Elizabeth AnneEnglish for Science Students

Elizabeth.Anne@ujf-grenoble.fr @eannegrenoble

http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2013/01/c-p-snow-two-cultures

The Two Cultures

"Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

The construal of reality is inseparable

from the construal of the semantic

system in which the reality is encoded.

1610 1616

Newton

1686 1704

I can connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe

experiences and events, my dreams hopes and ambitions.

B1

I can present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points ...

C1

Handout 1.

Physical Review Letters

• turbulence

New Scientist• a magnificent raging river• the beautiful beast (called

turbulence)• the usual collection of

eddies and whorls• what you get when a puff

of smoke wanders into the annihilating headwind of a fan

• immense multi-headed vortices that swim through our oceans

Handout 1. (ctd)

Physical Review Letters New Scientist

forward enstrophy cascades

large swirls spawn little swirls (...) ends as the disorganised molecular jostling called heat.

quasi-2D turbulance the beast has been squeezed into just two dimensions - trapped in flatland

New Scientist 5 January 2013 pg 10

The synthesis of designer solid-state materials by living organisms is an emerging field in bio-nanotechnology. Key examples include (...) Here, we show that the earthworm's metal detoxification pathway can be exploited to produce luminescent, water-soluble semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots that emit in the green region of the visible spectrum ...

Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm

Nature Nanotechnology (Letters) 23 Dec 2012

doi.org/frkx9r

(DOI:10.1038/nmat2231)

(Nature Materials, doi.org/frkx9r)

Enhanced Cream production by Metabolic Engineering of Jersey Cows

It is possible that the low levels of production of cream by cows could be improved by altering the levels of enzymes in the central metabolism that influence the production of milk. To test this hypothesis, we identified and cloned the haythere gene, which codes for semi-skimmed milk in Jersey cows.

Handout 2.

Effects of eating on the energetics of cyclists relevant for the performance of muscles are studied for the first time. Eating change(s) the expectation values of fibre length by about 0.1cm vs. values at the equilibrium geometry, which is expected to have a significant effect on oxygen absorption, charge separation, and muscle fibre regeneration.

The two cultures

In the New Statesmanhttp://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2013/01/c-p-snow-two-cultures

Mervyn Bragg radio series "The Value of Culture" ep 3 of 5http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01phhy5

The Science WarsThe original texthttp://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/

A scientist's view (Professor Steven Weinburg)http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/weinberg.html

Richard Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/dawkins.html

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