Charles Basenga Kiyanda

Dissecting Scientific Communication

I’m trying to do this in a kind of scientific manner, writing my thoughts in a logical manner, formulating questions and actually trying to find answers. First, I need to mention that, for the purposes of this discussion, scientific communication is both communication between scientists as well as the dialogue between scientists and “lay-people” or […]

A preview from the music world

A great post from the blog New Music strategies about a new music service, Kompoz. This system is about enabling musicians to collaborate online to record songs. Read that post, and you’ll get an idea about where I’m going with this “science is broken” thing. All that’s being done on that site doesn’t entirely […]

Science is broken (the introduction)

This is the first post in a (hopefully not so) long series of posts on the subject of communication in science. Let me clarify the object of this series right away. The title is a bit provocative and I chose it because it’s catchy and simple. I don’t believe science is done badly. I believe […]