Science Games People Play

Raymond Nakamura and Liz Martin-Silverstone, Multimedia co-editors With the hashtag PokeBlitz, Canadian entomologist Morgan Jackson used the Pokemon Go craze to encourage people to appreciate biodiversity. This inspired us to peek at other ways computer games communicate science. Benefits “Games are fundamental to the way we learn,” said Jeremy Friedberg, a molecular genetics PhD turned […]

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Science Borealis featured blog: Laura Ulrich – Monsters and Molecules

Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors After our Science Borealis Reader Survey, we randomly selected four participating blogs to be profiled here on the Borealis Blog during 2016. This is the second of those featured posts.   RN: I’m delighted to introduce my new Multimedia co-editor, Liz Martin-Silverstone, a paleontological powerhouse studying across the […]

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