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The following is a guest post by Richard Kern, a film maker, lecturer, and co-founder of Odyssey Earth . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am not a scientist. I like to say I’m a student of life, a naturalist in training. Yet somehow I’ve fallen into a profession where science is the pivot-point of everything I do. Interesting career path for someone who took 8 credits of Shakespeare in college. So what, really, was the point of getting a degree in something called “Literary and Cultural Studies?!” Wildlife filmmaking is a craft in which the left and right hemispheres of the brain are constantly colliding. The trick is figuring out how two different modalities of thought can blend together harmoniously. Easier said than done, but when you can make that happen you’re on your way to effective science communication. Lucky for me, I was raised by a mother and father who both earned degr...