Hot+science

Message from Ursula about a cool website.

> Check out http://www.hotscience.co.nz/ Some of the featured videos are from the new Big Science Adventures competition where secondary school students produce their own videos - this year's theme is global warming - and the grand prize is a trip to Greenland! I don't think the finalists are all that good this year - last year's were much better (those videos are also on our site). We produce videos from most of the country's tertiary institutions and are doing quite a few more in the next couple of months. My favourite in the archive is Spin Doctor featuring Dr. Ben Ruck from the MacDiarmid Institute in Wgtn - take a look at it - I think it's a good example of how science can be made interesting if you've got a good character and a good story - and once the audience is engaged THEN the science lessons can be absorbed/learnt.