Latest ArticlesThe name of “Scientific Romance” (Ke Xue Xiao Shuo) was introduced into China from Japan in 20th century. Before the advent of the word “Science”, “Ge Zhi” basically referred to the meaning of science and technology. But there was “Scientific Romance”, almost no “Ge Zhi Novel”. By studying the origin of late Qing “Scientific Romance”, we can not only understand people’s opinions and expectations of “Scientific Romance”, but also restore the multi-faceted history, and thus have a more specific understanding of the situation of early Chinese Science Fiction.
Science popularization events haved played an important role in promoting Chinese people’s scientific literacy. An event of “2010 National Science Day in ” was evaluated as an example. The performance improvement and sustainability of science popularization events may depend on the evaluation of effectiveness partly.
This survey was conducted during the science popularization exhibition which was held in Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen Municipality and CAS to commemorate the World Environment Day of 2009. The results of 800 questionnaires showed that most visitors’ education background is at higher level, the participation of men and women is almost equal; most of them are between 21 and 30 years old. Nearly half of the visitors were active to understand knowledge about environmental protection, visitors were satisfied with the exhibition. It meeted the visitors’ need for both entertaining and learning. To carefully consider the exhibition’s theme, publicity, content, form and objects is the key issue to a good science popularization exhibition.
Arctic and Antarctic regions attract human beings for exploration, expedition and tourism owing to their inherent values in science, environment, aesthetics and wildness. This provides the best opportunities for polar science’s education and outreach. The objective, feature and concept of China’s polar education and outreach program were outlined and analyzed. The reviews on the key polar education and outreach projects during 2007-2008 International Polar Year was performed with perspective on their contents, organizations and achievements and contributions. Their features were very obvious: longtime-range, key theme, optimum resource integration, wider cooperation, great influence and significance. Meanwhile, some of new ideas or suggestions on China’s polar education and outreach in the future are addressed, with reference on the good practice.
People are used to fast reading nowadays. It has been a trend in science popularization that motivating public’s aspiration to scientific knowledge. ACG is one of some good approaches for science popularization in terms of popularity, accessibility and big coverage of audience. The integration between science popularization and ACG would be a new focus for some related industry development in the era of ubiquitous net and multi-screen.
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