tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929150461646356892.post3794437967875778680..comments2024-02-16T14:53:20.404+00:00Comments on The Spectacular Science Blog: Fighting an Infection Biology Undergraduate 1tutorphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5929150461646356892.post-32288241695710663802011-08-04T00:17:54.613+01:002011-08-04T00:17:54.613+01:00"Also, I enjoy the idea of having this contra..."Also, I enjoy the idea of having this contrast of rhythm to depict a neutral attitude towards life at this scale. Imagine you were looking at some fish in an aquarium. Everything moves slowly and quietly until those fish start tearing up some prey and you realize they were actually piranha. This is almost how I want the immune system to feel, quiet and giant, then precise and deadly, but never evil and never good."<br /><br />Yes! Absolutely; after all, your audience is undergraduate so 'goodies and baddies' (for a biology student) is largely irrelevant; they'll be interested in the process and won't need you to engage them with it through metaphor, because, having chosen the subject to study at degree level, they are already 'on task' and don't need to be converted. They will appreciate, however, a measured, intelligent explication - and your understanding of that, as attested to by this write up - is very reassuring. The idea of the HUD - cool, restrained, unmoved - could work to further 'distance' the audience (in the best sense) - an unemotional eye recording, archiving and annotating. I look forward to what comes next, Pol.tutorphilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11842833126210822641noreply@blogger.com