EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR E CULTURA POPULAR: retomando o debate (EDITORIAL)

Popular cloning versus scientific cloning in ethical debate.

From the moment the Roslin Institute announced Dolly’s birth1, the potential for human cloning elicited worldwide attention, condemnation, and fear.2 In the remarks that follow, I argue that much of the fear and condemnation derives from the very different connotations that society and scientists attribute to the word “clone.” Popular conceptions of cloning consist of pure science fiction and p...

Popular ' E - club ' attracts variety of majors

Attendance policies may grow stricter this semester following a letter from University Provost Thomas Burish reminding pro­ fessors th a t s tu d e n ts a re not a llow ed th re e u n ex cu sed absences. “Contrary to common student lore, there is no University policy p e rm it t in g s tu d e n ts ... th re e unexcused absences from class without consequences,” Burish said in the letter, which ...

Popular and Clan-Popular b-Matchings

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties, and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of houses/agents (respectively) that can be matched to him/her/it. We want to find a matching M , called popular, for which there is no other matching M ′ such that more agents prefer M ′ to M than M to M ′, sub...

Popular astronomy.

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

"popular" Science.