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• Date of publication Mar 21, 2013 Category: Commentary

  Seven memos for the next JCOM

  by Juan Nepote

  Throughout its existence JCOM has earned a special recognition as a space of confluence for the international community of science communicators, but how should be its immediate future? Here are some ideas inspired by which Italo Calvino’s suggested as the main characteristics for the literature of the 21st century, hoping to have a JCOM light, rapid, accurate, visible, multiple, consistent and comprehensive.

  Volume 12 • Issue 01 • 2013

• Date of publication Jun 20, 2008 Category: Letter

  The other books – A journey through science books

  by Juan Nepote

  On March 2007 JCOM issue, Bruce Lewenstein made this question: why should we care about science books? Next he analyzed some fundamental roles of science books. As a continuation for that enquiry, this text wants to be a dialogue about science, readers, and books, just a quick look at many of the other books, science books, those that do not find easily their place in bookstores and libraries; these books situated beyond labels like fiction or romance but equally memorable, necessaries and desirables.

  Volume 7 • Issue 02 • 2008

• Date of publication Jun 21, 2007 Category: Commentary

  The first kiss of science - From interactivity to dialogue

  by Juan Nepote

  In the Rafael Nieto Auditorium of the National Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi Mexico, few chairs are empty. The room is full of Astrophysics professors, Solid State of Matter, Elementary Particles, Fluid Mechanics, etc. It is the 49th National Congress of Physic. Today ­extraordinarily- it has slip into the program an analysis round table about the new outlines in science museums in Mexico.

  Volume 6 • Issue 02 • 2007