Michael A. Rappenglück - The human face of science trends, challenges, and delight of communicating science in today’s highly complex cultures - Bucharest
The document discusses various challenges and strategies for effectively communicating science to the public. It argues that communicating science faces difficulties from political and economic pressures, but can inspire people by making scientific concepts tangible and relatable to human experiences. It also stresses the importance of balancing scientific rigor with accessibility and of involving both professional and amateur scientists in communication efforts.
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1. The Human Face of Science Trends, Challenges, and Delight of Communicating Science in Today’s Highly Complex Cultures 7.12.2010, Dr Michael A. Rappenglück MA Adult Education Centre & Observatory Gilching and INFIS
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6. Communicating the Concept of Science: Endeavours, Problems, and Dangers Communicating science faces the danger being liable to the pressure of political, economic, and even “scientific” lobbies. Communicating science with the aim to do justice to competing scientific claims faces serious problems .
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8. Going Back to the Roots: Anthropology and Communicating Science Curiosity, amazement, fascination, the joy of discovery, the pleasure of aesthetics, the passion to solve riddles, the appeal of mysteries, the coping with anxiety, and the final questions for the why and wherefore of the life and the world motivate people since ancient times to interpret the world by myths and to explain it by science. There are anthropological based reasons, which affect the mode of communicating science. Lengai Volcano by Martin Rietze / Auguste Rodin's The Thinker (1880-1881).
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10. Going Back to the Roots: Anthropology and Communicating Science Cryobrines on Mars? DLR Mars Express, 2010 People love to “travel” to strange places on Earth and in outer space, offered by science and powerful instruments. They are fascinated by bizarre features of nature compared with the standard of “normal” human life and everyday perceptions.
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15. Going Back to the Roots: Anthropology and Communicating Science People want to be charmed. It is a specific of our brain and our existence to create virtual worlds, which stimulate our fantasy and empower our creativity. It carries us off from the burden of ordinary life. It also enables us to see the world from different angles, which allows new solutions of old problems. Rooted in archaic psychological and anthropological patterns, which are handed down from prehistoric time by myths, fairy-tales, and magical rituals, the today’s enthusiasm for virtual worlds from Science Fictions to Second Life is quite understandable
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17. Going Back to the Roots: Anthropology and Communicating Science Jules Verne (19 th c.)
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20. Tetsuo Sato, Japan: Illustration of the ecliptic and the zodiacal belt. String Figure Magazine 6 (2), 2001: 11-15 Felix Paturi, Rodenbach, Germany: Andromeda Galaxy. String Figure Magazine 1 (3), 1996: 17-20). Yukio Shishido, Kyoto, Japan: Binary Stars String Figure Magazine 5 (1), 2000: 14-16. Stellar Bingo, Moon (Phades), Sun Bingo developed by Bingo, Lake Afton Public Observatory. “ Astronomy Cards" and "Moon Phases Cards” by Bingo Monopoly: Astronomy Edition Science Made “Tangible” and Virtual Worlds: Pros and Cons
22. Science Made “Tangible” and Virtual Worlds: Pros and Cons Frozen reality: explosion of a balloon Time-lapse of the vanishing lake Aral. Slow motion film of a water drop dripping into water.
23. Science Made “Tangible” and Virtual Worlds: Pros and Cons People can be attracted by making abstract science fleshliness that is “tangible”, by appealing and captivate all senses and imagination.
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25. The Quake-Catcher Network "Bringing Seismology to Homes and Schools." Science Made “Tangible” and Virtual Worlds: Pros and Cons Doing protein folding by the computer game Foldit. http://fold.it/portal/
26. Despite of the advantages of modern mass media, in particular web-based, there remains the power of “first-hand” experiences with science joining people in the process of research. The Challenge of Communicating Science: Inspiring People for Science
27. Adult Education Centre & Observatory, Gilching, Bavaria, Germany The Challenge of Communicating Science: Inspiring People for Science
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29. Thank you very much for listening! “ If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry Adult Education Centre & Observatory, Gilching, Bavaria, Germany
30. An actual example The bacteria GFAJ-1 survives with the help of arsenic. Felisa Wolfe-Simon et al. A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus, Science, 2 December 2010. These news at once made it to be the headlines on everyday newspapers.
Editor's Notes
As shown, web-based media have their pros for communicating science, but they also have their cons: The overflow and rapid dynamic change of information with scientific content, pushed and accelerated especially by the internet, makes it difficult to find out essential nexuses and core statements. It requires a person already trained in speech comprehension (preferably in different languages), categorizing, methods of search, abstract thinking, knowing of the criteria for systematic scientific evaluation, and first-hand experiences in the real world. Otherwise a loss of quality by pure chaotic quantity may appear. Thus communicating science needs digest, selection of the necessary media and information channels, concentration, balancing of competing views, and the evaluation of the material. Developed Projects Astronomy MilkyWay@Home — uses data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to deduce the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. SETI@home — Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence Biology Docking@Home — models protein-ligand docking. Folding@home — performs computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). Malaria@Home [1] — performs stochastic modeling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria. POEM@Home — models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma. Rosetta@home — tests the assembly of specific proteins, using appropriate fragments of better-known proteins. SIMAP — compiles a database of protein similarities using the FASTA algorithm, and protein domains using InterPro. Earth Sciences Climateprediction.net — attempts to reduce the uncertainty ranges of climate models. Quake-Catcher Network — uses accelerometers in, or attached to, internet-connected computers to detect earthquakes. Mathematics ABC@Home — attempts to solve the ABC conjecture problem. PrimeGrid — various prime number related projects, including a collaborative effort with Seventeen or Bust. SZTAKI Desktop Grid — searches for generalized binary number systems. Medicine Malaria Control — performs stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria. Physics AQUA@home — uses Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. Einstein@Home — uses data from LIGO and GEO 600 to search for gravitational waves. QMC@Home — uses Quantum Monte Carlo to predict molecular geometry. Developed Projects Multi-Applications Projects Ibercivis — studies nuclear fusion, materials science, neurodegenerative diseases caused by amyloid accumulation, the effect of light on nanomaterials, fluid mechanics, macromolecular docking, and the function of proteins in memory and learning. World Community Grid - studies a variety of problems in biology, medicine and the environment. Clean Energy Project — tries to find the best organic compounds for solar cells and energy storage devices.Phase 1 has been completed.Phase 2 has started. FightAIDS@Home — identifies candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease. Help Conquer Cancer — improves the results of protein X-ray crystallography in order to increase understanding of cancer and its treatment. Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy — investigates protein-protein interactions for more than 2,200 proteins whose structures are known, with a particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases.Currently on Phase 2. Help Fight Childhood Cancer — finds drugs that can disable three particular proteins associated with neuroblastoma. Human Proteome Folding Project — studies proteome folding in conjunction with Rosetta@home.Currently on Phase 2. Influenza Antiviral Drug Search — finds drugs that can stop the spread of influenza strains that have become drug resistant as well as new strains. Phase 1 has been completed and Phase 2 will start soon. Nutritious Rice for the World — tries to predict the protein structure of rice in order to help rice breeders create more abundant, resilient and nutritious harvests.Finished in April 2010