12/20/2023 0 Comments What is natural science![]() Scholars that study popularization have found that when scientists do their work as knowledge laborers, they produce “knowledge objects” called research reports, and these reports are written in the “narrative of science.” As the fantastic science literary scholar, Greg Myers puts it: This is an important distinction for us as science writers. So its story is different, and on a different time scale than science. Simply put, nature has been around a lot longer than science. The industrial revolution is two seconds before the ball drops. Squeeze its whole history into the calendar year we have now, and you’ll find that life doesn’t appear until late February, mammals don’t show up until December, dinosaurs go extinct on Christmas, and homo sapiens come on to the scene less than a half hour before the clock strikes midnight. The planet we live on is billions of years old. Maybe since Ibn al-Haytham documented the scientific method over a thousand years ago.īut nature? Nature’s been in the news since before there was news. Maybe since William Whewall coined the term “scientist” in in the 1830s to distinguish the doer-of-science from the natural philosopher. Here’s another way to think about it: science has been in the “news” for a long time. “Well, Nature’s based in London and New York, and Science is in DC.” In my last blog post I asked: what’s science news? Today, the question is: What’s the difference between nature and science?
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