Alan Alda's Crusade to Make Science Talk a Jargon-Free Zone | SciAm

Alan Alda delivers the plenary talk at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Credit:聽Alan Kotok Flickr聽(CC BY-SA 2.0)

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On a cold Chicago night in February, 2014, I watched the actor/director/writer Alan Alda deliver the plenary address the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His subject was the state of science communication.

Mr. Alda, who, for eleven years hosted the Scientific American Frontiers show on PBS, gently noted that scientists鈥攐n the whole鈥攚ere not very good at explaining their work to the rest of the world.聽

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