Talking up Olivia Judson (an English evolutionary biologist who has the trick of getting the general public excited about biology), her post on why grasses are so important in particular, and, for some reason bird’s teeth (they wanted to slip in somewhere).
It’s important to not only be able to do breakthrough scientific research, but also turn around and communicate those results to a broader audience who probably isn’t nearly as intrinsically fascinated with your area of research as you are after spending years of your life studying nothing else. Apropos of George Chuck giving a GREAT talk here about the role of microRNAs in regulating phase change in corn (think plant puberty).
