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6 unusual facts about Popular science


Akira Fujii

He graduated from Tama Art University in 1961, and began working at observatories, producing a substantial bibliography of general-audience astronomy books.

Electrician and Mechanic

In October 1915 the title became Popular Science Monthly and the magazine is still published under that name today.

Experimenter Publishing

After a series of mergers and title changes the magazine became Popular Science Monthly in October 1915 and is still published today.

Popular Science

This company had purchased Electrician and Mechanic magazine in 1914 and over the next two years merged several magazines together into a science magazine for a general audience.

Striped killifish

In Feb 1916, Popular Science Monthly had a news article on research being done by Professor S. O. Mast of the zoological department of Johns Hopkins.

William Little Lee

His widow Catherine Newton traveled back to New York and in 1861 married Edward L. Youmans, the founder of Popular Science.


Alexander Leydenfrost

He continued to illustrate for Life throughout his career, in addition to other major magazines including Skyways, Liberty, Look, Popular Science and Esquire.

Arthur Hammerstein

He also was the producer of the film The Lottery Bride (1930), and made an appearance as himself in an episode of the film series Popular Science in 1949.

C.B. Colby

In 1943 he became aviation editor of Popular Science magazine and became a war correspondent with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Alaska.

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex is a 2002 popular science book by the British evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson written in the role of her alter ego, agony aunt Dr Tatiana.

Paul S. Wesson

Most of his articles have appeared in the standard journals for astronomy and theoretical physics, but he has also written pieces for New Scientist and other magazines of popular science.

Stephen Snobelen

His current teaching and research interests are History of science (Early Modern and nineteenth century); Science and religion; Isaac Newton; The popularization of science; Radical theology in the Early Modern period; and Millenarianism.


see also

Big Picture Science

Guests include scientists and researchers from academic, public and private spheres (including NASA), popular science writers, cultural critics and ethicists focused on science.

British Interplanetary Society

Charles Chilton joined the society before writing and producing the popular science-fiction radio trilogy Journey Into Space.

Desmond Briscoe

Some of his first work with the workshop involved providing sounds for the popular science-fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit.

Diana Gabaldon

During the mid-1980s, Gabaldon wrote software reviews and technical articles for computer publications, as well as popular-science articles and comic books for Disney.

E. Paul Zehr

Zehr is best known to the general public as the author of the popular science books Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero published in 2008, and Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine published in 2011, both by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Epiphenomenalism

Popular science author Tor Nørretranders has called the delay "The User Illusion" implying that we only have the illusion of conscious control, most actions being controlled automatically by non-conscious parts of the brain with the conscious mind relegated to the role of spectator.

Gennady Gorelik

A physicist by education and historian by occupation, he published ten books and many articles on popular science and history of science, including in-depth biographies of 20th-century Russian physicists, Matvei Bronstein, Andrei Sakharov, and Lev Landau.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Heinz Oberhummer

He is also engaged in the creation and presentation of popular science with the Science Busters in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna and as a weekly radio column and podcast in the Austrian youth radio station FM4.

Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine

Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine is a popular science book published in 2011 by neuroscience professor, martial arts master, and long-time comic-book reader E. Paul Zehr.

Irena Latinik-Vetulani

For many years she was publishing short articles in Wszechświat, a popular science monthly.

James Gould

James L. Gould (born 1945), American ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer

John Arthur Thomson

According to Peter J. Bowler Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated.

John Gribbin

The conservative political magazine The Spectator described Gribbin as "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around" in a review of Science: A History, which it praises as "the product of immense learning, and a lifetime spent working out how to write in a vivacious way about science and scientists", but criticises failing to give adequate representation to famous women scientists.

Kazimir Tarman

Kazimir Tarman (born 4 March 1930) is a Slovene professor of Animal Ecology, author of many scientific and popular science books on ecology.

Mark van Vugt

He is the lead author of a popular science book on leadership with British science journalist Anjana Ahuja which has been translated in over ten languages.

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life

Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life is a 2008 book by popular science writer Carl Zimmer.

Milan Šenoa

He authored more than 50 works in physics, social geography, travelogues as well as numerous popular-science articles and several novels.

Pinker

Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author

Rolf Brahde

He also published popular science books and articles, he was a common guest in radio and television programmes and provided commentary for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation during the television coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Samuel Mackenzie Elliott

He was a founder of the "Popular Science Monthly" magazine, promoted and championed the writings of Herbert Spencer, and built a large domed astronomical observatory in his hill top home.

Splashpower

A Splashpower system was featured on Tomorrow's World (a popular science/IT programme from the BBC) some years ago, where it was given praise and demonstrated a London cafe setting where be-suited executive types were able to charge their phones and PDAs whilst having a power lunch.

Star track

Star Trek, a popular science fiction franchise that is often mispronounced as Star Track

Terry Carter

He is best known internationally for his co-starring role as "Colonel Tigh" in the popular science-fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica.

Virgin Books

Virgin Publishing's early success came with the Doctor Who New Adventures novels, officially-licensed full-length novels carrying on the story of the popular science-fiction television series following its cancellation in 1989.