Friday, October 27, 2006

Next week...

...we will continue our discussion of contemporary science journalism, looking in more detail at specific examples - so please bring along a few articles!

We also hope to begin our exploration of J. G. Crowther: copies of the following texts are now available in the Science and Literature Reading Group box file in the Whipple Library; originals can be found in the Cambridge University Library. If you're short of time, then concentrate on the short autobiographical chapter (we'll discuss the rest in November).

-Chapter four of Crowther's autobiography, Fifty Years with Science (1970), '1927-1928: Inventing Science Journalism'.

-The DNB article on Crowther by Jane Gregory, available here.

-Chapter one of The Progress of Science (1934), 'The Cavendish Laboratory'.

-Chapter two of Science Unfolds the Future (1955), 'Beyond the Earth'.

-Chapter twenty two of Soviet Science (1935), 'The Lenin Academy of Agricultural Science'.

We look forward to seeing you at Darwin College at 7.30pm!

Katy and Melanie

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have no idea how to add a post nor have anyone's email...But, there's an article about the Darwin archive with regard to history in the recent edition of nature. There was some discussion of the darwin web phenomena at the last meeting.

19 Oct 2006, V.443, p.746

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061016/pdf/443746a.pdf

charlie (ct320)

Anonymous said...

I have no idea how to add a post nor have anyone's email...But, there's an article about the Darwin archive with regard to history in the recent edition of nature. There was some discussion of the darwin web phenomena at the last meeting.

19 Oct 2006, V.443, p.746

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061016/pdf/443746a.pdf

charlie (ct320)

Anonymous said...

Richard Dawkins on the Colbert Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXpysYEhgA