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Date of publication Dec 09, 2005 Category: Book Review
"A place to discover - teaching science and technology with museums" of Maria Xanthoudaki (ed)
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Date of publication Dec 09, 2005 Category: Book Review
"Contare e raccontare. Dialogo sulle due culture"
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Date of publication Dec 09, 2005 Category: Book Review
Il nostro folle quotidiano
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Date of publication Dec 09, 2005 Category: Book Review
"The elegant universe" by Brian Greene
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Networking at global and community levels for control of diseases
The world is facing an unprecedented situation in health management as fast transport and travel lead to spread of diseases at a rate that has not been seen before and into countries that had once conquered them. This is even more evident with infectious diseases which do not respect geopolitical barriers or economic progress. It is becoming increasingly clear that control of such diseases and good practices for public health need global sharing of knowledge and international cooperation. In addition networking of institutions involved in health care with the communities that they serve is fundamental to containing diseases and promoting good health. For reasons as yet unclear even non infectious diseases such as obesity, hypertension and diabetes are also increasing at an alarming rate globally. The advantages of international networking and timely communication which contained three diseases will be discussed in this article.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Communication for development. An Indian experience
"Knowledge and information are essential for people to respond successfully to the opportunities and challenges of social, economic and technological changes (...). But to be useful, knowledge and information must be effectively communicated to people", says the Food and Agricultural Organization. India is home to a number of ICT-enabled development initiatives, and we will look at one of them to learn how an effective communication strategy is used.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Knowledge sharing for sustainable development through biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican region
As recognized by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, the human community has reached a point in which it is faced with an array of choices that will determine the quality of our lives and the state of the global environment for present and future generations. One possibility is that at long last we will pave a path toward environmental stewardship and sustainable development. But it is also quite possible that we will travel a less enlightened course, running down the earth's natural capital and severely limiting the choices our descendants will face.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2005 Category: Commentary
Knowledge sharing (or a life of knowledge sharing)
I have been involved in College education since my days as a student in the Universidad de Buenos Aires. At that time, 1960, I helped to teach the course of Scientific Russian given in the Faculty of Sciences; strange as it might seem, the aim of the course was to allow the students to use scientific books especially in the area of Physics and Mathematics.
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Date of publication Sep 21, 2005 Category: Article
The rotten, the disembowelled woman, the skinned man. Body images from Eighteenth century Florentine wax modelling
Florence's La Specola Museum stirs up strong emotions. Among its collections, the valuable anatomical wax models created between the end of 17th and the beginning of 18th century stand out owing to their marvellous and provocative nature. The aim of this essay is to analyse the communication models epitomised by some of these works by means of historical semiotics, to nourish the widespread, but often underestimated assumption that science and the means used to spread it have always been influenced by intellectual suppositions and constantly interact with contemporary culture.
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