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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"popular science"”.

  1. Industrialised conversion : the Religious Tract Society and popular science publishing in Victorian Britain

    Fyfe, Aileen KennedyUniversity of Cambridge2000

    cambridge Repository record

  2. Extracting terms from an English-Greek popular science parallel corpus for translation teaching purposes

    Matsira, MariaUniversity of Birmingham2008

    … compilation and analysis of a parallel corpus of popular science texts, i.e. articles appearing in a wide circulation popular science magazine and their translations. The stimulus of the research is translation teachers’ regular practice of using articles of this genre as teaching material. The …

    birmingham Repository record

  3. Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1811–43: Richard Carlile and Infidel Materialism

    Carter, EoinUniversity of Cambridge2024

    This thesis examines the position of science in the thought and political agitation of the freethought campaigner and radical publisher Richard Carlile (1790–1843). Carlile was one of the most high-profile political prisoners in nineteenth-century Britain, serving over a decade in prison across the …

    cambridge Repository record

  4. "It is written": representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction

    Smith, Bradon T LUniversity of Cambridge2011

    … the representation of two broad fields of science – the new physics (relativity and quantum mechanics) and the modern biological synthesis (genetics and evolutionary theory) – in two genres of writing – popular science writing and narrative fiction. Specifically, I consider the …

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  5. Science on Youtube (that we know of) : an exploration of the new media environment of Youtube and its effects on popular science communication videos

    Murphy, A.S.2025

    tilburg Repository record

  6. Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing

    Thoradeniya, Gayani Sanjeewa RanawakeUNSW, Sydney2022

    … writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the sciences by providing a better understanding of genre conventions and effective linguistic choices. The second aim is to investigate whether there are …

    unsw Repository record

  7. The Social Role of Popularized Science

    Ross, Derek GilbertVirginia Tech2004

    In this thesis I will argue that popularized science books should adhere to normative criteria regarding the presentation, interpretation, and understanding of the natural sciences. The increasing popularity of popular science texts (PSTs) - based on sales, critical notice, and scholarly attention …

    vt Repository record

  8. The Celebrity Scientists

    Fahy, DeclanDublin City University2010

    … how four contemporary British scientists and popular science writers, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Susan Greenfield and James Lovelock, are portrayed in mass media as celebrities. It finds that the scientists’ private and public lives merge in their representations, their images …

    dcu Repository record

  9. Carnisaurs and Capital: Assertion and Preservation of Hegemony in the Novels of Michael Crichton

    Sewell, William Christopher

    … Crichton's novels have achieved tremendous popularity over the past three decades, the state of critical examination has stagnated. At present only a handful of publications, including a flawed book-length study, illuminates an author who conceived the popular science fiction sub-genre, the …

    mo-state Repository record

  10. Komentovaný překlad: SIEGLE, Lucy: Turning the Tide on Plastic. How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again. London: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2018, str. 7-36.

    Pěnkavová, KláraUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta2023

    … Make Our Globe Clean Again and a commentary. A popular science text concerned with the plastic pandemic and helping readers reduce their plastic footprint, the book was written by British journalist and environmentalist Lucy Siegle and published by The Orion Publishing Group in 2018. The thesis …

    charles-prague Repository record

  11. Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist

    Wargen, J.University of Westminster2013

    … fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered in addition to fictional creations. Firstly, the research explores women such …

    westminster Repository record

  12. Reaching for the Stars : Studies in the History of Swedish Stellar and Nebular Astronomy, 1860–1940

    Holmberg, GustavHistory of Science and Ideas1999

    … publications on the history of astronomy and popular science.

    lund Repository record

  13. Modeling and simulation of micro/nano-rod distribution in micro channel flows

    Monjezi, SamanMissouri University of Science and Technology

    … field was studied. COMSOL Multiphysics®, a popular science and engineering simulation software based on the finite element method, was used to perform the bead-spring dynamic simulation of the semi-flexible chain. The simulation results for DNA migration in an array of entropic traps were …

    must-thes Repository record

  14. From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics

    Derrell, AnnaUniversity of Missouri--Kansas City2021

    … fads of the 1920s? It was accepted not only as science, but popular science, science made for mass consumption by the public. Through the lens of four biographical essays, this dissertation traces the journey and transformation of eugenics by telling the stories of four men who helped create it, …

    umkc Repository record

  15. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics: An assessment of its fitness for use in Christian theology and apologetics

    Howard, Jeremy RoyalSouthern Baptist Theological Seminary2005

    … Chapter 3 examines how scholars and popular-science writers have applied the Copenhagen doctrines to sociology, philosophy, and science. Topics include feminism, race relations, finance, business management, philosophy of science, epistemology, logic, and the sciences of consciousness …

    sbts Repository record

  16. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN IDENTITIES AND HUMANATURE IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE (1903-1952)

    Pérez-Marín, Mónica

    … assumptions of neutrality and objectivity in popular science journalism by investigating how representations of Colombian identities and humanature in National Geographic Magazine between 1903 and 1952 create social knowledge and power in the context of the U.S.-Colombia relations. The …

    unm Repository record

  17. We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age

    Spivey, Hudson Douglas

    … in calling for a ratification of this new name. Popular science writers like Emma Marris and Mark Lynas have also celebrated the dawn of “The Age of Humans,” claiming that it legitimizes a much deeper technological intervention by humans in the life systems of the planet. This thesis analyzes the …

    montana-tech Repository record

  18. We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age

    Spivey, Hudson Douglas

    … in calling for a ratification of this new name. Popular science writers like Emma Marris and Mark Lynas have also celebrated the dawn of “The Age of Humans,” claiming that it legitimizes a much deeper technological intervention by humans in the life systems of the planet. This thesis analyzes the …

    montana Repository record

  19. From erewhon to nowhere: the impact of science on late-Victorian science fiction

    Hagan, KerryUniversity of Central Lancashire2004

    … as follows: • To investigate how late Victorian science fiction texts emerged in a period of dynamic epistemological change • To critique how representations of science were appropriated and naturalised in late Victorian science fiction texts. • To undertake a intertextual reading of late …

    cent-lancashire Repository record

  20. The legitimation of science in the early German enlightenment Leipzig, ca. 1687-1750

    Rogers, Moira R.Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1997

    The legitimation of science as the most authoritative form of human knowledge is the result of complex literary and socio-political processes. In the course of the eighteenth century, lay people came to see science as an authority beyond criticism, whose norms are value-neutral, self-evident and …

    vt Repository record

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