Comments on: KC and USC

By: I See Book People | Cosmic Variance

I See Book People | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:01:44 +0000

[...] Well, it was a splendid party on the terrace. I won’t go into the details since I’m very tired and you’re probably not that interested anyway. I met a huge number of interesting people. I was there mostly through LA Times connections (via K. C. Cole and Jonathan Kirsch) and so I met an awful lot of excellent columnists, critics and editors. There were soem other USC people there as well such as Annenberg School of Communication people, and Barry Glassner, our Executive Vice-Provost, who’s also a noted sociologist and author (see his “The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things”, for example). But I also met a lot of authors (some already mentioned), publishers and agents. [...]

By: Lost In Translation | Cosmic Variance

Lost In Translation | Cosmic Variance — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:30:10 +0000

[...] It was by the science writer (and now USC professor) KC Cole, and the title was “Lost in Translation: Writing about Science for the General Public”. Excellent title. Very very interesting topic, don’t you think, given all that we’ve discussed here and all that I have been known to rant (a bit) about here on the issue. [...]

By: KC on Proof and Belief | Cosmic Variance

KC on Proof and Belief | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:21:51 +0000

[...] Hmmm, so it seems that I keep running into my colleague KC Cole this week. While settling down to drink my morning coffee after a couple of hours of battling dust around the house and leaves outside the house, I found myself looking at the LA Times’ Book Review section, and saw that KC wrote a review of the book entitled “What We Believe but Cannot Prove”, edited by John Brockman. The subtitle of the book is “Today’s leading thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty”. [...]

By: KC on Mathematics and Strings | Cosmic Variance

KC on Mathematics and Strings | Cosmic Variance — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:42:26 +0000

[...] I had a sinful lunch of coffee and delicate french pastries with the science writer KC Cole yesterday, at the excellent French patisserie Boule, over in West Hollywood. [...]

By: KC on KPCC | Cosmic Variance

KC on KPCC | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:30:54 +0000

[...] So two mornings ago while ironing a shirt, to my surprise I heard a familiar voice coming from the radio. It was my friend and colleague KC Cole, doing one of her commentaries on science and society. This one was entitled “The Evolution Evidence”, and she talks about scientific evidence …. “How do we know what we know?”. She talks about evidence in everyday experience, and then extrapolates to evolution, the Big Bang, etc. Very well done. [...]

By: Three Proposals of Marriage | Cosmic Variance

Three Proposals of Marriage | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:56:21 +0000

[...] So I tapped into my Network of Good People….. beat the drums a bit….brainstormed. (Hard, because I was in the middle of writing a paper at the time, but sleep, who needs it?) So I called Oliver, and we talked. I called my good friend and new colleague journalist/writer K.C. Cole, and we talked. I called my good friend, rising filmmaker Jules DiBiase, with whom I’ve previously worked on a screenplay and who shares my passion for portraying good science and real scientists on TV and Film (by the way, there’s an excellent TV pilot begging to be produced! Anyone brave enough to take on the challenge to do it and keep the science true? email me!)… and we talked. [...]

By: Plato

Plato — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:05:53 +0000

I hope my defintion of objectivity doesn’t sound like a sound bite, Mark?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:58:06 +0000

Great news on all fronts. I’m a big fan. KC is at the very top of her field - someone who knows how to write about science and who, when you talk to her, you can tell has a real thirst to get her mind around the issues, and who isn’t looking for a sound bite to take the place of a complicated story. Congratulations to KC and to USC.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:10:32 +0000

But even better…. fantastic news for journalism in general. If she can get that next generation of writers (and ultimately editors) to learn to avoid those myriad pitfalls that seem to result in the sort of dreadful coverage of science that we’ve discussed on this blog a lot…..that would be huge! I can think of few people as well suited to tackle this job. (No pressure KC…but we’re hopeful!).

-cvj

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:58:15 +0000

This is really fantastic news for USC!