A new study explores what makes a science story engaging. The researchers found vivid imagery and details about character motivations and emotions don’t have a significant effect, but reader perceptions of story quality and emotional transportation do.

There a few Discworld books interwoven with real science text books. Always found that concept cool and as usual for Discworld it was a fun story.

It almost impressive modern school system manages to make science and history boring and so DEEPLY wrong for how most people naturally learn.

As a scientist who struggles with scicomm, this article hits the nail on the head.

The biggest mistake we make in the lab is assuming that what fascinates us (the heavy data, the niche methodology) is what will fascinate the public. It’s not.

For peers, engagement is driven by novelty and rigor. For the general public, it’s driven by relevance and emotion—’How does this affect my life or my worldview?’ If you don’t change your lens based on your reader, you’re not communicating; you’re just talking to a mirror.