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