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The 3 Main Facets of Science
The 3 Main Facets of Science
Artists and Science©
Urania
William Blake
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UK Science in the Balance?
The 3 Main Facets of Science
JxJy – JyJx = iJz
Chemistry – all of it - in 30 seconds
as easy as 0, 1, 2, 3 ©
Research Strategy ©
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We have had the three Es
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Now we have the three Cs
3 Crises
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Crisis 1
The public appreciate what science has done for them in the past,
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Not so confident that wise decisions are being made at the SET/society interface for the future
Science and the Media
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vega presentation.ppt
NN&Nanoscience
Nanotechnology
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Ray Whitby and Kuang Wen Hsu Sussex NNC
Insulated conducting wire
Molecular Shock Absorbers
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I have woken up in the 21st Century to discover that I have been doing nanotechnology all my life
Crisis, Crisis, Crisis ©
Crisis 2
Are we on the verge of losing 50%(?) of our university science departments
The NSF report that highlighted the relatively good level of well qualified 26-30 year old scientists
must not be taken as an argument for complacency because
A-level Chem UG Chem
In 1994 40,000 4000
In 2002 40,000 3000
Lott
Fallout from
the Research Assessment Exercise
and
too low unit of resource for science ugs
means
many SET departments face closure
The consequences for the Nation need to be considered
Factors
Science x2
Medicine x4.5
Factors
1. Much greater teaching time ca 5x),
2. need for well equipped labs,
3. direct and indirect costs eg space charges, greater need for heating, power utilities etc
1. Science education needs experiment
2. Scientific method is not taught
3. It is absorbed osmotically from the atmosphere of a research environment
4. Teaching only institutions cannot be provide this and their courses will not be accredited
5. This is related to the notion of what a University is
1. The focusing of research into a few top heavy battleships will unbalance of the science base
2. Oxbridge sends its students to the city and academia – the regional universities tend to supply the chemical industry
3. Outstanding research groups have historically flourished in the smaller institutions
EXAMPLES
HULL First Liquid Crystal Displays
LEICESTER Genetic Fingerprinting
KINGS DNA structure*
SUSSEX Buckminsterfullerene*
*Nobel Prizewinning Discoveries
1. 35% of the GNP of any developed nation depends on catalysis
2. The Chermistry Industry is ca 5 billion in surplus compared with ca 10 billion deficit in manufacturing
Two more worrying factors
The increase in National Insurance contribution
University salary inflation rate has for some time been running at about 3½% whereas allowance for only 2½ has been made
Efficiency going down
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Crisis 3
The crisis in science education
in particular of the 11-15 age group
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Phys Chem Biol
No DegreeNo A-level
According to the Economist of Teachers teaching A levels
In a particular LEA, the ratio of teachers with a degree in the subject
Physics/Chemistry/Biology is 1/2/4
In one study sample
of 30 PGCE science graduates in 1992 only 2 are still in teaching
Language©
The Vega Science Trust
www.vega.org.uk
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TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
RSC – Vega
Internet project
TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
1. RSC-Vega working to create an Internet chemistry teachers’ resource
2. Accessible free worldwide
3. Providing the best possible audio-visual teaching material
4. Especially helpful for new teachers with limited specific experience
Where do you come from?
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Project Algebra and Geometry Algebra and Geometry are easy. Here is an equation. Fill in the empty squares and solve the equation. F stands for the number of faces, C for the number of corners and E for the number of edges for a shape. For a cube F = 6. Could anything be easier? When you have worked out F, C and E for a shape you can solve the equation.
F + C – E = ?
Faces
Corners
Edges
= ?
Equation
F
C
E
Cube
Pyramid
Icosahedron
Football
What do you notice about the results?
Algebra
It’s as easy as a, b, c ©
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MU RS.C MMU
The Dalton Buckyball Workshop
dxdy
= a
No kid should leave school without being able to expand or reduce an image
in one go
using a photocopier
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4
By measuring and determining the ratio
4/3 = 1.33 = 133%
3/4 = 0.75 = 75%
1.00nm
What is a nanometer?
Hare’s Ratio
Medical Notes
Senior Nurses discussed nurses’ inability to do simple maths
many could not work out dose-to-bodyweight ratios
… they put decimal points in the wrong place so patients might receive 10 times more or times less medication than intended
School Arts/Science project©
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Senior Nurses discussed problems stemming from nurses’ inability to do simple maths
… they put decimal points in the wrong place so patients might receive 10 times more or times less medication than intended
they could not work out dose-to-bodyweight ratios which were particularly important for giving drugs to children
Medical Notes
Senior Nurses discussed problems stemming from nurses’ inability to
do simple maths
… they put decimal points in the wrong place so patients might receive 10 times more or times less medication than intended
EXAMPLES
35% of the GDP tied to Catalysis in some way or other
Research Strategy ©
TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
E =mc2
TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
E =mc2
DNA
TV (or www) Dinner Approach to the Provision of Teaching Material
E =mc2
H2O DNA
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Language
At a Faraday discussion meeting in Birmingham in 1954 on “The study of fast reactions”, the German scientist Manfred Eigen asked the Oxford don Ronnie Bell how the English language would describe reactions which were ‘faster than fast’. Ronnie Bell replied “Damn fast reactions Manfred and if they get faster than that, the English language will not fail you, you can call them damn fast reactions indeed!”.
Final proficiency in English
non-English speaking immigrants to USA
280
240
5 10 20 30
Age of arrival
200
According to the Economist
80% of teaching A leveldo
Physics do ot
The crisis in science education
The crisis in the decimation of science at UK Universities
The crisis in the level of ignorance of the public over science Engineering and Technolgy
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Moliére’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme
MJ Monsieur Jourdain – PM - Philosophy Master
MJ I wish to write something to my lady
PM Then without doubt, it is verse you will need
MJ No - not verse
PM Do you want only prose then?
MJ No neither
PM It must be one or the other
MJ Why?
PM There is no other way to express oneself other than in prose or verse
MJ There is nothing but prose and verse?
PM No sir - everything that is not prose is verse and everything that is not verse is prose
JM And when one speaks - what is that then?
PM Prose
JM Well by my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it. I am much obliged to you for having taught me that
Monsieur Jourdain – Philosophy Master
MJ - I agree we have to have SET for the good of society
PM - Then it is nanotechnology we need
MJ - Non not N&N aaghhhh
PM Do you want only High Energy Physics then?
MJ No neither
PM - It must be one or the other high energy particle physics or low energy – which is (atons stuck together in molecule) schemistry molecule biology and moleculr physics moleules which are
Why?
Because that is all there is
There is nothing but High and low energy
No sir - everything that is not High Energy Physics involves low energy and thus molecule which are nanometer in size and everythinh that is not |N&N is high energy science
And when we do
Well by my faith for more than forty years I have been using th fruits of N&N withiout knowing anything about it – I am much obliged sir
Science deals with matter either at HIGH (nuclear) energies eg particle physics and cosmological events such as the Big Bang etc
or
our understanding of how atoms stick together in chemical bonds at LOW energies – around room temperature - what happens when ice freezes we boil water or an egg, take an aspirin etc
Indeed anything that happens at nanoscale dimensions is nanoscience and nanotechnolgy (N&N) - so it encompasses all of chemistry - all of molecular physics and all of - molecular biology
Is there anything left? – Not much
Moliére’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme
MJ Monsieur Jourdain – PM - Philosophy Master
MJ I wish to write something to my lady
PM Then without doubt, it is verse you will need
MJ No - not verse
PM Do you want only prose then?
MJ No neither
PM It must be one or the other
MJ Why?
PM Everything that is not prose is verse and everything that is not verse is prose
JM And when one speaks - what is that then?
PM Prose
JM Well by my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it.
MATTER at HIGH ENERGY
particle physics and cosmological events such as the Big Bang etc
MATTER at LOW ENERGY
implicitly depends on chemical bonds – nanoscale science
all chemistry molecular biology and molecular physics
Is there anything left? – Not much
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