Dr. O. P. Sharma Honoured with the Prestigious National Award “Atmaram Puraskar” by the Hon’ble President of India

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Editorial Board
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Physics Education ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Automated Assignment ◽  
College Level ◽  
Generation System ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
Science Magazine

While working at IGNOU, Dr. O. P. Sharma has developed a number of innovative & technology enabled learning and support solutions using the newer technologies which includes On-Demand Examination, e-Test, Science @Mobile, e-Resource of Experts, Digital Question Bank, Automated Assignment Generation System, etc. At the same time he has a passion for science popularization in the society. He has contributed more than hundred popular science articles and papers for various magazines, newspapers, web sites, conferences, seminars and books. Since 2001 as Chief Editor he is bringing out a popular science magazine ‘Vigyan Apke Liye’ in Hindi. He has also authored several popular science books. He is very actively working towards promoting physics education both at school and college level as the President of Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), RC-1. For popularization of science and Technology through ICT, he has also developed a web portal ‘World of Science’ www. worldofscience.in.

scholarly journals Meccano Magazine: boys’ toys and the popularization of science in early twentieth-century Britain

BJHS Themes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
PETER J. BOWLER
Keyword(s):  
Life Science ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Science Writer ◽  
Science Magazine ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMeccano Magazine began publishing in 1916 to advertise the popular children's construction set. By the 1920s it had expanded into a substantial, well-illustrated monthly that eventually achieved a circulation of seventy thousand. Under the editorship of the popular-science writer Ellison Hawks it now devoted approximately half of its pages to real-life technology and some natural science. In effect, it became a popular-science magazine aimed at teenage and pre-teen boys. This article explores Hawks's strategy of exploiting interest in model building to encourage interest in science and technology. It surveys the contents of the magazine and shows how it developed over time. It is argued that the material devoted to real-life science and technology was little different to that found in adult popular-science magazines of the period, raising the possibility that Meccano Magazine’s large circulation may explain the comparative lack of success of the adult publications.

Science literacy and Stem. Who is the boss?

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
M. M. Kiryukhin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Science Literacy ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Mandatory Requirement ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Century Science

Science literacy, science popularization and STEM were analyzed as the structural elements on popular science landscape. Author considers audience, tools and other specific features for each of these elements. Modified definitions are suggested for simplification of further analysis. It was shown that starting from 21st Century science literacy and science popularization can be considered as two separate elements with different objectives and different audience. One more conclusion is the following. Public funding is the mandatory requirement for sustainable development of science literacy. The joint project was proposed for acceleration of World Organization on Science Literacy creation. The essence of this project is to create, print and distribute joint textbook “Create yourself by use your own tale” for increasing children creativity. The book should be adapted to the features of up to 10 countries.

scholarly journals Contemporary methodology of teaching English punctuation: problems and new vistas

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
E. V. Mikhailovskaia ◽  
O. V. Sapunova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English System ◽  
Syntactic Function ◽  
The Way

The article outlines the way the English system of punctuation marks is presented in contemporary ELT research and practice. The following types of sources are considered and analyzed in the article: grammar books for teaching English as the first, second or foreign language; reference books and web-sites aimed at preparing students for IELTS and TOEFL; books belonging to the genre known as popular science; purely scientific works on punctuation in general and the semicolon in particular. The main goals of the research are to reveal the central tendencies in teaching English punctuation on the example of the so-called weighty stops of vertical segmentation, namely the semicolon, and to see whether they manage to present a certain norm of using the stop. Thus, the present paper focuses on the semicolon one of the most controversial stops in the system, which has been proved to function both at the syntactic and stylistic levels. It is shown that a formal / grammatical approach is the most common way to treat punctuation in ELT literature; however, it does not take into account stylistic and prosodic peculiarities of the stops and thus fails to show the whole spectrum of its usage, as well as its phonetic and stylistic potential. Consequently, such an approach should not be applied to English one of the languages exhibiting a semantic-stylistic type of punctuation. It is proposed that the approach to be used in teaching English punctuation most effectively is pragmalinguistics, since it exploits a wide range of methods and means of analyzing a text, and also considers and highlights all the aspects of using the stops (their syntactic function, stylistic capacities and prosodic characteristics). Moreover, the article poses the question that the current methodology of the approach has to be further developed.

Quantum Schmuntum: Lights, Camera, Action!

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlatko Vedral
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Hair Loss ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Science Magazine

Spring 2005, whilst sitting at my desk in the physics department at Leeds University, marking yet more exam papers, I was interrupted by a phone call. Interruptions were not such a surprise at the time, a few weeks previously I had published an article on quantum theory in the popular science magazine, New Scientist, and had since been inundated with all sorts of calls from the public. Most callers were very enthusiastic, clearly demonstrating a healthy appetite for more information on this fascinating topic, albeit occasionally one or two either hadn’t read the article, or perhaps had read into it a little too much. Comments ranging from ‘Can quantum mechanics help prevent my hair loss?’ to someone telling me that they had met their twin brother in a parallel Universe, were par for the course, and I was getting a couple of such questions each day. At Oxford we used to have a board for the most creative questions, especially the ones that clearly demonstrated the person had grasped some of the principles very well, but had then taken them to an extreme, and often, unbeknown to them, had violated several other physical laws on the way. Such questions served to remind us of the responsibility we had in communicating science – to make it clear and approachable but yet to be pragmatic. As a colleague of mine often said – sometimes working with a little physics can be more dangerous than working with none at all. ‘Hello Professor Vedral, my name is Jon Spooner, I’m a theatre director and I am putting together a play on quantum theory’, said the voice as I picked up the phone. ‘I am weaving elements of quantum theory into the play and we want you as a consultant to verify whether we are interpreting it accurately’. Totally stunned for at least a good couple of seconds, I asked myself, ‘This guy is doing what?’ Had I misheard? A play on quantum theory? Anyway it occurred to me that there might be an appetite for something like this, given how successful the production of Copenhagen, a play by Michael Freyn, had been a few years back.

scholarly journals The Poetry of Genetics: On the Pitfalls of Popularizing Science

Hypatia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Anita L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Genome Project ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Unpublished Paper ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
Science Popularization ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Good Word ◽  
The Human Genome Project ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The role genetic inheritance plays in the way human beings look and behave is a question about the biology of human sexual reproduction, one that scientists connected with the Human Genome Project dashed to answer before the close of the twentieth century. This is also a question about politics, and, it turns out, poetry, because, as the example of Lucretius shows, poetry is an ancient tool for the popularization of science. “Popularization” is a good word for successful efforts to communicate elite science to non-scientists in non-technical languages and media. According to prominent sociobiologist E. O. Wilson, “sexual dominance is a human universal.” He meant, of course, that men dominate women. Like sociobiology, genetic science is freighted with politics, including gender politics. Scientists have gender perspectives that may color what they “see” in nature. As the late Susan Okin Miller suggested in an unpublished paper tracing the detrimental impact of Aristotle's teleology on Western thought, scientists accustomed to thinking that men naturally dominate women might interpret genetic discoveries accordingly. Biologists have good, scientific reasons to fight the effects of bias. One must be critical of how scientists and popularizers of science, like Genome author Matt Ridley, frame truth and theory. Ridley's “battle of the sexes” metaphor and others have a doubtful place in serious explanations of science.

scholarly journals Blickpunkt Wissenschaft. Einige Bemerkungen zur journalistischen Wissenschaftsvermittlung

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Magdalena Makowska
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Transfer Of Information ◽  
Science Magazine

Popular-science magazines occupy an important place amidst numerous areasof journalistic activity. Their aim is to convey scientific knowledge that is easily digestible and attractive in its form also when it comes to non-specialists. Authors of such texts facea difficult task of reconciling what is typically scientific with what is journalistic. The purpose of the article is a media-linguistic analysis of phenomena which constitute the journalistic transfer of scientific knowledge, taking place both in the verbal as well as visual sphere.The research corpus is based on the texts published in the Polish edition of the popular science magazine FOCUS. In the centre of research interest there are processes of hybridization and differentiation which are employed by authors of multimodal texts in order to optimizethe transfer of information.

scholarly journals Ukrainian Popular Science in Habsburg Galicia, 1900-14

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-171
Author(s):  
Martin Rohde
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
National Science

This paper historicizes the idea of “popular science” in the Ukrainian academic discourse in relation to contemporary approaches to “national science” (as “science proper”) and places special emphasis on the introduction of regular scientific lectures to public audiences in early twentieth century Habsburg Galicia. The Shevchenko Scientific Society was the central Ukrainian association of scholars and scientists at the time. Male-dominated, and increasingly dedicated to “Ukrainoznavstvo” (“Ukrainian studies”), the Shevchenko Scientific Society paid little attention to the popularization of scientific research. The Petro Mohyla Society for Ukrainian Scientific Lectures emerged in reaction to the Shevchenko Society. Its goal was to expand public awareness of the scientific work, and its members proceeded to organize regular public lectures all over Galicia between 1909 and 1914. This paper analyzes such popularization of science, propagated by the Petro Mohyla Society, and examines the lecture audiences with regard to their location, gender, and respective interests.

scholarly journals Sustaining The Progress To Improve Physics Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wathiq Abdul-Razzaq
Keyword(s):  
Physics Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Introductory Physics ◽  
College Level ◽  
West Virginia University ◽  
Physics Courses ◽  
Learn Physics ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
Introductory Physics Courses

One of the problems we face in teaching introductory physics courses at the college level is that about 2/3 of students never had physics prior coming to college.  Thus, many students find it very difficult to learn physics for the first time at the relatively fast-paced teaching of college physics courses.  Sometimes the drop/failure/withdrawal rate at West Virginia University is as high as 65% (~2/3) for the introductory physics courses taken mostly by pre-engineering students.  Obviously, there is a strong connection between the students’ physics backgrounds and the success rate of passing physics.  With the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, we created an intervention course for a small group of students who did poorly in the first test in one of the physics courses. This intervention course ran concurrently with the regular physics course, but started at the fourth week of class after the first test. Students who received our intervention showed significant improvement in the subsequent physics tests.1 The recruitment of the students and the supervision of the course were the result of a unique collaboration between the College of Engineering and the Physics Department.  After the expiration of the NSF grant, the intervention course was cancelled due to the lack of funds.  The labs associated with physics classes, however, give us the opportunity to continue the advancement of physics learning after the ending of the NSF grant.

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