Latest ArticlesBeing the mainstay and foremost power of our country's scientific research, the national scientific institutes have very rich and special popular science resources to be explored. We choose one of these institutes-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science-to investigate its popular science resource situation, analyze the experiences and the problems existed, and try to give some suggestions on the resolve of them.
This article explores the history of the translation of popular science books in three stages as the author defined, the translations the missionaries did as they tried to introduce science and technology of the West to the governments in Ming and Qing dynasties (16-19centuries), translations developed by Chinese scientists and intellectuals by journals and big events as Einstein's trip to China and, the new boom of translation of books diversified in scientific culture from 1990's through to today.
The paper presents a brief review of the history of collaboration between CFI/Transtional and Chinese scholars, as well as the achievements both of the partners have made in the past two decades. Facing a series of global and serious issues and problems, the paper indicates it necessary to strengthen the worldwide cooperation.
This paper first analyzes the characteristics and rules of civic disaster. Based on the analysis of case of the survery on Beijing citizen's crisis consciousness, the paper considers that the civilians of Beijing have not got sufficient abilities against calamities and are not qualified to the requirements of "peaceful Beijing and safe Olympics". Therefore, the paper discusses and puts forward methods and policies which will be helpful to strengthen the culture of urban public safety education.
This article discusses the problems and shortages in the operation systems in Chinese science popularization infrastructure, such as the social funding systems, the macro management system on the national level, the management and control system in the infrastructure units, and the service standards of the infrastructure, etc.
This paper discusses the qualification and principles of benchmarks' content, and argues that in the process of establishing Chinese civil science literacy benchmarks, the national conditions must be considered.
The science popularization resource package of neutral water recycle in city was primarily designed by taking consideration of the designing principle, content and format. The package consists of lectures, visits, experiments and topic discussions by focusing on science popularization.
Science enriches the human knowledge and extremely enhances the ability of the human. Modern technology based on the discovery of natural science has provided the possibility to realize the desire of mankind for different purposes. It is possible to reach the better state of harmony of the human being. Three factors are composed in harmony of the humankind, including the harmony between the human and the nature, among the peoples, as well as in mentality. Science may provide hopeful help and enhance the rational foundation of harmony for them. It may happen that modern technology be abused to shake the foundation of the civilization. Calling for the intelligence of humanity and philosophy, and reconsidering the ultimate value of scientific research work and technological inventions are sacred responsibility of today.
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