Making Sense of Media Madness SkepTalk: Berkeley

Dr. Kirsten "Kiki" Sanford, producer and host of This Week in Science

The news is full of dire predictions for our future: peak oil, peak food, over-population, climate change, disease pandemics, and more. To top it off, social media connects us to an overwhelming number of opinions on these subjects. How do we know which sources to trust? How can we best inform ourselves? And, how do we balance science and self-interest as we prepare for an uncertain future?

Dr. Kiki Sanford has a PhD in neurophysiology, and she loves bird brains. She left the lab to focus on science communication, hosting and producing many science-based programs for the web and TV, including Brink on the Science Channel, Dr. Kiki's Science Hour on TWiT.tv, Pop Siren on Revision3, and Food Science. She is currently the host and producer of This Week in Science (TWIS), and looking for her next amazing project.

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