One rarely gets a chance, when talking of innovations in the very mature steel industry, to slip in such recent fields such as:A. Biomimicry, ‘Learning from Nature’, whereby scientific and engineering innovations are inspired by performances and functionalities observed in Nature, its ..
This post is not about the latest, much reported innovation: "Metaklett" hook and loop fasteners or steel "velcro™ ", steel that grips you. I'll post on that later. Image opposite.It is about the latest links which I have added to my "Materials Science and Engineering Defined" pages, ..
To quote the recent Nature Editorial that I blogged ,"The public reception of scientific ideas depends largely on two factors: 1. people's ability to grasp factual information and 2. the cultural lens through which that information is filtered."Admittedly factual data is in no short supply from ..
Science and scientists in Victorian and Edwardian literary novels: insights into the emergence of a new profession, Public Understand. Sci. 16 (2007) 205–222 comes as good reminder of, who the authors of the time were, and, of their efforts and those of the literary world to bring Science to ..
"The public reception of scientific ideas depends largely on two factors: people's ability to grasp factual information and the cultural lens through which that information is filtered. The former is what scientists tend to focus on when they give popular accounts of issues such as climate ..