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Ryan Helm, a freshman in integrated social studies, spends time on homework in the Vernon R. Alden Library on Tuesday, August 25, 2015.
One of the group projects our MSc students produce every year (see the full set for details/ more examples).
This group wanted to explore a point made by Alvin M. Weinberg in his famous 1961 Science article about "Big Science", where he likened large scientific projects to cathedrals:
"[history] will find in the monuments of Big Science - the huge rockets, the high-energy accelerators, the high-flux research reactors - symbols of our time just as surely as she finds in Notre Dame a symbol of the Middle Ages [...] We build our monuments in the name of scientific truth, they built theirs in the name of religious truth; we use our Big Science to add to our country's prestige, they used their churches for their cities' prestige"
They bought a 3D jigsaw of a cathedral (in this case, Cologne Cathedral), built it, took it apart and then used the bits to produce a model of the Large Hadron Collider, They also videoed themselves doing this, including a little trip to our local "cathedral to science" (the Natural History Museum) as well as a great moment where one of the students pauses, puts down the piece she is gluing with a look of realisation says: "what *are* they doing in the middle of the LHC"?
In many respects, the final piece was this video rather than the model itself. As soon as I can convince them to put the video online, I'll link to it here. Still, the photos should give some idea of what they were doing. In this shot you can see the inside of the Cathedral/ LHC (and their attempt to represent colliding particles) you can also see pictures of it on a map of Geneva, and from the other side.
When people compare science and religion it is often assumed that they are doing so to be rather loosely critical of science, but this wasn't necessarily what the group were doing. They wanted to make broader points, they saw both the LHC and Cologne Cathedral as examples of a human search for truth, as well as a celebration of human power and ingenuity. I think this piece also reflects differences between science and religion: comparisons are not always about saying things are the same. Other more critical comparisons can be read into it too. It's an open, interpretive piece: make of it what you will.
One final point: CERN sell jigsaws in their giftshop too.
Meet "Enlightenment Edward", part of the Science Action Men collection. Check out his Royal Society Membership. See also this larger shot to fully check out the wonder of his breeches.
This isn't a serious toy, it is taking the mickey out of edu-tainment products and the stereotypes we make out of the history of science. It is part of the "group project" activity we set our Science Communication MSc students. Full details of this assignment and more examples of similarly wonderfully bonkers student work here.
Also available in the range are: Naturalist Nicolas, Atomic Aleksandr, Renaissance Rafael, Greek Gregorius, Alchemist Arthur, and, after a poll of young fans of the range, Climatologist Clarissa. A few of them here. There was a great promo video to go with the project, if I can convince them to put it online, I'll link to it.
A knitted version of Mendel's peas. Note the winding tail at the end, symbolising how long it took before anyone applied his work.
This is just a snippet in the knitted history of genetics some of my students for a project where we challenge them to make something (anything) which reflects on some of the theoretical content they've studied in term one. See the full set for more details/ examples.
This group wanted to play with connections between craft and science, especially the way in which knitting works incrementally. As they put it, in knitting you learn from your mistakes. Also, each stitch is a stepping stone to the next; in many respects any piece of knitting reflects its own history.
You can also see their knitted Dolly the Sheep and a longer shot of how the bits of the piece fit together, or read their project's knit-blog (with more photos) at genetiknits.wordpress.com.
Taylor Notestine, a senior in psychology who works as a student library assistant, locates books at Vernon R. Alden Library Thursday, August 27, 2015. Notestine works for Patron Initiated Circulation, a service that shares books, media and journal articles with OhioLINK.
Iranian journalism studentswork at an internet cafe in central Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Iran's top police chief envisions a new beat for his forces: patrolling cyberspace. "There is no time to wait," Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said last week at the opening of a new police headquarters in the Shiite seminary city of Qom. "We will have cyber police all over Iran." The first web watchdog squads are planned in Tehran this month - another step in Iran's rapidly expanding focus on the digital world as cyber warfare and online sleuthing take greater prominence with the Pentagon's new Cyber Command and the secrets spilled to WikiLeaks.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)