Scientists and the public diverge in a changing world
Derek Price of Yale examines the widening gap between technical elites and the general public in a Course by Newspaper piece. He traces technology's rise, from Mesopotamian math to the Printing Revolution and Scientific Revolution, and how readers and writers formed a new scientific press and elite.
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Derek Price
History of Science
Yale University
University Extension
University of California
San Diego
National Endowment For the Humanities
PBS
Mesopotamia
Galileo
Jupiter
Derek de Solla Price
Avalon
The Reach of Technology Across Society
The piece traces how rapid knowledge growth from the 18th to 20th centuries strained non scientists, spurred encyclopedias and patents, and linked national wealth to high technologies. It notes worker unrest like the Luddites reemerging against modern tech such as nuclear reactors and genetic engineering.
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England
Galvani
Volta
Iran
Enrollment open for Gazette Courses by Newspaper series
The Gazette offers a fall program titled Connections Technology and Change with options for college credit or not through Kirkwood Community College the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. Kirkwood offers three credit hours tuition 43.05 course 03684 registration by Sept. 28. UI lists 75 199 tuition 108 deadline Oct. 5. ISU lists TSC 340X tuition 69 deadline Oct. 5. Registration via mailed coupon and payment to respective addresses. A 10 week TV series Connections starts Sept 30 on IPTV.
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Joseph C. Gies
University of California
National Endowment For the Humanities
Distributing Agency
the Gazette
Kirkwood Community College
University of Iowa
Iowa State University
Kirkwood
Iowa State
U of I. Kirkwood
East Hall
Iowa City
TSC
Office of
Scheman Building
Isa
Ames
Iowa Public Broadcasting Network
The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Reactor risks loom at mid desert breeder site
The article weighs dangers of a breeder reactor at a desert test facility, noting potential core melt, a nuclear explosion, and wide Pacific Northwest contamination. Experts including Dr. Thomas Cochran warn safety gaps. DOE and NRC assess containment, tornado hardening, and lessons from EBR I and Fermi I. Project costs soar beyond billion, with tens of millions yearly in fuel.
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Pacific Northwest
Tamplin
National Resources Defense Council
Thomas Cochran
Cochran
Regulatory Commission
Energy Department
Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Three Mile Island
James Lyman
Department of Energy
Westinghouse Corp
Westinghouse Hanford Co
Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory
Westinghouse
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Idaho
Idaho Desert
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Detroit Edison
Fermi
DOE
Clinch River
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