Posted By Emma Woods
on 14 February, 2011
On the back of my previous post (Atmosphere: exploring climate science…), which raised questions about the value of science in a social vacuum, I’ve been thinking more about the space occupied by science in society.
As a science graduate myself, I’ve always favoured scientific research for scientific research’s sake. Many of the natural sciences’ most pragmatic societal applications have been the outcome not of applied, but rather of pure, scientific research. An obvious example would be Faraday’s curiosity-driven experiments on electricity, which into the bargain led to the electric light replacing the candle in our everyday lives.
So far, so …
Posted By Emma Woods
on 7 February, 2011
With Paper Four (Climate Change: an overview of science, scenarios, projected impacts and links to democracy) in our project on The Future of Democracy in the Face of Climate Change posted to the FDSD website, Halina (FDSD’s Director) and I decided to reward our hard work with a trip to the Science Museum and its new Atmosphere gallery.
How has London’s famous Science Museum gone about communicating climate science to its visitors?
In our own work, Paper Four aims to uncover links between the current state of climate science on one hand, and democracy on the other. As with …
