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Jun 21, 2002
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Letter
The evolution of citation habits in primary science communication
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Editorial
Science, Socrates and the media
There is no use denying it: whenever a scientist gets a piece of news in a newspaper or on television concerning his own field of research, eight times out of ten he feels irritated. The reason does not solely depend on the fact that, in his opinion, the news given to the public is often rather inaccurate or centred on secondary aspects, sometimes even distorted. There is actually something more? Something deeper that the scientist can hardly grasp.
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Focus
Scientists to the streets. Science, politics and the public moving towards new osmoses
What may be defined as the "standard model" of the public communication of science began to develop in the second half of the nineteenth century, gained a clear structure (especially in an Anglo-Saxon context) in the first three decades of the twentieth century and dominated until the nineties. Roughly speaking, the model tends to describe science as a compact social (and epistemic) corpus, largely separated from the rest of society by a type of semipermeable membrane. That is, information and actions can flow freely from science to the rest of society (through the application of technologies and the spread of scientific culture, for instance), but much more limitedly in the opposite direction (through science politics or the influence of sociocultural events on science itself).
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Commentary
Molecular nomenclature
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Article
Language and terms to communicate mathematics
Popularising mathematics requires a preliminary reflection on language and terms, the choice of which results from underlying dynamics. The aim of this article is to start an overall analysis of the conditions influencing this linguistic choice.
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Article
Telling time
According to Einstein's renowned declaration, for those who believe in physics or, more precisely, in its capability to offer a "scientific" representation of the world the distinction between present, past and future is just "an illusion, though obstinate". If we consider an effective analogy by Mauro Dorato, we can state that those who agree with the famous German scientist will recognize in the present, past and future a relationship very similar to that between "here" and "somewhere else" in other words, the present is just a located moment and has no privileged status.
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Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Focus
Why science is hunting for an audience: the reasons of Italian researchers
"We can only appeal to society, considering that governments and parties have fallen constantly short of expectations since the late eighties. The public must know that without research there is no innovation, and without innovation there is no state-of-theart. The lack of research is a handicap for the development of the country". The words of Silvio Garattini, director of Milan's Mario Negri Institute, reveal rage and passion. This is how he explained the reasons why more than one year ago 1,500 Italian scientists made an unprecedented, resolute and unmediated appeal to the general public to back research in Italy.
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Article
Labanotation: a universal movement notation language
This paper describes how a universal language for notating dance and, more generally, movement was elaborated, known as "Kinetography Laban", or rather "Labanotation". It was devised by choreographer and movement theorist Rudolf von Laban, who outlined it for the first time in 1928, in the journal Schrifttanz. His system differs from precedent notation systems in that Labanotation is rigorous and universal, as it is based not on one particular style or technique but on the general
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Date of publication Mar 21, 2002 Category: Commentary
Eight points about science communication
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