{"id":692065,"date":"2010-03-15T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T16:43:34","slug":"unscientific-america-inspires-a-science-popularization-contest-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692065","title":{"rendered":"Unscientific America Inspires a Science-Popularization Contest | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were very pleased to come across <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.bmcc.cuny.edu\/news\/news.jsp?id=2337\">the following<\/a> news yesterday about a contest that was held for students of the CUNY system:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">Altogether, 12 CUNY undergraduates&#8211;out of 101 applicants&#8211;received awards for their essays based on 2009 Nobel prize-winning work in chemistry, physiology and medicine, physics, and economics. First, second and third prizes in each category included an Apple iMac Computer, a Dell Mini 10 Netbook, and an Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">The impetus for the competition, said Vice Chancellor Gillian Small in her opening remarks, came about when the 2009 Nobel winners were announced, and she was reading a recent book of essays titled <em>Unscientific America, How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">\u201cThere is a distressingly large number of Americans who refuse to accept even the theory of evolution,\u201d said Small, who envisioned the competition\u2019s essays making Nobel work in science accessible to a larger audience.<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful idea. This is just more evidence&#8211;and it is everywhere&#8211;that despite some hold-outs, an emphasis on fixing science communication is the new trend within <em>science itself<\/em>&#8230;and these are just the kinds of initiatives that will spur along that change.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__eg6Q7gRvKdO1kYw_CwG3oMTss\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__eg6Q7gRvKdO1kYw_CwG3oMTss\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__eg6Q7gRvKdO1kYw_CwG3oMTss\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__eg6Q7gRvKdO1kYw_CwG3oMTss\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/iiufhu35iUQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were very pleased to come across the following news yesterday about a contest that was held for students of the CUNY system: Altogether, 12 CUNY undergraduates&#8211;out of 101 applicants&#8211;received awards for their essays based on 2009 Nobel prize-winning work in chemistry, physiology and medicine, physics, and economics. First, second and third prizes in each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}