By AFPMore by this AuthorBy day, Kasha Patel works at NASA writing content for its website, but she spends her nights communicating scientific discovery through an altogether different medium: stand-up comedy. Whereas scientists are just like, what's the deal with rising CO2 levels? "So I found that my science jokes do 40 percent better than my other jokes," she said, adding she was working on an algorithm to automate the analysis. This makes it all the more important to find new ways to reach out to the public, particularly in areas that have become controversial such as climate science, argues Odell. "It's great for scientists to get out there and talk about the research because they are the expert on the research," she said, even if not everyone can do so through jokes or comedy routines.

Source: Daily Nation November 12, 2019 17:07 UTC