 20
#226) A Mini-Tutorial at the RNC on Narrative Structure - August 31
#227) Bill Maher: An Important Voice for Climate Change - September 4
#228) In Praise of Tardigrades: A Perfect Video with a Perfect Spokesman - September 7
#229) Occupy Success Shows Why Environmentalism Fails/Bores - September 17
#230) VIDEO LITERACY: It’s happening with science students - September 18
#231) Driving a Cadillac - September 20
#232) THE VIDEOMAKING WORKSHOP: 11th Time Produces Domino Effect - September 23
#233) Does the Title of Your Talk Need to be a Question? - September 27
#234) “Strategically Managing Uncertainty” - October 1
#235) Romney Learns the Power of Specifics - October 2
#236) Communication Trainwreck for the Storyteller in Chief - October 5
#237) STORY WARS: Romney Vs. Obama, it’s getting VERY serious - October 8
#238) RISING ABOVE: #1 Thing to Look For in VP Debate - October 10
#239) BIDEN: Might as well have had an elevated seat - October 12
#240) Don’t Be SUCH A Presidential Debate Analyst - October 15
#241) CPR ZOMBIES: THIS is how it’s done! Substance AND style - October 17
#242) Get to … “The Point”! - October 29
#243) The Mess that is Science? - November 1
#244 ) A New Normal? Not for Katrina, Not for Sandy, and what about 1926 in Miami? - November 5
#245) Ben Affleck defends the “spirit of truth” in “Argo” - November 6
#246) Bio-terror and Bio-error: Fear-based Science Storytelling - November 12
#247) BOOM: How Romney’s Lunch Got Eaten by a STORY - November 13
#248) Thank Goodness for Spielberg - November 19
#249) 350.org: The world is so conflict-driven - November 30
#250) NY Times Decline Continues, as Predicted by EPIC 2014 - December 3
#251) THE ‘S’ TEAM WORKSHOP: “Critical Storytelling” in Action - December 11
#252) Are Converted Climate Skeptics of Any Use? - December 18
#253) CHARLES DURNING: Great War Hero, Great Actor, but Malmady Survivor? - December 26
#254) HAPPY NEW YEAR: Who will arouse the masses in 2013? - January 3
#255) TONE MATTERS: Stupid, stupid science bloggers - January 5
#256) TRUST and LIKEABILITY: My “Options Politique” Article - January 14
#257) ROBERT TREAT PAINE: A Marine Biology Career to Dream Of - January 17
#258) BARNACLE SEX: Apparently size isn’t everything after all - January 23
#259) DEBATING MORANO: Why… oh, why? - January 24
#260) LACK OF LEADERSHIP: Bane of the Climate Movement - January 25
#261) CLIMATE SKEPTICS: Ignore vs. Boycott? - January 28
#262) A Case of Marine Biological Impotence - February 4
#263) NRDC Demonstrates Effective Storytelling (nicely) - February 11
#264) The Cerebral-Visceral Analysis of the Climate Rally - February 20
#265) REFERENCE POINT 1979: Climate is not a mass movement (yet) - February 25
#266) Curb Carbon or Fission Fast? - February 28
#267) FRACKING: Celebrities vs. Scientists - March 6
#268) A GREAT “Night Skies” Video from the National Park Service - March 12
#269) Botched Messaging for Shark Conservation - March 15
#270) THE PROCESS COMMUNICATION MODEL WORKSHOP: What the Climate Crowd Needs - March 18
#271) SCIENTIST IMPROV TESTIMONY: This is awesome! - March 21
#272) MARCH MADNESS: The Story Today is the Coaches, not the Players - March 26
#273) TEDMED 2013: I’ll be “And, But, and Thereforeing” the crowd - April 8
#274) Nicholas Kristof: The Best in Journalism Today - April 22
#275) The Streetlight Effect, Ocean Cheerleading, and Hong Kong - April 29
#276) Animal Truthiness: Fudging a Chimp Movie - May 6
#277) Improv at it’s Best: The Groundlings “Crazy Uncle Joe Show” — go see it! - May 9
#278) TV gooood, not baaaaad - May 15
#279) The Pace Univ. Baja Turtle Doc: The Changing of Minds - May 24
#280) The And, But and Therefore of my TEDMED Talk - June 13
#281) Vintage Trouble: Pushing Pelvises - June 18
#282) Peer Reviewed Documentaries? - July 10
#283) The Tragedy of “Kon Tiki” (the movie) - July 10
#284) The Processed Food Myth: More Storytelling Run Amok - July 16
#285) The End of Movies As You Knew and Loved Them - July 16
#286) Josh Fox and Fracking: Beware the Simple Storyteller - July 18
#287) My Bird Emerges! - July 24
#288) Celebrity Status for Barnacles - July 25
#289) Note to Climate Crowd: “Without conflict, a story dies” - July 30
#290) Google and Inhofe, sittin’ in a tree, kay-aye-ess-ess-aye-en-gee! - August 1
#291) “NARRATIVE NEEDS”: Villain Shortage? - August 5
#292) NEW BOOK AND APP: Coming next month - August 7
#293) From Makers to Donuts: The Youtube World You Probably Don’t Know - August 14
#294) COMMUNICATION GLUTTONY: Our New Book Fights It - August 20
#295) NATURAL BORN STORYTELLERS? Not so fast - August 22
#296) @CNXNStory – Join the Twitter Feed for the New Book and App! - August 29
#297) OBAMA: The tragedy of no narrative skills for Syria - September 2
#298) Simple Stories of Brain Science: A Problem of Science Today - September 3
#299) The Book is now UP on Amazon - September 6
#300) Our New CONNECTION STORYMAKER App! - September 11
#301) My Two Books: “Problem,” then “Solution” - September 16
#302) CONNECTION: Storymaker Workshop Description - September 17
#303) KINDLE: The book is finally up! - September 23
#304) Crowd-sourcing Presentations with our new Connection Storymaker App - September 25
#305) FREE APP FRIDAY (and Thursday): Oct 3, 4 - September 30
#306) Nancy Duarte: The Obi Wan Kenobi of Presentation Skills - October 7
#307) SURF WISDOM: “Give us the trailer, not the entire movie.” - October 9
#308) Connection Workshop: Monterey Bay Aquarium - October 18
#309) “Gravity”: Get out your Connection Storymaker App - October 21
#310) Who Needs Malcolm Gladwell When You’ve Got Joseph Campbell? - October 23
#311) FREE App Friday and a followup on the Gladwell-Campbell bit - October 24
#312) My Tremendous Co-authors, Dorie and Brian - November 1
#313) CERF: Anatomy of a Successful Plenary Panel on Sea Level Rise - November 6
#314) Skeptic Magazine Podcast: Discussing “Connection” - November 11
#315) LOGLINE WISDOM: Louis C.K., Self-deprecation and Element #2 (“The Flaw”) - November 13
#316) IPCC Releases a Boring Video - November 21
#317) The Best “CBS 48 Hours Mystery” Ever - November 24
#318) VIDEO: Our Sea Level Rise Plenary Panel at CERF - November 27
#319) My Letter in Science this Week - December 6
#320) My Letter in Science: What a short strange trip it’s been - December 9
#321) VIDEO: Chris Palmer is a Voice for the Future of Nature - December 12
#322) Revkin: On the Right Track with Global Warming and Simple Storytelling Problem - December 16
#323) All I want for Christmas is an Unboring Planet - December 23
#324) GAVIN SCHMIDT vs. TAMSIN EDWARDS on climate science advocacy: I’m with Gavin - December 27
#325) HAPPY NEW YEAR: We’re Gonna Survive!!! (which just heightens the narrative imperative) - January 1
#326) SICB Plenary: Trying to Sway Tough Science Minds - January 6
#327) A Storify Log of Randy Olson’s SICB Visit (assembled by Steph Yin) - January 7
#328) Bill Nye the Evolution Guy: A chance to make the masses “Like” evolution - January 8
#329) WSP MODEL: A New Perspective - January 9
#330) HERE YOU GO: Actual DATA proving the power of the ABT (are you happy now, scientists?) - January 13
#331) Tweeting ABT’s: Is Twitter Maladapted to Narrative Structure? - January 15
# 332) The Gettysburg Address was an ABT - January 23
#333) West Point Screening of “40 Years of Silence” - January 24
#334) A fascinating day and evening at West Point - January 31
#335) Are Climate Skeptics Headed the Way of the Dinosaurs? - February 3
#336) The ABTshare Project - February 4
#337) Bill Nye and the “Jugular-less” Evolution-Creationism Debate - February 11
#338) HAM ON NYE: I stand a bit corrected, and Jerry Coyne was somewhat right - February 12
#339) LSU, ABT, A-OK! - February 13
#340) Science Communication Rebellion in Seattle! - February 19
#341) “Particle Fever”: A great science documentary coming - February 21
#342) BILL NYE DEBATE: Don’t Be Such a Myopic Scientist - March 5
#343) Is Everyone Following the Rise of Bill Nye? - March 6
#344) The ABT Way of Thinking - March 10
#345) CREATURE OF THE DEEP: Profiling my favorite marine biologist - March 12
#346) The Bill Nye Phenomenon: Something NEVER seen before - March 17
#347) Confirmation from Climate Skeptic Marc Morano: Bill Nye is on fire! - March 19
#348) You’re Invited: CONNECTION Storymaker Workshop Session at National Geographic on April 9 - March 20
#349) The 300 Character ABT Perspective on the Colbert Fiasco: No Surprise - April 1
#350) SHARKS AND WHALES: Whatchu Gonna Do When the Bad Guys Go? - April 21
#351) FREE APP FRIDAY: For my session at the American Physiological Society’s Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego on Saturday - April 23
#352) Come on, let’s save the frickin’ TAPIR! - May 14
#353) TACKLED: A Colossal Blunder in my Talk to 1000 Biologists in Portland - May 20
#354) Decoding Science: My Mizzou Talk - June 7
#355) CLIFF POODRY: The right sort of voice for science - June 11
356) Are Inventors Better Listeners? - July 2
#357) Is Al Gore the Worst Climate Communicator Ever? - July 6
#358) The Communications Tragedy that is Obama - July 9
#359) Mush Wars in Montana - July 13
#360) The AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Talks - July 15
#361) Yep, Watson and Crick were hip to the ABT, too - July 21
#362) “DamNation”: Excellent Documentary Filmmaking - August 4
#363) A Dull, Tedious, Unwatchable Climate Video from the White House - August 5
#364) Is “Damnation” the Best Environmental Documentary Ever? - August 11
#365) “The Double Helix:” James Watson Was As Savvy As George Lucas - August 12
#366) Championing Ocean Champions - September 4
#367) Doing it for the Children… - September 8
#368) I’m with Ben Affleck - October 8
#369) Rob Reiner is a Creationist (or at least argues like one) - October 27
#370) Wanna hear some dirt? - November 4
#371) Narrative Obliviousness in the Science World - November 7
#372) Clueless Climate Messaging: 10 or 30 Years? - November 10
#373) Reese Witherspoon Needs Dobzhansky - November 18
#374) Another Happy Scientist/Improv Student - November 20
#375) The Sometimes Dubious “Self-Correcting” Nature of Science: The “40% Phytoplankton Decline” Mess - December 9
#376) A Climategate Moment for Hollywood - December 11
#377) Good Buoy: Marcus Eriksen Shows a Trillion Ways to Communicate Effectively for the Oceans - December 12
378) Q-Tip Drops an ABT on Twitter - December 22
#379) 2014: Speaking Across A Broad Spectrum - December 30
#380) Communicating Carbon In A Bored World - January 29
#381) Climate Boredom: Muller vs. Mozart - February 2
#382) New Brian Palermo Video on Improv and his ASLO Workshop in Spain - February 10
#383) Improv: A Tool to Avert “Negation Nose Dives” - February 19
#384) THE NEW BOOK: Coming September 1 from University of Chicago Press - March 3
#385) STORY CIRCLES (NARRATIVE FITNESS TRAINING): Three Prototype Circles Now In Progress - March 13
#386) THE NEW BOOK: Table of Contents - April 7
#387) The Story Circle Prototypes - April 13
388) Skillful Messaging from Marco Rubio - April 14
#389) A Simpler Take on Lying: Narrative Dynamics - May 5
#390) It’s About Trust - May 11
#391) Narrative Imperative: Thomas Friedman on Hillary’s Lack of It - May 18
#392) Challenging Opponents Outweighs the Risk of “Helping Their Cause” - May 28
#393) A Term for the Future: THE DECLENSIONIST NARRATIVE - June 5
#394) The Endless Farting and Tap Dancing of the Climate Community - June 9
#395) We Love Melissa McCarthy! - June 11
#396) Mitch Silpa: Comic Classic - June 15
#397) Mitch Silpa: The Interview - June 19
#398) Amy Schumer: A Star is Born (Big Time) - June 29
#399) The Benshi: Mission Accomplished - July 8

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