Nature immaginate is a book consecrated to the way in which we imagine the world described by science, from Galileo’s moon drawings to Frankestein’s monster by Mary Shelley. With 250 pictures and color illustrations, Massimiano Bucchi (professor of Sociology of Science and Science Communication at University of Trento) and Elena Canadelli (grant researcher at University of…
BioEconomyUtrecht2016, April 12-13 2016 – the fourth BioEconomy Stakeholders’ Conference will be held on 12 & 13 April 2016, under the auspices of the Dutch EU Presidency. This high – level European meeting is co-organised by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and by the European Commission. The conference is a part of the European Bioeconomy Strategy and…
SIMPOSI: Talks and Tastes on four dionysian themes. From 7th November, Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. Concomitantly with the exhibit Dioniso. Mito, rito e teatro nelle ceramiche attiche e magnogreche dalla collezione Intesa Sanpaolo (presented by Le Gallerie d’Italia – Palazzo Leoni Montanari), at Palazzo Montanari will take place a cycle of meetings dedicated to the four…
Much attention is paid to public attitudes to science. But how much do we think about scientists’ attitudes towards the public? For members of a profession that thrives on evidence, scientists — and those who communicate, advocate and lobby for science — too frequently rely on incorrect assumptions. Scientists often believe that the public thinks…
On the 6th of August, at Muse, the Science Museum of Trento, it was held the reading “Il Diavolo non gioca a dadi, dedicated to the atomic bomb. Massimiano Bucchi, with the musical accompaniment by Arturo Stàlteri, told the story of the Manhattan Project, till the Hiroshima explosion. The ebook, published within the series I corsivi of “Il Corriere della…
by Carlos Elías Pérez and Jesús Zamora Bonilla 1. Science, Persuasion, and Rhetoric: The Argumentation Model In this article, we argue that the communication of science in mass media operates as a kind of ‘soft’ or ‘lite’ version of scientific papers. Such common occurrences result in a significant misunderstanding of science. In order to explain…
An extract from the book Galileo & Harry Potter. La magia può aiutare la scienza? (Roma, Carocci editore, 2014), written by Marco Ciardi, professor of History of Science at University of Bologna. Galileo e gli altri protagonisti della rivoluzione scientifica furono pressoché concordi nel denunciare i rischi presenti nella concezione di un sapere che, come quello magico,…
In 2015 it will be thirty years since the Royal Society published itsPublic Understanding of Science report, which sounded alarm bells for the scientific community with regards to its relationship with the general public. Nearly three decades later, there is hardly any doubt that science communication efforts aimed at non-expert audiences have increased in quantity and…
8 and 9 June 2015, Guilford – University of Surrey UK European Workshop. Designing Law for Nutrition-Related Health Is EU Legislation Adequate to Support Nutrition and Health?A Multidisciplinary Assessment of Styles of Regulation in Food Law Within the Workshop Giuseppe Pellegrini will propose the speech: Debating the future of food innovation and legislation trough inclusion,…