While searching for information on concrete barge construction (don't ask),
I stumbled across an interesting website that should perhaps be better
known.
Its at:
http://www.citiesofscience.co.uk/go/About.html
I've been thinking for a while that one of the best ways that good history
of science can engage with a wider audience is through place sensitive
websites. This one looks promising. THink of it as a potential community
blog for sharing knowldge of the geography of history of science. Its
perhaps most useful for school projects, but it has other uses too.
It is, perhaps, a model of the kind of thing that history of science
societies should either be contributing to or doing themselves...
More info below.
cheers
Jon
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About the Cities of Science
City science on show
This web site is for people living in a number of cities or urban areas
including teachers and learners in the schools and colleges of these cities.
A partnership
The site is being developed by the Nuffield Curriculum Centre working with
SETPOINTS, @-Bristol and the London Region of the ASE.
Sponsors
Sponsors of the site include the Nuffield Foundation and the National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
From one city to seven cities
Thanks to the grant from the National Endowment of Science, Technology and
the Arts (NESTA) we are able to extend this web site from London, where it
began, to six more cities.
Origins
The London part of the site began as a Science Year project in 2001-2.
Science Year has evolved into Planet Science with its lively and varied web
site.
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