exposé du 23 juin 2010 au Club d’histoire de la chimie HOUILLE BLANCHE ET ÉLECTROCHIMIE ALPINES J’explicite d’entrée de jeu les raisons personnelles qui m’incitèrent…
A scientist and a writer
A scientist and a writer
exposé du 23 juin 2010 au Club d’histoire de la chimie HOUILLE BLANCHE ET ÉLECTROCHIMIE ALPINES J’explicite d’entrée de jeu les raisons personnelles qui m’incitèrent…
Pierre Laszlo*, Ecole polytechnique and University of Liège At the very beginning of the sixteenth century, Johann Wimpheling published in Strassburg De Integritate Libellus. This…
This workshop is meant mainly for scientists, having some experience already addressing the public through media channels and wishing to further hone their skills. The…
Science communication targets, outside the scientific community, the general public. These are the main goals: Improve the understanding of science, and thereby increase support by…
This original art form began with the shipping of citrus fruit from California to the rest of the United States. And Florida followed suit. During…
The playful element in science, a given for many of its practitioners, is too seldom studied by psychologists, sociologists, historians and philosophers. This paper, by considering topics such as: the importance of play in the making of a scientist; experiments and modeling as play; or yet the referee report as cat-and-mouse play, will attempt (without undue seriousness) to identify a number of real issues regarding various narratives of science, the interplay between the personal and the social dimensions of play in particular.
This lecture will consider orange juice, not only as a drink, also as a commodity, as a chemical formulation, and as a cultural artifact. Some…
a play by Carl Djerassi and Pierre Laszlo
It is recognized universally that the gulf between the sciences and the other cultural worlds of the humanities and social sciences is increasingly widening and that any attempt to narrow it should be welcomed. “Pedagogic wordplays” constitute a novel attempt along those lines.
AT UNH OCT. 22 A French scholar who sees the world in a grain of salt will speak at the University of New Hampshire on…
We tend to take for granted this essential ingredient in our daily life. Yet, it has a rich history, as recent as Gandhi’s 1930 Salt…