People Without Science
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People Without Science
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Author : Marcelino Cereijido
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
People Without Science written by Marcelino Cereijido and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
A People S History Of Science
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Author : Clifford D Conner
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-24
A People S History Of Science written by Clifford D Conner and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-24 with Science categories.
We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the massive foundation created by the rest of us.
The World Without Us
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Author : Alan Weisman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Science categories.
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and our myriad plastics? And what would our final legacy be? Speaking to experts in fields as diverse as oil production and ecology, and visiting the places that have escaped recent human activity to discover how they have adapted to life without us, Alan Weisman paints an intriguing picture of the future of Earth. Exploring key concerns of our time, this absorbing thought experiment reveals a powerful - and surprising - picture of our planet's future.
Nature Not Mocked Places People And Science
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Author : Peter Day
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2006-02-10
Nature Not Mocked Places People And Science written by Peter Day and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-10 with Science categories.
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively concern for issues engaging public awareness of science, have led him to recognize and celebrate, not just the remarkable contributions and unusual lives of past scientific heroes like Rumford and Faraday, but also their present day successors. Over the years, this insight has resulted in a wide variety of articles and essays, spread through many publications; a selection of these is collected in this book.The tapestry of science does not just consist of facts uncovered about the natural world and the laws that connect them. As perhaps the finest product of the human mind, its substance and direction are strongly conditioned (some might even say determined) by the people drawn to take part in it and the environments in which they work. This book is an edited collection of essays on aspects of the lives of some famous (as well as less well-known) scientists and places where science is carried out, combined with popular accounts of some of the science the author himself has been involved in. Although it focuses on the Royal Institution and some of those associated with it, it ranges more widely to embrace some contemporary scientists known personally to the author, each of whom had an unusual and distinctive career. At the same time, the science itself, while at the cutting edge, is placed firmly in its historical perspective. The essays are collected into themes, each of which is prefaced and put in context by a short introduction./a
Turning Science Into Things People Need
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Author : David Giltner
language : en
Publisher: 50 Interviews Incorporated
Release Date : 2010-05
Turning Science Into Things People Need written by David Giltner and has been published by 50 Interviews Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Ten respected scientists who have built successful careers in industry reveal how they made the transition from research scientist to industrial scientist or successful entrepreneur and discuss what kind of jobs scientists hold in the private sector.
Science By The People
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Author : Aya H. Kimura
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-13
Science By The People written by Aya H. Kimura and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-13 with Nature categories.
Studies show that citizen science projects--projects involving nonprofessionals--face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.
Science Education From People For People
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Author : Wolff-Michael Roth
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-06-10
Science Education From People For People written by Wolff-Michael Roth and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-10 with Education categories.
Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns within or outside school; develops a new form of scholarship based on the dialogic nature of science as process and product; and achieves these two objectives in a readable but scholarly way. Opposing the tendency to teach and do research as if science, science education, and scientific literacy could be imposed from the outside, the authors want science education to be for people rather than strictly about how knowledge gets into their heads. Taking up the challenges of this orientation, science educators can begin to make inroads into the currently widespread irrelevance of science in the everyday lives of people. Utmost attention has been given to making this book readable by the people from whose lives the topics of the chapters emerge, all the while retaining academic integrity and high-level scholarship. Wolff Michael Roth has been awarded the Distinguished Contributions Award by The National Association for Research in Science Teaching, for his contributions to research in this field. He has also been elected to be the Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.
People S Science
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Author : Ruha Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-22
People S Science written by Ruha Benjamin and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-22 with Science categories.
“An engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy.” —Daniel R. Morrison, American Journal of Sociology Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefit—or don’t—from regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society. People’s Science uncovers the tension between scientific innovation and social equality, taking the reader inside California’s 2004 stem cell initiative, the first of many state referenda on scientific research, to consider the lives it has affected. Benjamin reveals the promise and peril of public participation in science, illuminating issues of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class that serve to define certain groups as more or less deserving in their political aims and biomedical hopes. Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues that without more deliberate consideration about how scientific initiatives can and should reflect a wider array of social concerns, stem cell research—from African Americans’ struggle with sickle cell treatment to the recruitment of women as tissue donors—still risks excluding many. Even as regenerative medicine is described as a participatory science for the people, Benjamin asks us to consider if “the people” ultimately reflects our democratic ideals.
Science Year 5
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Author : Sue Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Science Year 5 written by Sue Hunter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with Study Aids categories.
Exam Board: ISEB Level: KS2 Subject: Science First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 A stimulating and rigorous approach to Science that goes beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum for Year 5 pupils (aged 9 and above) preparing for Common Entrance and other independent entrance exams at 11+ o Endorsed by ISEB to ensure full coverage of the Common Entrance 11+ syllabus o Develop key skills with clear explanations and diagrams o Explore scientific concepts with lots of practical activities o Challenge understanding with varied exercises and extension questions Galore Park Science Year 5 Answers is available to purchase from the Galore Park website www.galorepark.co.uk
Reproducibility And Replicability In Science
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2019-10-20
Reproducibility And Replicability In Science written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-20 with Science categories.
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to independently confirm the computations or results of a previous study, some fear that it may be a symptom of a lack of rigor in science, while others argue that such an observed inconsistency can be an important precursor to new discovery. Concerns about reproducibility and replicability have been expressed in both scientific and popular media. As these concerns came to light, Congress requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to assess the extent of issues related to reproducibility and replicability and to offer recommendations for improving rigor and transparency in scientific research. Reproducibility and Replicability in Science defines reproducibility and replicability and examines the factors that may lead to non-reproducibility and non-replicability in research. Unlike the typical expectation of reproducibility between two computations, expectations about replicability are more nuanced, and in some cases a lack of replicability can aid the process of scientific discovery. This report provides recommendations to researchers, academic institutions, journals, and funders on steps they can take to improve reproducibility and replicability in science.