https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/05/13/egg-a-place-for-science-stories-to-nest/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 13 May 2015 17:46:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/05/13/egg-a-place-for-science-stories-to-nest/#comment-117200 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:05:14 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=7037#comment-117200 Sophie, I love the hand-drawn feel, and the idea that eggs are simple, approachable and highly accessible. I think your Markov Chain story does an excellent job of showing us how simple and informative this form of storytelling can be. I’m interested in your decision to link to the BBC and NYTimes – is the vision that eggs are simply short, sweet science stories with strong visuals? Or are they all going to be stories like the Markov story? I also think we’d benefit from some thinking about how users who don’t have your graphical skills can build this sort of story – is there a stick figure construction kit, perhaps, ala XKCD? Or is the hope to push people to publish sketches, even if they’re quite primitive? I need a clearer sense of what decisions are products of this being a prototype and which are conscious design decisions. I do like the core concept and hope you’ll follow up on it.

]]> https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/05/13/egg-a-place-for-science-stories-to-nest/#comment-113594 Wed, 13 May 2015 17:46:18 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=7037#comment-113594 Cool idea!

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