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"Magic, Science, Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action"--

International studies have shown that interest in science and technology among primary and secondary school students in Western European countries is low and seems to be decreasing. In many countries outside Europe, and especially in developing countries, interest in science and technology remains strong. As part of the large-scale European Union funded 'Science Education for Diversity' project, a questionnaire probing potential reasons for this difference was completed by students in the UK, Netherlands, Turkey, Lebanon, India and Malaysia. This questionnaire sought information about favourite courses, extracurricular activities and views on the nature of science. Over 9,000 students aged mainly between 10 and 14 years completed the questionnaire. Results revealed that students in countries outside Western Europe showed a greater interest in school science, in careers related to science and in extracurricular activities related to science than didWestern European students. Non-European studentswere also more likely to hold an empiricist viewof the nature of science and to believe that science can solve many problems faced by the world. Multilevel analysis revealed a strong correlation between interest in science and having such a view of the Nature of Science. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.

The authors analyze the development of the German mass media over the 30-year period of the existence of the united country, outline the main trends, and identify the features and prospects for the German's mass media development as the crucial institution of a modern democratic society. The context of the transformation of the modern media space seems relevant in scientific and practical terms.

The role museums play in shaping the public's understanding of the past has recently become a matter of considerable interest for historians and others. In Canada and Australia, portraits of their country's history created by national museums have ignited considerable controversy. The Canadian Museum of Civlization's Canada Hall was the subject of a review by four historians, chosen to examine the Hall's portrayal of political history, while the National Museum of Australia faced a highly politicised public review of all of its exhibits soon after the museum opened. By analysing and interpreting the findings of these reviews, the authors raise questions about the ability of museums to respond to historical controversy, shifting historiographies and changing understandings of what is important in the past.

Machine generated contents note: PART I Science at the Turn of the Millennium -- 1 The Emergence of a Competitiveness Research and Development Policy Coalition and the Commercialization of Academic Science and Technology (1996) -- Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades 69 -- 2 Recent Science: Late-Modern and Postmodern (1997) -- Paul Forman 109 -- PART II Science Conceived as a Production Process -- 3 The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research -- (1959) -- Richard R. Nelson 151 -- 4 Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention (1962) -- Kenneth J. Arrow 165 -- PART III Science Conceived as a Problem of Information Processing -- 5 Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research (1879) -- Charles Sanders Peirce 183 -- 6 Charles Sanders Peirce's Economy of Research (1994) -- James R. Wible 191 -- 7 Toward a New Economics of Science (1994) -- Partha Dasgupta and Paul A. David 219 -- 8 The Organization of Cognitive Labor (1993) -- Philip Kitcher 249 -- PART IV Science Conceived as an Economic Network of Limited Agents -- 9 From Science as an Economic Activity to Socioeconomics of Scientific Research: The Dynamics of Emergent and Consolidated Techno-economic Networks -- Michel Callon 277 -- 10 The Microeconomics of Academic Science -- John Ziman 318 -- 11 A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science (1999) -- William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf 341 -- 12 Scientists as Agents -- Stephen Turner 362 -- PART V Contours of the Globalized Privatization Regime -- 13 Making British Universities Accountable: In the Public Interest? -- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 387 -- 14 The Importance of Implicit Contracts in Collaborative Scientific Research -- Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin 412 -- 15 Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) -- David F. Noble 431 -- 16 The Road Not Taken: Revisiting the Original New Deal (2000) -- Steve Fuller 444 -- PART VI The Future of Scientific "Credit" -- 17 The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1969) -- Michael Polanyi 465 -- 18 The Instability of Authorship: Credit and Responsibility in Contemporary Biomedicine (1998) -- Mario Biagioli 486 -- 19 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts on the Possibilities (1994) -- D. Wade Hands 515

Preface -- Part 1. Analyses of the Responsibility of Science -- 1. Responsibility in Science: The Philosophical View (Hans Lenk) -- 2. Science as a Profession and its Responsibility (Harald A. Mieg) -- 3. Corporate Responsibility: A Principle of Responsive Adjustment (Peter A. French) -- Part 2. The Social Sciences View: Structural Conditions for Science Responsibility -- 4. Science Policy: From the Linear Model to Responsible Research and Innovation (Philip Macnaghten) -- 5. European Law: The Precautionary Principle and Science-based Innovation in Europe (Ellen Vos & Kristel de Smedt) -- 6. History of Science: Ambivalence(s) in the Research and use of Nuclear Energy (Horst Kant) -- Part 3. The Scientists' Voice on the Responsibility of Science -- 7. Between Parrhesia and Fake: Scientific Responsibility Today (Rainer E. Zimmermann) -- 8. On the Responsibility of Science for Guaranteeing Human Rights: In the Fight Against Human Degradation, Racism, and Anti-Semitism (Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski) -- 9. The Ambivalences of the Digital: Humans and Technologies Between new Options (dreams) and (un)noticeable Losses (Hartmut Graßl et al.)- Index.