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June 2011

To read the June 2011 edition of People & Science you can either download the complete People and Science June 2011 file PDF 3681 KB or view the contents and download individual sections below.

Contents:

Editorial and cover story (PDF 596 KB)
Re-engagement at the Royal Society
Wendy Barnaby interbiews Paul Nurse

News (PDF 195KB)
British Science Association news
Government news
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Shorts (PDF 141KB)
Joanna Carpenter

Spat (PDF 168KB) 
Public engagement: is the future online?
Patrick Middleton and Sophia Collins

Opinion (PDF 142KB)
After Fukushima
Akister Scot and Jim Watson

The crucial one-fifth of a second
Tim Radford

Two views (PDF 279KB)
Science and animal experimentation
Frances Balkwill and Sophie Petit-Zeman

Engaging on climate change
David  Mackay and Nicola Frost

Exchange (PDF 343KB)
Are women changing science?
Uta Frith, Mary Collins and Carol Robinson

Feature (PDF 310KB)
Science trials and community engagement
Anthony James

Quakes and quacks
Michael Edmonds

Explaining statistics
Andrew Garratt

Public participation - a losers game?
Jesper Lassen, Annika P. Nielsen and Peter Sandoe

Its dark on Sark
Jo Birch

Correspondence and Review (PDF 316KB)
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
James Brokenshire

Peer review
Richard Smith

Enlightenment and hand-wringing
Alice Bell

Open space and STEM in Parliament (PDF 165KB)
What geeks can learn from gays
Mark Stevenson

'What did Romans ever do for us?'
Phil Willis

• Sounding off and water cooler (PDF 243KB)
We need to evaluate engagement
Eric Jensen

Tales from the water cooler
Barrie Cadshaw

• Avertisements (PDF 531KB)
British Science Festival
The Open University