issue 01, march 2005

editorial

The Tsunami challenge

Pietro Greco

21/03/2005

Many lives could have been saved on 26 December 2004, when the tsunami unleashed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the Indonesian island ...

focus

Science communication in India: current situation, history and future developments

Marzia Mazzonetto

21/03/2005

Nowadays, India is experiencing a widespread diffusion of science communication activities. Public institutions, non-governmental organisations and a number ...

article

Historians of science and the "Sobel Effect"

Paola Govoni

21/03/2005

In 1995, journalist Dava Sobel's Longitude caused an earthquake in the history of science community. The present article analyses how only recently ...

article

Understanding How the Public Perceives the Importance of University Research in the United States

Ricard W. Jensen

21/03/2005

comment

Metaphor, allegory and parody: interferences and resonances between science an music in the contemporary perception

Stefano Jacoviello

21/03/2005

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Sabrina Sartori

Creativity in the art and in the music of Big Bang: interview to the composer Claudio Ambrosini

Gianni Zanarini

Die Harmonie der Welt of Paul Hindemith

Pietro Greco

Vincenzio and Galileo Galilei's epistemic imprinting

Leonello Tarabella

Music, communication, technology

Laura Tedeschini Lalli

Mathematicians and musicians, pattern's exploratories

review

Understanding science publics

Daniele Gouthier

09/12/2005

Exploring public attitudes towards science helps investigate the images of science and what the social representations of science are. In this regard, ...