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The public make snap judgements about new technologies
When shown an image and a brief description, citizens formed rapid and stable judgements, despite little prior knowledge of the emerging technology presented to them.
PhD student Dan Carlisle led the study.
An investigation recently published in the
Public Understanding of Science journal by researchers from Massey University and the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, shows people stick to fast intuitive judgements about unfamiliar scientific technologies, and that taking more time to form these judgements doesn’t change the outcome.
Massey PhD student Dan Carlisle led the study. He says it’s an important result for science communication particularly when engaging with the public over emerging technologies such as climate engineering. “We wanted to know whether you could get quick answers from the public on the acceptability of unfamiliar scientific approaches, and whether encouraging people to think more a
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The politics of carbon drawdown Submitted by AWL on 29 June, 2021 - 4:28
Author: Todd Hamer
A review of books by Elizabeth Kolbert and Holly Jean Buck. Buck will be speaking at Ideas for Freedom, 10-11 July.
Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book
Under a White Sky describes a pattern in the relationship between human beings and our environment that we can observe being played out at different scales and on different terrains throughout recent history.
The reversing of the Chicago River to solve Chicago’s sewage problem was initially successful. A canal diverted Chicago’s waste into the Des Plaines river rather than Lake Michigan.