Lauren Branch was my first undergraduate editing assistant on this podcast. She has since gone on to other journalistic endeavors, and opened her own business.
Some of the links are automatically routing through the Wayback Machine where the website and blog are stored. I’m fixing the new ones as I post them, but I hope to go back and get the others this fall.
Original Website Blurb from 2011
Today’s title sounds like the worst Tom Swift novel ever.
Here’s the link to the interactive case study we used to satisfy our RCR training requirements.
The character Lauren calls Jill is
“KIM PARK, a third-year graduate student, who questions the use of her data by another researcher.”
When my group did it, we played
“HARDIK RAO, a postdoctoral researcher, who deals with the competitiveness in an up-and-coming lab while balancing the responsibilities of a home life.”
Choose Your Own Adventure
The CYOA books still exist, plus there’s tons of generic online content written in the same style. Just search for “choose your own adventure.”
http://www.cyoa.com/
The Wave
More interestingly, I pulled up a Wikipedia page on the ABC After School Specials and found a crapload of stuff about “The Wave,” which was based on a real-life demonstration (I don’t know that it was ever replicated, like the more famous Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes experiment has been). The original Special is there, a later documentary, lesson plans. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.thewavehome.com/
Notice, 21 minutes in, how the public competition for the leader’s attention creates a behavioral arms race. Notice how the students watch one another, try to top one another. Every little innovation raises the bar for the others, pushes the average behavior to a more extreme level. These are evolutionary dynamics. Ironically, they’re competing to prove how cooperative they are.
VSI Episode 34