I've been thinking for ages that what we should do next with Interesting is Interesting Science; something that takes the goodness of the format and finds a way to inspire people about science, maybe, ideally, children-type people.
And then, this evening, I heard two bits of Radio Lab that really, really made me want to do that. The first is an interview / chat with Brian Greene about Big Physics, which delivers great big old-fashioned science-fictional sense o' wonder about real science fact. Robert Krulwich, the interviewer, does a fantastic job at drawing out great story-telling about incredibly complex stuff. The MP3 is here.
And then, the next thing up in the podcast stream was Krulwich's commencement address at Caltech, which is a brilliant exhortation to scientists to engage with the world through telling stories about what they do. About not ceding societal influence to people who are better at narrative but less good at, well, science. The MP3 for this is here. Really good stuff.
Must do something about Interesting Science.