Latest ArticlesThis paper mainly studies the biographies of influential scientists in the current domestic market. By filtering out the scientist biographies, the authors selected 50 most influential biographies, made preliminary comprehensive analysis and studies on current Chinese readers' preference to biographies of scientists, and are trying to look into the source of the influences.
The Chinese Progress was a significant publication during the period of the Reform Movement of 1898, which was vital to the reform started by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. It had the largest circulation and the hugest impact at the end of Qing dynasty. The Chinese Progress comprises not only Liang's articles, which was named “Liang's themes”, but plenty of translations. The translations split even with the political themes. Moreover, they included a large number of scientific and technological contents, which set the Chinese Progress in a position on propagating science and technology at the end of Qing dynasty, and helped Chinese people broaden their horizon. The Chinese Progress followed closely the progressive trend of science and technology of the time, demonstrated the influence of science and technology on all sides, such as society, medical treatment, agriculture, and so on, which facilitated the advancement of society. the Chinese Progress contributed a lot to “towards oriental spreading” of new science and technology. And now there are already many researches on the Chinese Progress, but most of them focus upon history, news communication and other liberal arts, and fewer upon science and technology. This paper attempts to begin from a cross-discipline perspective of liberal art and science to make an all-round and systematic research on the scientific translation of the Chinese Progress.
In the May Fourth Era, Science and other sci-tech journals played an important role in driving science to develop in China. As a significant form of science communication, the advertisements in Science journal were also a main element, which disseminated substantial knowledge and concepts in relation to science and technology. In that case, it's of great value to research the functions, especially the construction function of advertisements in Science journal. Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis, in this passage, we'll mainly discuss its important function in communicating science knowledge as well as science concepts, so that we can gather useful experience for the development of advertisements in sci-tech periodicals nowadays.
The rapid development of museums has greatly enriched the tourist resources; and the thriving demand for cultural tourism, on the other hand, has provided new opportunities and space for the development of museums. Based on the review of the functional evolution of museums, this paper, taking a tourist approach, explores the impacts of tourism on the functions of museums, advocates the idea that the core function for a museum is to educate, and taking the needs of tourists into consideration, expounds the leisure and learning orientation of the functions of museums.
A comprehensive training of young people should be completed in schools, families and society. This is the extensive education concept which is a breakthrough in time and space boundaries of educational resources. Therefore, in the cultivation of scientific literacy of the youth, after-school science education also plays a role as important as intramural science education. In implementing the Outline of Scientific Literacy and based on the extensive education concept, Suzhou Association for Science and Technology established cooperation mechanism in working with local government departments and social institutions, providing more extensive and efficient social resources to improve the youth scientific literacy.
British Science Festival, sponsored by the BAAS, is the United Kingdom and Europe's largest science festival. Its evaluation strategy is the most professional. BAAS attaches great importance to the effect evaluation, and conducts a comprehensive evaluation from a variety of angles, by using a variety of methods, in line with its pre-established goals of the extent of the effect of the British Science Festival. This article analyzes the pattern of British Science Festival Summative Evaluation and its inadequate points, and then puts forward some advices for the summative evaluation of the important science popularization activities in China, such as Science and Technology Week, Science Popularization Day.
As an important establishment of popular science education, science and technology museum now faces the challenge of making exploitation of its resources in its operation in order to innovate system and mechanism, create a modern efficient management pattern full of vigor, achieve scientific and sustainable development. Taking Guangxi Science & Technology Museum as an example, this article discusses on the functional orientation, financial guarantee, operating mode, marketing strategy, resource integration, cooperation and exchange of the museum and puts forward some innovative recommendations.
From the view of the history of parapsychology, mysticism is a worldwide phenomenon. So the research on the mysticism prevalence in Russia should be conducted by taking into consideration of the overall situation. The mysticism prevalence in Russia has close relationship with the disassociation of the former Soviet Union, the US-Soviet hegemony and the changes in the pattern of the world as well. This paper exposes all kinds of mysticism in former Soviet Union and Russia and makes some comparative study between them.
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