- #202) Chat GPT is a Gift to the ABT Framework
- #201) Using the right tool: A “HOWEVER HAMMER” for diplomacy, a “BUT BOMB” for the masses
- #200) 2023 is the Tipping Point Year for the ABT Framework
- #199) Al Gore’s “Wrong Problem” 16 Years Later: Wants vs Needs
- #198) Crowdsourcing Our Knowledge of “HOW TO TEACH THE ABT”
- #197) Two Examples of how the ABT is for EVERYBODY
- #196) The 4 ABT Long Haulers: Palermo, Howell, Padilla, Knowlton
- #195) 25 AND UP: 2 Years, 25 Rounds, 750 Graduates, time for the next phase of the ABT Agenda!
- #194) Dr. Michael Osterholm, guest today on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast: A Quick Guide to the Discussion
- #193) Elegant vs Clumsy: Why Climate Communication Fails
- #192) Narrative Analysis of “Seaspiracy” Ocean Documentary: A Guide to Our Podcast Episode
- #191) The ABT Framework Course Turns One Year Old…
- #191) The New Yorker Needs a Dobzhansky Checker
- #190) VIEWING ADVICE for the NARRATIVE BLITZ: It’s not a Symposium, it’s a FILM
- #189) The ABT Framework Course to Complete Round 11
- #188) THE DOBZHANSKY DANCE: Somebody smart is writing speeches for Biden
- #187) Three HBO Veterans appear in the ABT Framework Course: View their Sessions
- #186) The Banality of Evil: Stephen Miller has Lousy Narrative Intuition
- #185) BIDEN: The Amorphous Narrative vs the SINGULAR Narrative
- #184) Business Meets Science: What Scientists Writing Proposals Can Learn from the Business World
- #183) Go with the Flo: A Great Discussion of Improv Acting with Two Major Improv Veterans
- #182) Climate “Contrarian” Marc Morano, 13 years later: Winning?
- #181) WORKING CIRCLES: How Story Circles Graduates Can Keep in Shape
- #180) ABT FRAMEWORK COURSE, ROUND TWO: The Course So Nice, We’re Running It Twice!
- #179) It’s Time for The ABT Framework “Course”
- #178) Play Along at Home: Our Story Circles Demo Session
- #177) What the Democratic Party Lost with Al Franken: Narrative Intuition
- #176) MICHAEL CRICHTON: The Lost Opportunity
- #175) Fighting Obfuscation: Communicating About Science Communication, but with Poor Narrative Structure
- #174) Nicholas Cage and “Robert McKee” explore the AAA versus ABT divide
- #173) BUILDING A BETTER ABT: A 14 Minute “ABT Build Session” from my San Diego Keynote
- #172) Fall 2019 Story Circles Schedule
- #171) 4 COMEDIANS: THE Most Interesting/Important Discussion of Communication I’ve Ever Heard
- #170) Climate Communication Imbalance: The term that’s needed is “Narrative Equivalence” (not “false equivlance”)
- #169) Neil Degrasse Tyson Demonstrates that Science Actually Can’t Solve All the Problems of the World
- #168) Three Sequential ABT’s for a One Minute Presentation
- #167) Our Story Circles Conference Call with National Park Service
- #166) Defining “Story” versus “Narrative”
- #165) Science Doesn’t Need “A Story”: It needs an understanding of narrative
- #164) Beto’s Problem: No narrative depth (get a new speech writer)
- #163) The Story Circles Core Principle: “Stop thinking and DO THE WORK!”
- #162) John Oliver on Shaming: He Cites, “Agreement, Contradiction, Consequence” (= ABT)
- #161) Trump Went Off-Script at CPAC and (Predictably) Scored a Narrative Index of 36
- #160) AOC Does Something Democrats Aren’t Good At: “Advancing the Narrative”
- #159) This is how the CONVERSATIONAL ABT works and why it’s important
- #158) Trump’s Embattled Rose Garden Speech vs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (His Narrative Match)
- #157) 3 Gradients in Narrative Training: One Size Does Not Fit All
- #156) STORY CIRCLES: We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
- #155) “Trump’s But”: Still in fine form
- #154) Story Circles Testimonial: “I began to see narrative structure everywhere …”
- #153) Our challenging “Shaping the Narrative of Invasive Insect Species” work session in Vancouver at the Entomological Society of America Meeting
- #152) Story Circles Celebrates 50 Circles!
- #151) Not Even DHY: Is this really “science education”?
- #150) Story Circles is NOT Competitive (it’s Complementary)
- #149) TEMPERAMENT: Democrat Senators had the One Word, but Missed the Narrative Boat
- #148) POLITICS: “The THEREFORE Test” for Campaign Slogans
- #147) Had I Coached the Democratic Senators Yesterday …
- #146) Desperate Times Call for Desperate Narrative Structure, on the Front Page of the NY Times
- #145) Trump Still Knows Narrative: 5 Recommendations to Democrats
- #144) “Buried Pearls”: 43 years later, why is OBFUSCATION still the central problem of science communication?
- #143) My Fall Schedule
- #142) Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee Gives Another ABT Tour De Force
- #141) Top 5 Benefits from Story Circles Narrative Training
- #140) The MJ Hegar Political Video: Democrats Like Non-Narrative Structure
- #139) Power of the Singular Narrative: Ornithologist Filardi Pays the Price
- #138) AUDIO: A Great Discussion of Story Circles Narrative Training with Government Agencies
- #137) Bernie Sanders Makes Clear Why the Democrats are Doomed
- #136) Complexity Kills: How to Over-Complicate the Teaching of Story
- #135) The Colorado National Park Service Story Circles Video
- #134) A Glimpse into Story Circles
- #133) A Major Milestone: The Completion of 6 Story Circles at the National Park Service is the Start of “Narrative Culture”
- #132) Michelle Wolf’s Narrative Index was a Stunning 47
- #131) Our California Climate Adaptation Podcast Special with UCLA: “A Freight Train of Pain” is Coming
- #130) The ABT/Narrative Fingerprint of the United States
- #129) President Trump Shows How the Narrative Index Works
- #128) How the Kids in Florida are like The March for Science
- #127) THE NARRATIVE METRICS GAME: How Will Trump’s State of the Union Score?
- #126) The Dangerous Depth of Trump’s Narrative Strength
- #125) Oprah Gives an ABT Tour De Force
- #124) 2018: Year of the Story Circle
- #123) A Case Study of Poor Science Communication: R. Alexander Pyron’s Cuckoo Washington Post Extinction Editorial
- #122) Tough News for Science Education: Communication Training for Grad Students not the Same as for Research Scientists
- #121) Democrats: When will they ever learn (to MESSAGE)
- Protected: #121) Tom Steyer And Narrative
- #120) Do One Day Storytelling Workshops Work? No
- #119) “Teaching for Intellect” Vs. “Training for Intuition”
- #118) Eminem Shows Why Climate Communication Is So Limp
- #117) How Story Circles Narrative Training Works: Details from a Graduate
- #116) Bill Maher’s Writers Know Narrative
- #115) PODCAST: The Future is Intellectual, the Past is Experiential/Emotive
- 114) ABT CLINCHER: 1 Billion “Call Me Maybe” Fans Can’t Be Wrong
- #113) Hollywood vs. Journalism: A Reply to Dan Fagin and “hyper-reductionism”
- #112) Berkeley: Another Great USDA Demo Day
- #111) Trump Continues to Know Narrative: He relishes being laughed at
- #110) Banning Trump from Twitter: Valarie Plame Advances a Great Narrative
- #109) Good Stories are Rare
- #108) President Trump Demonstrates Storytelling Rule #1: The power of specifics, and the power of non-specifics
- #107) STORY CIRCLES NARRATIVE TRAINING: Ready for Universities
- #106) “Inconvenient Truth” Sequel: We needed Empire Strikes Back, but we got Clone Wars.
- #105) Professionals at Work: Narrative analysis of the HBO Real Sports Segment on the Great Barrier Reef
- #104) “Dunkirk”: Introducing “The Get to the Point Rule”
- 103) Democrats, Messaging and Monty Python
- #102) Winner of “The Moth” Storytelling Competition Gives Textbook Demonstration of the ABT Dynamic
- #101) How Twitter fuels our increasingly mediocre narrative-driven world
- #100) The Atlantic demonstrates the ABT
- #99) The Great Barrier Reef: If only “most people” were thoughtful
- #98) Want to communicate effectively? Hire a comic writer (not a professor)
- #97) Bill Maher Got the “Arouse & Fulfill” Elements Backwards
- #96) John Kerry Doesn’t Listen So Good
- #95) Trump: Climate Hero of All Time?
- #94) BREAKING: World Bank Leader Demoted Over ABT Politics
- #93) SCALING UP: National Park Service Launches 6 Story Circles in Colorado
- #92) Dave Chappelle Shows How Narrative Works
- #91) The Earth Optimism Summit: Demonstrating the Power of Narrative (unlike the Marches)
- #90) The “No Leadership In Science” March
- #89) Melania Trump Scores a Narrative Zero
- #88) Michael Crichton’s 1999 Prescient, Unheeded Advice to the Science World
- #87) THEREFORE… Earth Optimism
- #86) The Oscars Fiasco Shows You What a Story Is (and is not)
- #85) Come Watch Us Make TROUBLE at South By Southwest March 9 and 14 in Austin!
- #84) The Ikea Version of the ABT
- #83) Is this Really How to Communicate Science “Effectively”?
- #82) Podcast Triple Play
- #81) JAMES CARVILLE: The Embodiment of Narrative Intuition
- #80) Trump Inauguration Speech: My Narrative Analysis
- #79) Let’s Listen to the First Paragraph of Trump’s Inauguration Speech
- #78) PLOS “Narrativity” Paper: Don’t be such a scientist
- #77) National Park Service Uses ABT for a new Climate Change Strategy Report
- #76) Not a Laughing Matter: Twitter is Non-narrative
- #75) 2017: The Year of the ABT
- #74) Fact vs. Story: The Narrative World of Today
- #73) The ABT Analysis of Mike Mann’s Washington Post Climate Editorial: Where’s the THEREFORE?
- #72) “Lalaland” is a Wonderful ABT Tour de Force!
- #71) The Rotten Communication Skills of the Coral Reef Community
- #70) MILESTONE: Story Circle #15, Demo Day #12
- #69) Bob Dylan uses the ABT
- #68) Ten Innocent Questions, Ten Obnoxious Answers from an ABT Fanatic
- #67) Trump, Mars Attacks and the ABT
- #66) Film School, Simplicity and Narrative Intuition
- #65) The Dangers of “The Singular Narrative” Versus “The Single Narrative”
- #64) The Narrative Index: Looks like Trump Wrote his Own Rotten Al Smith Speech
- #63) CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION: Our Changing Climate is NOT the “Ordinary World”
- #62) NY Times: Hacked Emails Reveal Hillary’s Narratively-Challenged Campaign Staff
- #61) Lester Holt’s Marginal Performance as Moderator is Revealed by his Narrative Index Score of 17
- #60) “Null Narratives”: Trump and the Murder Rate
- #59) PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 1: Five Narrative Criteria to Watch For
- #58) Aaron Sorkin’s “But, Except, Then” (BET) triad: It’s the DHY for the Narratively Intense World of TV
- #57) JOIN US: I’m Doing a Reddit AMA on the ABT, Next Thursday, Sept 8, 10:00 – 1:00 PDT
- #56) NARRATIVE SELECTION: The New York Times Likes “Big Buts”
- #55) Will Trump’s Narrative Index Rebound?
- #54) Daniel Slotnik: You owe Thom Steinbeck an apology for your obituary of him in the NY Times
- #53) John Oliver and EPIC 2014
- #52) The Story Circles Fall Tour
- #51) Warning: Story Circles is not for the Instant Gratification Crowd
- #50) Has Apple lost the “Simplicity” mantra of Steve Jobs?
- # 49) Democrats are the Worst Communicators Ever
- #48) Channeling the Spirit of Bob Paine
- # 47) Story Analysis Exercise: This is How Excellent Storytelling Works
- # 46) Josh Fox: “Scattershot” Means You Are Harming the Planet With Your Boring Movies
- #44) STORY CIRCLES Goes Wide
- #43) Bob Paine: The Best Storytelling Scientist I’ve Ever Known
- #42) A Global Tragedy: The “Great Berry Reef” is Rotting
- #41) The Power of Blind Enthusiasm: What Highly Educated People Don’t Understand
- #40) Oxytocin: John Oliver & Ed Yong versus “The Love Doctor” Paul Zak
- #39) Trump Knows Narrative
- #38) Jimmy Kimmel helps “Climate Hustle”
- #37) Good Intentions Count for Little In Filmmaking
- #36) Genentech: The Cutting Edge
- #35) Neil Degrasse Tyson Versus Abe Lincoln: Nope
- # 34) ABT on Front Page of NY Times, Again
- # 33) ABT on the Front Page of the NY Times
- # 32) The “Secret” the TED Folks Don’t Know: The ABT (of course)
- # 31) Bill Mckibben has Narrative Intuition
- # 30) Chris Palmer’s “Top 5 Environmental Movies”
- # 29) Michael Crichton had deep “narrative intuition” (duh)
- # 28) The ABT is everywhere, except for classrooms
- # 27) ADVENTURES IN ABT-LAND: Story Circles Demo Day in Ft. Collins
- # 26) Republican Debates Go To Trump
- # 25) THE NARRATIVE INDEX 3: Trump Knows Narrative
- # 24) THE NARRATIVE INDEX 2: The Baseline
- #23) THE NARRATIVE INDEX 1: A New Communications Tool
- #22) Hillary is Too Much of a Scientist
- #21) “Our yearning for certainty”: The Narrative Dynamic of True Crime TV
- #20) Hillary Does Not Have A Narrative
- #19) It’s the Problems, Dummy
- #18) Trump Language Analysis: Analysts Bringing AAA’s to an ABT Fight
- #17) Yet another ABT Speech: MLK’s “I Have A Dream”
- #16) FOR STUDENTS OF THE ABT: The delicate power of the ABT words
- #15) Fun with Climate in Paris?
- #14) “The Big Short” is an Excellent Educational Film
- #13) Great Article in the New Yorker on the B.S. Nature of Polling
- #12) Fallout 4: A Victim of DHY
- #11) Story Circles Goes Operational at USDA/ARS
- #10) SHRINKING THE RIVER OF STORY
- #9) Operation ABT: The War on Boredom
- #8) The Nature Review
- #7) The IPCC Needs the ABT Framework (#ABTFramework)
- #6) The Union of Concerned Scientist’s Review of “Houston”
- #5) The ABT Walk of Life
- #4) #ABTframework: The new home base for ABT learning
- #3) Acquiring Narrative Intuition Painlessly: The ABT Dice
- #2) My “Business of Story” Podcast
- #1) “Science Needs Story” Begins!