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n. An interpretation of science intended for a general audience, rather than for other scientists or students
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Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American bi-monthly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects. Popular Science has won over 58 awards, including the American Society of Magazine Editors awards for its journalistic excellence in both 2003 (for General Excellence) and 2004 (for Best Magazine Section). With roots beginning in 1872, PopSci has been translated into over 30 languages and is distributed to at least 45 countries.
Popular Science (1935–1949) was a series of short films, produced by Jerry Fairbanks and released by Paramount Pictures.
The Popular Science film series is a Hollywood entertainment production - the only attempt by the movie industry to chronicle the progress of science, industry and popular culture during the first half of the 20th Century.
The series, filmed in Magnacolor, was the first to profile: father of television Philo T. Farnsworth (1939), Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural school (1942), building Hoover Dam (1935), building the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (1936), Academy Award-nominated Moon Rockets (1947), the Electron Microscope (1942), Jet Aircraft (1946), the birth of Plastic Surgery (1937), Telephone Answering Machine (1936), Fuel from Corn Cobs (1949), Rust Heinz and his Phantom Corsair car (1938), world's first full-scale (whole body) X-ray technique (1936), the "Mechanical Brain" Computer at UCLA (1948), Contact Lenses (1936), the Northrop " Flying Wing" (1948). The series also promoted Paramount with a tour (1938) of the then-new Fleischer Studios facility in Miami, Florida, which produced animated cartoons for Paramount.
The series was created by independent Hollywood film producer Jerry Fairbanks in May 1935. Produced with the cooperation of the editors of Popular Science magazine, the series introduced its audience to advances in medicine, aviation, science and technology, television, home improvement, planes, trains and automobiles, as well as an assortment of strange and whimsical inventions.
During its 14-year theatrical run, the Popular Science film series was honored with numerous awards and acclaim, including 5 Academy Award nominations. The Popular Science series also received a Special Commendation from the US Department of War in 1943 for its unparalleled coverage of American military technology involved World War II.
This film series has been a staple on television for decades, most recently shown on the American Movie Classics cable network, hosted by Nick Clooney and Bob Dorian. The series, as well as the rest of the Jerry Fairbanks film library, is owned by Shields Pictures.
Usage examples of "popular science".
I wrote some popular science articles about the work, but what I really wanted to do was to get in on the act myself, and I couldn't see how to do it.
The science fiction writer should also read the [[Popular Science]] magazines-Science Digest, Popular Science, and others-to keep apace with various advancements which might be incorporated into a story.
However, it's not very different from many accounts in popular science books and television programmes.
This is certainly a popular science fiction device, although Penrose, as we will discuss in some detail in Chapter 13, would argue that it is impossible because the brain is more than a computer.
She put Ellie's version on both popular science and general news, and then we ran for the flyboy.
Mathematician and popular science writer Ian Stewart has now produced the first annotated version, on the heels of his own sequel to Abbott, Flatterland (2001).
One of the most popular science fiction personalities of this era, paradoxically Willy Ley was not (except for three stories published under the pseudonym Robert Willey) a writer of science fiction.
The only reason that Silverberg does not challenge Poul Anderson's status as science fiction's most prolific writer is because so much of Silverberg's output has been in other arenas-he has written voluminously in the fields of popular science, history and biography, and has produced a series of distinguished books about archaeology.
He was simply a middle-class gentleman with a little more conscience than most, a scholar who happened to prefer popular science to the classics.
They should quit reading those damned little squibs in the popular science magazines, for starters -- I get enough screwball mail as it is.