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Judith Bunting asked: “...what, day to day, motivates the individuals in the community of communicators - educators, journalists and PR folks alike? Is it a practical desire to improve lives through better understanding of the world around them? An intellectual desire to save mankind from collective ignorance? A straightforward matter of doing daily tasks well (and getting paid for them) or, maybe, a political quest to promote social advancement and entrepreneurship?” I’d also love to see this explored here. To hell with cool scientific objectivity. Surely a communicator’s personal feelings and motivation are significant? Promoting public engagement with science through a contagious delight in phenomena * <mailto:ian%40interactives.co.uk> [log in to unmask] * <http://www.interactives.co.uk> http://www.interactives.co.uk * <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-russell/0/636/305> http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-russell/0/636/305 * Give people facts and you feed their minds for an hour. Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime. * Ian Russell ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************