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Enrico Drioli and Development of Membrane Science in Russia

A Visit to the Tsukuba Science Exposition

Tsukuba Expo ‘85 is huge, interesting, and fun. The Japanese pavilions are plush and well-organized, and contain some impressive artificial intelligence demonstrations. The U.S. pavilion is an embarrassment. Tsukuba Expo ‘85 opened on March 17,1985, to enormous publicity. The New York Times reported that “the budget for the fair is more than $2 billion, and individual companies have spent large...

Help Wanted: Science Manager

Feature Open access, freely available online " I didn't want to be just another MBA, " says Pascal Herzer, one of the fi rst recipients of a new graduate credential known as the professional science master's, or PSM. " Not many people have the ability to understand science and business, and [the PSM] program was designed for that very purpose. " PSMs are two-year American master's degrees fi na...

How Scientists Can Help Foster Science Appreciation

In the last issue of The Scienfi.st, Morris H. Shames, emeritus professor of physics at New York University, cast a cold eye on the concept of scientific literacy. He argued that a more reasonable goal in educating nonscientists about science might be science appreciation. Like music and art appreciation, science appreciation might be fostered without requiring the mastery of technical details ...

Philosophy of Science : Help or Hindrance ? 1

—Scientists routinely employ metatheoretic principles, explicit discussion of which typically occurs in times of intense controversy, theoretical crisis, scientific revolution, and entry into a new domain. The writings of philosophers, including their disagreements, are often helpful in such circumstances. Whether knowledge of formal metatheory helps us in doing “normal science” is researchable...