Science and Storytelling | Lucy Hawking | TEDxSalford

Lucy Hawking talks about the importance of using adventurous stories that explain science and creating engagement through dramatic story-telling.
Lucy Hawking is an author and the original creator of the George Greenby books, a series of adventure stories which aim to explain complex science to a young audience through dramatic storytelling. Lucy works with a range of distinguished scientists on the George Greenby series, including her very well-known father, Stephen Hawking. Currently, the George Greenby series is in development with Canadian animation studio Nerd Corps Entertainment to become an animated television series. Lucy studied Modern Languages at Oxford before becoming a journalist. She wrote for newspapers and magazines and then moved into publishing with two comedy novels for adults. While working on the George series, Lucy spent a year as Distinguished Writer in residence at the Origins Project, ASU where she was also Visiting International Scholar at the Institute of Humanities Research.
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[@BarryKort]

"Whereof we cannot express a theory, we must narrate a story instead." ~Umberto Eco

[@shanek7053]

This was fantastic! I don't understand why no one else has seen this!!! Thank you for this!

[@AtiyabZafar]

Exactly

[@GabiImmelman1]

Amazing! We need more this kind of thinking! Exploring science through stories. Cultivating a culture of curious minds that ask "What if?". That's the kind of explorative learning that we are trying to create with Pukka Theatre.

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[@pseudonym5577]

How on earth does this only have 15k views?

[@adrianheffernan102]

O such a beautiful piece, Thank you for sharing Lucy Hawking

[@rcuda7225]

Auspicious. she is a great teacher Such an Entertaining Way to enthrall people with science and physics If anyone in this family the Hawkins family has to do research to write the book I must say I believe it would be an incredible read It's could be that string that connects fiction to non fiction

[@blindfoldchess1839]

This was amazing!

[@GinaIsar]

Excellent and inspiring talk!

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Brilliant talk.

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Mesmerising talk!! Awesome!!

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There is a bridge between science and English, math and stories etc. that is highly underused. These topics are all correlated and not separate isolated concepts. How do you think we should fix the educational system/better educate ourselves?

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That was a complex question for a different time, but don't worry, it's already slowly happening in academia

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Wonderful!

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Why more people haven't seen this is beyond me, it is incredible and should be viewed by all.

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This video is so underrated smh.

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Good video.

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14/3/2018.

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Very beautiful like

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Lucy

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I think my generation and the generation after me will not bring a single accomplishment that will help humanity. I am hoping my kids of 7 and 8 generation will. It’s our jobs as parents to start teaching our kids the arts of science. Because it’s our Children generation that might change our trajectory for the benefit of our world!!!!

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I'd tell the boy, if you fell in there you'd be lost!

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For the algorithm

[@animagreed]

She looks like Anthony Hopkins with more hair.

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😤

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16 minute waste of time 😏