Popular science

Andrei Sakharov was born in Moscow, Russia, to a family of the intelligentsia on May 21, 1921. His father, Dmitri, taught college physics and wrote textbooks and popular science books. Sakharov studied at home until the seventh grade. Dmitri, a man of warmth and culture, was his first physics teacher. 

Refs 1) V. Torrey, Popular Science (May 1945), 103 2) Anon, Chemlndustries (July 1945),... 

This question, which freezes first, hot water or cold water, is a favorite of popular science magazines. This discussion is taken from the web site http //math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot water.html. Sir Francis Bacon, Descartes and even Aristotle are said to have remarked on it. There are five factors that can make the hot water freeze faster than expected. 

Some Recent Transmutations. Popular Science Monthly 72 1 (January... 

Most recently, Laidler published Energy and the Unexpected, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. This book falls more readily into the popular science genre, but it does have a historical emphasis. 

A slightly different approach will be found in Mark Kurlansky s fascinating book Salt A World History, Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2002, which is more than a popular science book, and will be enjoyed as well as being informative. 

Behar, Michael, "Warning the Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears," Popular Science, Volume 266 Number 1, January 2005, pp. 65-68. 

Schneider, Stephen Henry, Global Warming, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1989. Schueller, Gretel H., "For the Earth, the Heat Is One." Popular Science, Volume 266, pp. 52-53, January 2005. 

Hy-wire was awarded Time Magazine Coolest Invention 2002 Award and AUTOnomy was ranked by Popular Science as the breakthrough automotive technology of the year in the Best Of What s New issue. Hy-wire was the world s first drivable vehicle that combined a hydrogen fuel cell with by-wire technology. 

Science writers, working for magazines such as Science News and Popular Science, translate discoveries reported in journal articles (written for expert audiences)... 

We conclude this chapter and module with a brief look at titles, often the last part of a journal article to be written. The title of a journal article must be as concise, specific, and informative as possible. Also, because the title is written for an expert audience, the title should be formal. Although an informal, catchy title is appropriate in many genres (e.g., in newspaper headlines and popular science articles), it is inappropriate in a journal article. 

When only twenty-four years old, Roscoe succeeded Edward Frank-land as professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester. In the winter of 1862, when thousands of employees in the cotton mills of Lancashire were thrown out of work because of the Civil War in America, Roscoe, in an effort to relieve the mental depression of the unemployed, instituted a series of popular Science Lectures for the People. Roscoe, John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, and other noted scientists addressed large and appreciative audiences each week for eleven consecutive winters, and the printed lectures were afterward sold for a penny all over the world... 

While studying at Heidelberg, Sir Edward Thorpe read in a French periodical on popular science that the Copley Medal had been awarded to Sir Henry E. Roscoe. His letter of congratulation brought the following reply ... 

For decades, there have been many popular science books and science-fiction novels on the subject of the fourth dimension. My favorite science book on the subject is Rudy Rucker s The Fourth Dimension, which covers an array of topics on space and time. My favorite science-fiction story is Robert Hein-lein s — And He Built a Crooked House, first published in 1940. It tells the tale of a California architect who constructs a four-dimensional house. He explains that a four-dimensional house would have certain advantages ... 

Krishnamurthi, M. (1989) Satellites, Monograph under DRDO s Popular Science and Technology Series, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, India. 

Binns, Corey. Medicating Rover. Popular Science 271, no. 5 (November... 

Young Lavoisier followed in his father s footsteps, and in 1763, at the age of twenty, he became a lawyer. But it wasn t the law that captured Antoine s imagination, it was a popular-science lecture. A friend dragged him to the Jardin du Roi in Paris to watch the antics of scientific lecturer par excellence, Francois Rouelle. Lavoisier was absolutely mystified by the smoke, the flames, and the smells that highlighted the presentation. Chemistry, he realized, was his calling. Within a year Lavoisier had produced a scholarly paper on plaster of Paris and had helped to make a geological map of France. His scien-... 

Good nontechnical, nonfiction writing can provide a model for exposition. Well-written history and biography (e.g., works by H. W. Brand, Martin Gilbert, Paul Johnson, and William Manchester) are useful for learning to handle time and sequence. Well-written popular science books and novels (e.g., by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Michael Crichton, Steven Levy, and James Gleick) are useful in learning that the presentation of factual information need not be dull. 

Basil Valentine, a 17th Century Hoax. (Popular Science Monthly)... 

When Liebig took chemistry to the people, he did it not only through his writings in popular science but also through advertising products that were nutritionally sound. 

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