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By analyzing the contests that appeared in Popular Science Monthly from 1918 to 1938, this article discusses the rhetoric of public engagement with technological innovation, and the magazine's construction of a readership community. A close analysis of these contests reveals a burgeoning participatory culture within the context of the popularization of science and technology in the mass-circulation press of early twentieth-century America. Significantly, the contests frame their public as an active participant in the development of science and technology, in sharp contrast to the passive, diffusionist model of science popularization that dominated the interwar period in the United States.

"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? : Bigfoot, science, and the people in post-Máo China -- "Have we dug at our ancestral shrine?" : post-Máo ethnic nationalism and its limits

Introduction: The beast within -- How ethology became popular -- The alchemy of aggression -- Weapons created man -- The biology of love -- The aggression debate -- Sociobiology and pop ethology: contextualizing E. O. Wilson -- Genes and gender: the sociobiology debate -- Conclusion: On the shores of Lake Turkana.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Curious Century -- 1 Wonder House: The Brooklyn Children's Museum as Beautiful Dream -- 2 Science in the Basement: Selling the Home Lab in the Interwar Years -- 3 Embryo Scientists: Finding and Saving Postwar "Science Talent" -- 4 Space Cadets and Rocket Boys: Policing the Masculinity of Scientific Enthusiasms -- 5 The Exploratorium and the Persistence of Innocent Science -- Conclusion: Looking Closer at "Kids Are Little Scientists" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G