Journal articles: 'Popularizers of scienc'

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Wolf-Chase, Grace A., and Leslie J. Sage. "Science boldly popularized." Nature 372, no. 6502 (November 1994): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/372141a0.

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Qiaomu, Hu. "Popularize Science, Resist Superstition." Chinese Studies in Philosophy 28, no. 1 (October 1996): 18–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/csp1097-1467280118.

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McBirney, Alexander. "On books that popularize science." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 86, no. 35 (2005): 318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005eo350005.

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Schwartz, A. Truman. "Some unsolicited advice to popularizers (and teachers) of science." Journal of Chemical Education 67, no. 9 (September 1990): 754. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed067p754.

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Gooday, Graeme. "Victorian popularizers of science: Designing nature for new audiences." Science Education 93, no. 2 (March 2009): 383–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sce.20327.

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Steel, Duncan. "Carl Sagan: Practitioner, popularizer and proponent of science." Contemporary Physics 42, no. 4 (July 2001): 247–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00107510110054654.

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McDonald, Lisa, Chantal Barriault, and Thomas Merritt. "Effects of gender harassment on science popularization behaviors." Public Understanding of Science 29, no. 7 (August 5, 2020): 718–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662520946667.

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In this pilot study, we used a mixed methods online survey to ask science popularizers how gender harassment influences the way they communicate science to the public. Popularizers reported that gender harassment caused the science popularization field to increasingly strive for gender inclusivity in the creation of content. However, harassment made female popularizers feel they must emphasize their legitimacy, quite conscious of their clothing choices, and wary of engaging the public through mediums or topics that provoke more severe harassment. Implications for science communication and public engagement are discussed.

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Kysil, Veronika. "Printed Popular Science Literature as a Way to Popularize Technical Science." Scientific notes of the Institute of Journalism, no. 2 (77) (2020): 86–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2522-1272.2020.77.7.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of tools for popularization of technical sciences. The levels of public funding in the leading countries, as well as the number of popular science editions in the different countries of the world are considered. The objective of this article is to identify the factors of science development, taking into account the number of popular science periodicals, the level of English language proficiency as well as the level of research funding in these countries; to analyze the number of popular science editions in general and to single out the periodicals of exactly technical nature in order to have a broader understanding of the ways of science popularization among young audiences; to trace the relationship between promotion of science and science level in general. To achieve this objective, the methods of analysis of documentary information, as well as the method of generalization were used. The dependence of the level of development of science on the level of its state funding and the number of popular science editions has been proved. Popularization is necessary for further development of science in Ukraine and involvement of young people to enter technical educational institutions, which will increase the level of science and economy in the country.

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Lightman, Bernard. "Marketing knowledge for the general reader: Victorian popularizers of science." Endeavour 24, no. 3 (September 2000): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-9327(00)01307-7.

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Lehman, Darrin R., and Kenneth J. Hemphill. "Popularized Science as a Form of Superstition." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 34, no. 8 (August 1989): 732–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/030975.

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Edgerton, David. "Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer." Nature 571, no. 7763 (July 2019): 32–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02010-y.

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Burns, Joseph A. "Carl Sagan (1934–96)Astronomer and popularizer of science." Nature 385, no. 6615 (January 1997): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/385400a0.

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Sagan, Carl. "Guest Comment: Why scientists should popularize science." American Journal of Physics 57, no. 4 (April 1989): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16063.

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LaFollette, Marcel C. "Editorial: An Accelerated Rate of Change—“Popularized” Science." Science Communication 18, no. 4 (June 1997): 291–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547097018004001.

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Maevskaya, Marina Igorevna, and Ludmila Petrovna Gromova. "RUSSIAN GENIUS LOMONOSOV AS A PIONEER AND POPULARIZER IN SCIENCE." HOLOS 6 (December 3, 2018): 248–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15628/holos.2018.7882.

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Tyron, Olena M. "HOW TO USE WRITERS' PIECES OF ART – POPULARIZERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS." Scientific Notes of Ostroh Academy National University: Psychology Series 1, no. 13 (June 24, 2021): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2415-7384-2021-13-68-75.

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Fiction writers who are engaged in science is a phenomenon. We studied this phenomenon to gain new opportunities for the development of soft skills in students of technical specialties and to widen the possibility of popularizing scientific achievements. The chronological boundaries of the study cover the period of XVIII – the first half of XX century; geographical boundaries cover Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The relevance of the study is related to the relevance of popularizing science among students of technical specialties, as well as the development of soft skills through writing stories about scientific discoveries, fostering interest in reading fiction about science and technology. The purpose of the study was to find psychological and informational material that will affect the emotional sphere of the student's personality and motivate him to write and read works of art about research and innovation. The ability to use research on the role of writers as promoters of science and technology depends on how we provide information about their works. In this regard, we offer a psychological technique to impress readers of scientific stories, i.e. the effect of “wow” as a combination of the factor “wow” and the halo effect. Stories about science affect different areas of human activity. They are used to address environmental, medical, political and other issues. The information material of the study confirms the following: if scientists and inventors do not demonstrate the consequences of their inventions and discoveries, it leads to erroneous assumptions, causes alarm in society and affects the mind of the individual. We studied the nature of writers' connection to science and sought answers to the question of whether writing works of art and the ability to do research could be equal aspects of an individual's abilities. The results of the study prove that these abilities predominate in only one area of activity. We also support the view that writers can be impartial promoters of science and technology. However, we propose this idea for discussion because writers demonstrate more the ethical side of the interaction between science and the human mind than they disseminate scientific facts. The further development of the study will be related to the study of the influence of science fiction on consciousness, namely how science fiction informs the reader about the current state of the world and draws attention to the changes we must make as a species.

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Borodai, I. "ACADEMICIAN V. BURKAT – PUBLICIST, HISTORIAN AND POPULARIZER OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE IN UKRAINE." Animal Breeding and Genetics 51 (March 28, 2018): 14–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/abg.51.02.

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The author has proved that doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, academician V. Burkat was a talented publicist, a promoter of national agricultural science achievements.The author has used general scientific, interdisciplinary and historical research methods. She has also used methods of archive and literature source analysis. The basis of the literature source base is scientific papers of doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, academician V. Burkat.The article shows that V. Burkat is a co-founder of the historical-biographical series, encyclopedic, reference and bibliographic publications, editor of the scientific-themed digests, author of fundamental scientific papers. One of the greatest achievements of the scientist is active participation in the intensive deployment of encyclopedic work in Ukraine. He was a member of the main editorial board of the "Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine" from 1997. During the life years he published eight volumes of this edition. In the last years Institute of Encyclopedic Research started preparing another encyclopedic edition – Universal Encyclopedia of Ukraine. V. Burkat prepared dictionary of agricultural section. He believed the leading field of research on the history of domestic agricultural science should become agricultural biographу studies. The first step in this direction was the establishment of historical and biographical series "Ukrainian Agrarian Scientists of the Twentieth Century" in 1997. He produced nine books in the series, which highlighted the life, scientific and public activities of 1270 Ukrainian agrarian scientists. V. Burkat took an active part in the preparation of publications on the activities of scientists in the field of animal husbandry to their anniversaries. These are conference theses, monographs on the life and work of F. Faltz-Fein, I. Ivanov, M. Ivanov, I. Smirnov, O. Yatsenko, F. Eisner, M. Kravchenko, O. Kvasnytsky and others. The scientist contributed to the establishment and development of national agricultural bibliography. Bibliographies of leading scientists in the field of animal breeding, corresponding members of NAAS F. Eisner and M. Efymenko, professors I. Smirnov and V. Konovalov, doctors I. Petrenko and B. Podoba were issued by his scientific edition.The author has justified that academician V. Burkat is one of the drafters of the branch thematic bibliography "The Beef Cattle: Past, Present and Future. 1950-2004". He proposed to establish new serial publication "Scientific Agricultural School". V. Burkat provided special attention to popularization of some research scientific and industrial institutions that considered as the main link towards building of national agricultural experimantal work on animal husbandry. In particular, he prepared a series of publications which summarized the main stages of NAAS and IABG activities.V. Burkat`s contribution to the popularization of Ukrainian scientists’ achievements on animal husbandry is particularly significant. He prepared the reference editions "Breeding Work" (1995), "Breeding Resources of Ukraine" (1998), "Selection Achievements in Animal Breeding" (2000). The documentaries "Brown Dairy Breed", "Red Breed", "Red-and-White Breed", "Black-and-White Breed" prepared by academician V. Burkat in 1989 profit presentation of breeding achievements of Ukrainian scientists in the field of animal husbandry.V. Burkat initiated the publication of scientific and practical bulletin "Selection", which provided systematic information on development of the selection process of the improvement of existing and creation of new highly productive breeds and types of farm animals.V. Burkat was a member of the editorial board of the journals «Animal Husbandry of Ukraine" (1978-2009), "Journal of Agricultural Sciences" (1986-1989), "Biology of Animals" (1999-2009), "Fisheries Science" (2007); scientific thematic collections of "Dairy and Beef Cattle" (1982-1987), "Journal of Cherkassy Institute of Agroindustrial Production" (2000-2009), "Bulletin of the Ukrainian Society of Geneticists and Breeders" (2003-2009), abstract journal "Agriculture of Ukraine "(1999-2009), interdepartmental thematic scientific digest "Animal Breeding and Genetics" and others.

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Scheitle, Christopher P., and Elaine Howard Ecklund. "The influence of science popularizers on the public’s view of religion and science: An experimental assessment." Public Understanding of Science 26, no. 1 (August 3, 2016): 25–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662515588432.

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Research suggests that public figures can play an influential role in forming public opinion; yet, little research has experimentally tested the efficacy of public figures on the cognitive formation of boundaries. Using an experiment embedded within a nationally representative survey, we examine how two science popularizers, Francis Collins and Richard Dawkins, influence perceptions regarding the boundaries between religion and science. We find that learning of Dawkins does not influence people’s perceptions of the religion–science relationship, while learning of Collins shifts respondents toward a collaborative view of religion and science. Findings suggest that figures with unexpected views might be more effective in changing conceptual boundaries.

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Höst, Gunnar E., and Gustav Bohlin. "Engines of Creationism? Intelligent Design, Machine Metaphors and Visual Rhetoric." Leonardo 48, no. 1 (February 2015): 80–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00905.

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Machine metaphors are ubiquitous in the molecular sciences. In addition to their use by scientists, educators and popularizers of science, they have been promoted intensively by the Intelligent Design (ID) movement in arguments for the necessity of a god-like designer to account for the complexities of life at the molecular level. The authors have investigated the visual rhetoric employed in a movie by ID proponents, with particular emphasis on machine metaphors. The authors provide examples and argue that science communicators could reduce the persuasive impact of ID visual rhetoric based on machine metaphors by emphasizing that self-assembly is fundamental to molecular complexes.

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Lightman, Bernard. "The Visual Theology of Victorian Popularizers of Science: From Reverent Eye to Chemical Retina." Isis 91, no. 4 (December 2000): 651–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/384944.

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Silva, José Alberto. "The Portuguese Popularizer of Science Teodoro De Almeida: Agendas, Publics, and Bilingualism." History of Science 50, no. 1 (March 2012): 93–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327531205000104.

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Lightman, Bernard. "Popularizers, participation and the transformations of nineteenth-century publishing: From the 1860s to the 1880s." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 70, no. 4 (October 5, 2016): 343–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0029.

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Focusing on the editors, journalists and authors who worked on the new ‘popular science’ periodicals and books from the 1860s to the 1880s, this piece will discuss how they conceived of their readers as co-participants in the creation of knowledge. The transformation of nineteenth-century publishing opened up opportunities for making science more accessible to a new polity of middle and working class readers. Editors, journalists and authors responded to the communications revolution, and the larger developments that accompanied it, by defining the exemplary scientist in opposition to the emerging conception of the professional scientist, by rejecting the notion that the laboratory was the sole legitimate site of scientific discovery and by experimenting with new ways of communicating scientific knowledge to their audience.

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Dunwoody, Sharon. "The challenge for scholars of popularized science communication: explaining ourselves." Public Understanding of Science 1, no. 1 (January 1992): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/1/1/002.

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James, Frank A. J. L. "Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences/Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences." Annals of Science 69, no. 4 (October 10, 2011): 584–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033791003654337.

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Choudhuri, A. R. "Communicating the science of the 11-year sunspot cycle to the general public." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10, H16 (August 2012): 638. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921314012617.

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Astrophysics is one branch of science which excites the imagination of the general public. Pioneer science popularizers like George Gamow and Fred Hoyle wrote on different aspects of astrophysics. However, of late, we see a trend which I find disturbing. While it has become extremely fashionable to write popular science books on cosmology, other areas of astrophysics are grossly neglected.

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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette. "Popular Science and Politics in Interwar France." Science in Context 26, no. 3 (July 25, 2013): 459–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889713000148.

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ArgumentThe interwar period in France is characterized by intense activity to disseminate science in society through various media: magazines, conferences, book series, encyclopedias, radio, exhibitions, and museums. In this context, the scientific community developed significant attempts to disseminate science in close alliance with the State. This paper presents three ambitious projects conducted in the 1930s which targeted different audiences and engaged the social sciences along with the natural sciences. The first project was a multimedia enterprise aimed at bridging what would later be named “the two cultures” – natural sciences and humanities – rather than at popularizing scientific results in the society at large. The second project, an encyclopedia namedEncyclopédie françaiseedited by the French historian Lucien Febvre, was meant to shape a cultural view of science for the general public. The third project and the most successful enterprise was thePalais de la découvertedesigned by the physicist Jean Perrin and explicitly aimed at attracting the young public. This paper explores the paradoxes that resulted from these large enterprises. Despite their social ideals, the scientists-popularizers favored an elitist concept of popular science essentially aimed at integrating science into high culture. While they strove to overcome the increased specialization of sciences, their efforts nevertheless accelerated the professionalization of scientific research and the isolation of science in an ivory tower. In their attempts to get closer to the public, they eventually contributed to spreading the cliché of the increasing gap between the scientists and the public.

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CROSLAND, MAURICE. "Popular science and the arts: challenges to cultural authority in France under the Second Empire." British Journal for the History of Science 34, no. 3 (September 2001): 301–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087401004435.

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The National Institute of Science and the Arts, founded in 1795, consists of parallel academies, concerned with science, literature, the visual arts and so on. In the nineteenth century it represented a unique government-sponsored intellectual authority and a supreme court judgement, a power which came to be resented by innovators of all kinds. The Académie des sciences held a virtual monopoly in representing French science but soon this came to be challenged. In the period of the Second Empire (1852–70) we find a group of men carving out a new career for themselves as professional popularizers of science, commissioned to write regular articles in newspapers and journals. Although they had begun by simply reporting the meetings of the Académie des sciences, they soon widened their scope and even began criticizing the august Académie. Thus they represented the alternative voice of science, distinct from ‘official science’. These independent writers had their counterpart in painting and literature, both of which were developing radical new approaches in mid-century. When the very traditional Fine Art Academy refused to consider their paintings, painters like Cézanne and Manet found an alternative outlet. Writers too asserted their independence from the Académie française. There were not only many parallels between the independent practitioners in science, painting and literature but also new schools of ‘naturalism’ in painting and literature which looked to science as a model.

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Arsyad, Mustamin. "KONTRIBUSI ILMU TAFSIR/HADIS DALAM PEMBANGUNAN KARAKTER BANGSA." Jurnal Studia Insania 2, no. 1 (April 30, 2014): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18592/jsi.v2i1.1087.

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Character development in view of Islam is not a new thing even though it may differ from the terms and substance popularized by the people in the western world, and Islam as Rahmatan Lil Alamin Contributions are also connected with the science of Tafsir and Hadith sciences in National Character Development. Quran and Hadith as the primary source of Islamic teachings popularized by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi as an attempt to restore / re-open the door / the concept of ijtihad never old-fashioned vacuum caused by many factors, among others, the followers of the school of many who do not understand that the practice of priests mazahib was just the result of their understanding of the verses and the Sunnah of the Prophet.

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Danielson, Peter. "Prisoner's Dilemma Popularized: Game Theory and Ethical Progress." Dialogue 34, no. 2 (1995): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300014724.

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Is game theory good for us? This may seem an odd question. In the strict sense, game theory—the axiomatic account of interaction between rational agents—is as morally neutral as arithmetic. But the popularization of game theory as a way of thinking about social interaction is far from neutral. Consider the contrast between characterizing bargaining over distribution as a “zero-sum society” and focussing on “win-win” cooperative solutions. These reflections bring us to the book under review, Prisoner's Dilemma, a popular introduction to game theory and its relation to ethics by the respected science writer William Poundstone. The book begins with a moral dilemma and ends by discussing the evolution of co-operation. Poundstone emphasizes—correctly, to my mind—the ethical potential of game theory. He concludes his first chapter with this striking claim: “Today's practitioners of game theory are attempting to forge a kind of ethical progress. Is there any way to promote the common good in a prisoner's dilemma? The attempt to answer this question is one of the great intellectual adventures of our time” (p. 9).

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Hersch, Matthew H. "Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette." Journal of American Culture 32, no. 2 (June 2009): 175–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2009.00707_19.x.

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Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R. "Competing to Popularize Newtonian Philosophy." Isis 94, no. 3 (September 2003): 435–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/380653.

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da Rocha Gonçalves, Dulce. "Science between the fairground and the academy: The case of Dutch science popularizer L. K. Maju (1823–1886)." Public Understanding of Science 29, no. 8 (October 21, 2020): 881–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662520965093.

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Scharrer, Lisa, Yvonne Rupieper, Marc Stadtler, and Rainer Bromme. "When science becomes too easy: Science popularization inclines laypeople to underrate their dependence on experts." Public Understanding of Science 26, no. 8 (November 30, 2016): 1003–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662516680311.

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Science popularization fulfills the important task of making scientific knowledge understandable and accessible for the lay public. However, the simplification of information required to achieve this accessibility may lead to the risk of audiences relying overly strongly on their own epistemic capabilities when making judgments about scientific claims. Moreover, they may underestimate how the division of cognitive labor makes them dependent on experts. This article reports an empirical study demonstrating that this “easiness effect of science popularization” occurs when laypeople read authentic popularized science depictions. After reading popularized articles addressed to a lay audience, laypeople agreed more with the knowledge claims they contained and were more confident in their claim judgments than after reading articles addressed to expert audiences. Implications for communicating scientific knowledge to the general public are discussed.

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Shermer, Michael B. "This View of Science: Stephen Jay Gould as Historian of Science and Scientific Historian, Popular Scientist and Scientific Popularizer." Social Studies of Science 32, no. 4 (August 1, 2002): 489–524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631202128967244.

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Usol’tseva, N. V. "Professor I. G. Chistyakov is the Outstanding Scientist, Organizer and Popularizer of Liquid Crystal Science." Liquid Crystals and their Application 19, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18083/lcappl.2019.2.6.

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Peters, Greg M. "Popularize or publish? Growth in Australia." International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 14, no. 6 (July 7, 2009): 503–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11367-009-0114-4.

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Komonen, Atte, Panu Halme, and Janne S. Kotiaho. "Alarmist by bad design: Strongly popularized unsubstantiated claims undermine credibility of conservation science." Rethinking Ecology 4 (March 19, 2019): 17–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/rethinkingecology.4.34440.

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&ldquo;Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades.&rdquo; or &ldquo;Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world&#39;s insect species over the next few decades.&rdquo; These are verbatim conclusions of the recent paper by S&aacute;nchez-Bayoa and Wyckhuys (2019) in Biological Conservation. Because of fundamental methodological flaws, their conclusions are unsubstantiated. Like noted by The Guardian, the conclusions of the paper were set out in unusually forceful terms for a peer-reviewed scientific paper. The current case has already seen corrections and withdrawals in print and social media. We are concerned that such development is eroding the importance of the biodiversity crisis, making the work of conservationists harder, and undermining the credibility of conservation science.

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Smith, Jonathan. ":Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences;The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856." American Historical Review 113, no. 4 (October 2008): 1241–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.113.4.1241.

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Zaikina, G. A. "The Russian Academy of Sciences and its responsibility to promote science." Вестник Российской академии наук 89, no. 1 (January 15, 2019): 15–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0869-587389115-23.

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The meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences held on September 18, 2018, discussed the tasks of the Russian Academy of Sciences toward promoting science. On this issue, the keynote address was made by RAS Vice President Academician A.R. Khokhlov, who highlighted the aims of such activities, measures being implemented, and cited several examples from the practice of educational work. This study focuses on the possibility of including activities to promote scientific knowledge in the government task of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition, the speaker discussed the role of the RAS Commission on contesting pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research in diffusion of purely scientific ideas and popularization of the scientific perspective globally, proposing to create two separate commissions based on the existing one. A.R. Khokhlov emphasizes developing a program by the Russian Academy of Sciences to popularize science. Finally, this report presents an earnest dialog that took place on this topic. Here, readers are offered the presentation of the report and its discussion materials.

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Ferguson, Christine. "Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences, and: Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences (review)." Victorian Review 36, no. 2 (2010): 133–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2010.0012.

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Ducceschi, Luca, and Roberto Zamparelli. "Puzz-Ling: A hands-on model of syntax to popularize linguistics as a science." Language and Linguistics Compass 12, no. 9 (July 26, 2018): e12299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12299.

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Zhang, Hong Fang, and Jian Liu. "The Rational Thought of Science Popularization from the Perspective of Disembodying Mechanism Theory." Advanced Materials Research 926-930 (May 2014): 4134–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.926-930.4134.

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The paper disserts the important function of scientific thoughts when facing the distrust of social common snse., raises that improving science popularization not only means to popularize knowledge, but also means to foster scientific rational thought and improve public science literacy with the help of study on application of science popularization from the perspective of disembodying mechanism theory.

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Epifanov, Vladimir, Aleksey Ivanov, Ivan Yashkov, and Aleksandr Panichev. "OWN TRACE OF PROFESSOR VASILY IVANOVICH BGATOV - GEOSCIENTIST, ECOGEOLOGIST, POPULARIZER OF SCIENCE (TO THE 90TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY)." LIFE OF THE EARTH 42, no. 1 (February 2, 2020): 109–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m886.0514-7468.2020_42_1/109-116.

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Monk-Turner, Elizabeth. "Epistemology, social inquiry and quantum theory." Qualitative Research Journal 20, no. 2 (March 25, 2020): 228–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-10-2019-0085.

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PurposeThis work examines assumptions of positivism and the traditional scientific method.Design/methodology/approachInsights from quantum mechanics are explored especially as they relate to method, measurement and what is knowable. An argument is made that how social scientists, particularly sociologists, understand the nature of “reality out there” and describe the social world may be challenged by quantum ideas. The benefits of utilized mixed methods, considering quantum insights, cannot be overstated.FindingsIt is the proposition of this work that insights from modern physics alter the understanding of the world “out there.” Wheeler suggested that the most profound implication from modern physics is that “there is no out there” (1982; see also Baggott, 1992). Grappling with how modern physics may alter understanding in the social sciences will be difficult; however, that does not mean the task should not be undertaken (see Goswami, 1993). A starting point for the social sciences may be relinquishing an old mechanistic science that depends on the establishment of an objective, empirically based, verifiable reality. Mechanistic science demands “one true reality – a clear-cut reality on which everyone can agree…. Mechanistic science is by definition reductionistic…it has had to try to reduce complexity to oversimplification and process to statis. This creates an illusionary world…that has little or nothing to do with the complexity of the process of the reality of creation as we know, experience, and participate in it” (Goswami, 1993, pp. 64, 66).Research limitations/implicationsMany physicists have popularized quantum ideas for others interested in contemplating the implications of modern physics. Because of the difficulty in conceiving of quantum ideas, the meaning of the quantum in popular culture is far removed from the parent discipline. Thus, the culture has been shaped by the rhetoric and ideas surrounding the basic quantum mathematical formulas. And, over time, as quantum ideas have come to be part of the popular culture, even the link to the popularized literature in physics is lost. Rather, quantum ideas may be viewed as cultural formations that take on a life of their own.Practical implicationsThe work allows a critique of positivist method and provides insight on how to frame qualitative methodology in a new way.Social implicationsThe work utilizes popularized ideas in quantum theory: the preeminent theory that describes all matter. Little work in sociology utilizes this perspective in understanding research methods.Originality/valueQuantum insights have rarely been explored in highlighting limitations in positivism. The current work aims to build on quantum insights and how these may help us better understand the social world around us.

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Orr, Mary. "Women peers in the scientific realm: Sarah Bowdich (Lee)'s expert collaborations with Georges Cuvier, 1825–33." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 69, no. 1 (November 26, 2014): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2014.0059.

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The accepted rule for women contributing to nineteenth-century science before 1851 was that they could play only secondary roles in its production and authorship—as translators, illustrators, popularizers—and these by virtue of kinship or marriage to eminent scientists in the field or the laboratory. Sarah Bowdich (Lee) (1791–1856) presents an important amendment to this rule. As an explorer of West Africa on an equal scientific footing with her husband, and then a writer of science independently after his early death, she had other key roles as Georges Cuvier's cross-Channel scientific collaborator and as his first biographer. This article investigates and reframes Sarah's many individual achievements in science and its writing, to examine the larger questions of her case. How were her publications and ‘uneasy career’ in science possible? Can research on women in science today find inspiration in her example?

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Turney, Jon. "Accounting for explanation in popular science texts—an analysis of popularized accounts of superstring theory." Public Understanding of Science 13, no. 4 (October 2004): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662504044909.

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Nwogu, Kevin N. "Structure of science popularizations: A genre-analysis approach to the schema of popularized medical texts." English for Specific Purposes 10, no. 2 (January 1991): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0889-4906(91)90004-g.

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Holton, Gerald. "Can science be at the centre of modern culture?" Public Understanding of Science 2, no. 4 (October 1993): 291–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/2/4/001.

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Increasingly, such concepts as the `End of the Modern Era', the `End of Progress', and the `End of Objectivity' have been given public exposure, originating from parts of academe and from popularizers. Far from being merely a passing phase connected with the usual fin-de-siècle preoccupations, the movement appears to signal the resurgence of an old, recurring rebellion against Enlightenment-based presuppositions of Western civilization, particularly the claim of science to lead to intersubjective (objective) knowledge. The negative impacts upon the public understanding of science are becoming evident, including among legislators of science policy. To understand the movement, a survey is given of some of the chief theorists on the question of whether science may play a central role in 20th-century culture, including Oswald Spengler, the Vienna Circle scientist-philosophers, Sigmund Freud, Isaiah Berlin, and Václav Havel.

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Spivak, I. A., Y. T. Leibenson, and T. A. Prokhorova. "MIND AND HEART IN THE SERVICE OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: TO THE ANNIVERSARY OF PROFESSOR ELEONORA PETROVA." Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical science 6 (72), no. 3 (2020): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37279/2413-1741-2020-6-3-3-24.

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In 2020, doctor of historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of history of the ancient world and the Middle ages of the V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University Eleonora Petrova celebrates a double anniversary − her 70th anniversary and 45 years of work at the University. A brilliant specialist of ancient history of the Crimea and the Northern Black Sea region, a talented researcher, a wonderful teacher, author of numerous books and articles, editor and popularizer, she is an example of a real historian-researcher, indefatigable and inquisitive. Her broadest range of interests led to the appearance of numerous works on a variety of topics, including: the history of antiquity, the history of science, the history of the Crimea in ancient and modern times, travels in the Crimea and notes of travelers in the late XVIII − early XX century, biographical studies. Much attention is paid to the aspects in the life and work of Eleonora Petrova that make her an outstanding representative of the modern science of antiquity, the brightest researcher of the history of the Crimea in various epochs.

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Lombard, François, Daniel K. Schneider, Marie Merminod, and Laura Weiss. "Balancing Emotion and Reason to Develop Critical Thinking About Popularized Neurosciences." Science & Education 29, no. 5 (September 7, 2020): 1139–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11191-020-00154-2.

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Abstract Bioscientific advances raise numerous new ethical dilemmas. Neuroscience research opens possibilities of tracing and even modifying human brain processes, such as decision-making, revenge, or pain control. Social media and science popularization challenge the boundaries between truth, fiction, and deliberate misinformation, calling for critical thinking (CT). Biology teachers often feel ill-equipped to organize student debates that address sensitive issues, opinions, and emotions in classrooms. Recent brain research confirms that opinions cannot be understood as solely objective and logical and are strongly influenced by the form of empathy. Emotional empathy engages strongly with salient aspects but blinds to others’ reactions while cognitive empathy allows perspective and independent CT. In order to address the complex socioscientific issues (SSIs) that recent neuroscience raises, cognitive empathy is a significant skill rarely developed in schools. We will focus on the processes of opinion building and argue that learners first need a good understanding of methods and techniques to discuss potential uses and other people’s possible emotional reactions. Subsequently, in order to develop cognitive empathy, students are asked to describe opposed emotional reactions as dilemmas by considering alternative viewpoints and values. Using a design-based-research paradigm, we propose a new learning design method for independent critical opinion building based on the development of cognitive empathy. We discuss an example design to illustrate the generativity of the method. The collected data suggest that students developed decentering competency and scientific methods literacy. Generalizability of the design principles to enhance other CT designs is discussed.

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