{"id":9633,"date":"2020-02-12T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9633"},"modified":"2020-02-21T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:02:31","slug":"public-perception-of-science-with-dr-adam-ruben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2020\/02\/12\/public-perception-of-science-with-dr-adam-ruben\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Perception of Science with Dr. Adam Ruben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Science was pleased to welcome <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/adamruben.net\/about\/\">Dr. Adam Ruben<\/a><\/strong>, Comedian, Writer, TV Host and yes, Molecular Biologist, as part of the UFV Science Dean&#8217;s Seminar Series on February 11, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9637 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Ruben.2.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>His informative yet humorous talk focused on controversies over experiments and research findings which affects the way the public views science and scientists.\u00a0He used <a href=\"https:\/\/dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk\/facts\/the-life-of-dolly\/index.html\">Dolly the Sheep<\/a> as a lens to describe failures and successes of science perception. He discussed the classic \u201cmad scientist\u201d example and how we can use open communication to teach our children that scientists do not all fit the stereotypical insane, white-haired, balding chemist holding an Erlenmeyer flask of bubbling green fluid.<\/p>\n<p>Following his presentation he took time to visit with the audience, answer questions and sign a few books!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed his talk or would like to see it again it is now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/video.ufv.ca\/\">UFV&#8217;s MediaSpace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/video.ufv.ca\/media\/Faculty+of+Science+Dean%27s+Seminar+Series+-+Adam+Ruben\/0_6zbr2dkw\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9640 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing-1024x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing-1536x904.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/Book-Signing.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9639\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9639 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11-1024x947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11-1024x947.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11-768x710.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2020\/02\/UFV.Visit_.2020.02.11.jpg 1301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Adam Ruben and Dr. Lucy Lee, Dean of the Faculty of Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read more about Adam on his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/adamruben.net\">http:\/\/adamruben.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ufv.ca\/science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4797 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2016\/11\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Science was pleased to welcome Dr. Adam Ruben, Comedian, Writer, TV Host and yes, Molecular Biologist, as part of the UFV Science Dean&#8217;s Seminar Series on February 11, 2020. His informative yet humorous talk focused on controversies over experiments and research findings which affects the way the public views science and scientists.\u00a0He &#8230; <a title=\"Public Perception of Science with Dr. Adam Ruben\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2020\/02\/12\/public-perception-of-science-with-dr-adam-ruben\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":9634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,20,5,58,9,6,1],"tags":[301,39,313],"class_list":["post-9633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-engineering","category-mathstats","category-news","category-physical-geography","category-physics","category-uncategorized","tag-deans-seminar-series","tag-guest-speaker","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9633"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9633\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}