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BROWN BAG: THE VISUAL COMPONENT: MORE THAN PRETTY PICTURES - WITH FELICE FRANKEL
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"Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe"
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Harvard Science Book Talks are a collaboration between the Harvard University Division of Science, Harvard Library, and Harvard Book Store.
• Developing the right visual or metaphor to express a concept or to communicate the unseen is a powerful exercise for two reasons. First, in the process of conjuring up new and communicative visuals, you are clarifying your science in your own mind. Think about it. When putting the pieces together in your slide presentation, or your figure or cover, you are telling a visual story—one that has to be ordered and clear. For that to happen, your thinking has to be ordered and clear. You have to help us see and understand. Article continues after advertisement Remove Ads Benoit Mandelbrot told me how first seeing the picture of a fractal informed the mathematics. The physicist Lene Has wrote to me, “I am a firm believer in the absolute importance of using visuals in teaching and science communication—it is essential for conveying information.” My dear friend Michael Berry suggested in a lecture, “Pictures bring mathematics to life. It remains true that an equation is
The series features lectures by, and conversations with, authors of recently published books on science-related topics, written with a non-specialist audience in mind. Some of the authors we invite are academics or research scientists, while others are science writers and journalists. We are casting a wide net across areas of human endeavor that are grouped under the aegis of Science. We are interested in the history, philosophy, methodology, and cultures of the various science fields: their triumphs and failures, their controversies, biographies of the people inv