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Interview with Dr Tony Lelliott

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At long last, the third season of the Urban Astronomer Podcast has kicked off! We thought the last season went so well that we’ve decided to keep things much as they are, with perhaps the occasional news segment added in whenever something interesting has happened. So for the most part, that means twelve episodes, alternating between interviews with people who have some sort of a connection to South African astronomy, and science explainy bits where I answer the questions that listeners like you have emailed to me at [email protected]

Tony Lelliott

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But this episode is all about the Interview with Dr Lelliott. Tony is an Honorary Assoc. Professor at Wits University. He has spent much of his career researching science communication, and has a special interest in astronomy, and human evolution. You can follow him on twitter at @drtoeknee

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About Allen Versfeld

Allen is an amateur astronomer, an IT professional, a podcaster, a father of five beautiful kids, a barely competent chess player, and the owner and publisher of the Urban Astronomer podcast and website. He has formerly served as Director of the Astrophotography and Citizen Science sections of the Astronomical Society of South Africa. You can find his personal social media feed on Mastodon!

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Interview with Dr Tony Lelliott — 1 Comment

  1. In a democracy it is important that citizens are able to make informed decisions based on their knowledge of the topic. How do you persuade people to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions if they have no understanding of energy flows or the structure of the atmosphere. Not everyone needs to be a climate scientist but citizens need a basic level of scientific literacy to be able to participate as citizens.
    Following from this citizens need to know enough to able to critically evaluate the quality of information they consume. The gateway drugs here could be something as basic as the shape of the earth, wether NASA sent astronauts to the moon or can 5G spread Covid-19. Without a basic understanding of how science works, everything we teach in schools is totally wasted when people are susceptible to weaponised disinformation.
    That is why science education is important. Oh, and it may make us less reliant of the importation of foreign skills if we actually learnt how to run our own infrastructure.

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