"Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals, and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science - originally used as a synonym for general knowledge - became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the hi…
"Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals, and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science - originally used as a synonym for general knowledge - became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the hi…
Science news is met by the public with a mixture of fascination and disengagement. On the one hand, Americans are inflamed by topics ranging from the question of whether or not Pluto is a planet to the ethics of stem-cell research. But on the other hand, the complexity of scient…