Jatropha Math?
Science Serves The People When Media Create
Critical Mass Content, Not Discontent
Among what I call climate change crops, jatropha is a strange species in science. Among the paths to take on the road to creative writing, math is a strange device. Stranger than fiction? In truth, that’s what I’d like to invite you to find out. (I’m no stranger to fiction myself.) What about the mass media? In the Philippines, judging from their performances in many an attempted coup, I think the mass media know about critical mass; what they have to learn is creative content and to differentiate it from creative contentiousness, which like jatropha can be beautiful and contain its own poison.
Nonfiction: Since I can’t find a textbook or manual or guidebook on how to translate the language of scientists into the language of the marketplace, since I don’t know of any course on how to write on R&D for non-R&D people, I have decided to write the book on how to popularize science, starting with generating creative ideas from out of the blue (for a good idea of brainstorming as it occurs in my mind, you may want to visit my blogsite on what I call stream-of-unconsciousness ‘CommuniCats’).
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December 3rd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
[...] Nonfiction: Since I can’t find a textbook or manual or guidebook on how to translate the language of scientists into the language of the marketplace, since I don’t know of any course on how to write on R&D for non-R&D people, I have decided to write the book on how to popularize science, starting with generating creative ideas from out of the blue (for a good idea of brainstorming as it occurs, you may want to visit my stream-of-unconsciousness ‘CommuniCats’). The full essay [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
[...] in relation to Rizal’s Christ, when Rizal was merely drifting from Catholicism to Protestantism. Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
[...] The rebels walked to the Manila Peninsula in a drizzle even as they called on the people to join them in their revolt. I would have imagined that the cooler heads would prevail. Were they sleepwalking? The renegades braved the rain of water; at the hotel, they could not brave the rain of bullets that came after they commandeered the hotel, refused to surrender while they enjoyed world-class accommodations, when elite government troops sprayed tear gas grenades and automatic fire Click here to read the essay [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
[...] Samuel Beckett won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and changed the universe of the literate with his book Waiting for Godot, that which is centered around two men, Estragon and Vladimir, who keep a vigil for Godot, who never gets there, the road to nowhere. By refusing to abide by the Kyoto Protocol, refusing to acknowledge climate change, is the US waiting for Godot? ¶ Alternative questions: Is the US waiting for Al Gore? On February this year, I wrote about The Yankee Dawdle on global warming (americanchronicle.com): Is the US literate? ¶ Jak Peake writes (hewett.norfolk.sch.uk) that Waiting for Godot is about existentialism. Click here to read the full essay [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
[...] frank’s stream-of-unconsciousness intruding. it’s a book in writing. more than that, it’s a book writing itself. that’s what it is. and i’m writing how it went very early this morning. what prompted it, i don’t remember. i have chosen this theme design called ‘chaos theory’ by wordpress. perfect! this is all about chaos, my theory & practice of creative writing is chaos. i’m writing straight on the ‘manage posts’ page of wordpress free, not microsoft word first and copy into the website. at this point in time (0817 hr thursday november 29 manila), it looks like i’m trying my own version of james joyce’s version of stream-of-consciousness, which robin owens tells me Click here to read the full essay [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[...] Poor Team ICRISAT! The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics is exulting, celebrating its 35th anniversary this week, November 21-24, with the knowledge that it has been rated O (Outstanding) by the World Bank. Excellent, I say. Now I shall expect more. ¶ I? I am the poor; while my needs are few, my number is legion. Let science go figure that one. ¶ This is typical science considering the needs of the poor: The FAO Newsroom mentions insufficiencies in the following Click here to read the full essay [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] (I say also, any month is good – it’s not in the month; rather, it’s in the attitude.) Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] and how those characteristics have such a bad press, relative to hope and inadequacy’ Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
[...] brilliant billiards last hope, Roberto ‘Superman’ Gomez of Zamboanga City. Last time I looked, Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
[...] Asia. This pioneer did the Filipinos proud. There are times when the Filipino is very, very good. Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
[...] it is necessarily the story of the Father of the Church, Msgr Ciriaco A Sevilla Jr, or Fr Akong Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
[...] time to what he was going to learn yet. You gloss over his learning process. He was born a genius; Click here to read the full [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
[...] curses, not cures. And for a very practical reason too: It’s easier to curse than to cure. Click here to read the full [...]
January 11th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
[...] post info By frankahilario Categories: Quote Unquote Selections from my Franciscan essays (hover cursor over link or click for full article) ‘Science Serves The People When Media Create Critical Mass Content, Not Discontent’ [...]
March 6th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
[...] applying what I learned from Rudolf Flesch, that is, readability and ‘creative math’ (see ‘Jatropha Math,’ frankahilario.com), and from Edward de Bono, that is, lateral thinking (see ‘To All The [...]
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
[...] applying what I learned from Rudolf Flesch, that is, readability and ‘creative math’ (see ‘Jatropha Math,’ frankahilario.com), and from Edward de Bono, that is, lateral thinking (see ‘To All The [...]