In the inaugural episode of CLEAR + VIVID, a new live web show to launch on Friday, September 16 at Noon Eastern, Alan Alda, actor, writer and science communication pioneer will interview Amy Cuddy, a Harvard professor, social psychologist, TED speaker and best-selling author of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.
CLEAR + VIVID, planned to air four times each year, will feature conversations between Alda and guests with varied views and specialties in communicating science. Thanks to a partnership with Heleo, viewers from around the globe will have an opportunity to ask questions live via Twitter and Facebook using the tag #clearvivid.
“I spent years of interviewing scientists from pretty much every discipline on the PBS show Scientific American Frontiers,” says Alda. “Now it’s going to be fascinating on our web series CLEAR + VIVID to talk with knowledgeable people about the one discipline that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as it should – the difficult, but crucial, art of the communication of science. This is really going to be fun.”
Cuddy comments, “I am thrilled and honored to be delving into an issue I’m so passionate about, communicating science, with one of my greatest heroes, Alan Alda – a trailblazing champion of both science and communication. I’m still pinching myself.”
“I’m really looking forward to a live interview with Amy Cuddy,” echoes Alda. “She’s studied (and practiced!) the most basic, indispensable, elements of good communication. She understands the science of it and has mastered the practice of it. It should be a terrific conversation.”
CLEAR + VIVID is available via live stream on the newly-launched Alda-Kavli Learning Center, a beta website developed by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University and The Kavli Foundation to enhance public understanding of and engagement with science and medicine. Future episodes and special guests will be announced. In addition to CLEAR + VIVID, the Learning Center will feature the latest in science communication articles and research, as well as training events and opportunities for scientists and medical professionals to practice their communication skills. Learn more at www.AldaKavliLearningCenter.org.