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| Paper: |
An Artist's Role in Science Communication |
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473, Communicating Science |
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225 |
| Authors: |
Droppo, R. |
| Abstract: |
“Considering the tradition of distant travelers, the range of their countrymen's desire to know, the government camp on Cornwallis Island seemed an impoverished outpost. There were no provisions there for painters, for musicians, for novelists. And there were no historians there. If the quest for knowledge in any remote place is meant in an egalitarian sense to be useful to all, then this is a peculiar situation. Yet it is no different from what one would find in a hundred other such remote places around the world. Whenever we seek to take swift and efficient possession of places completely new to us, places we neither own nor understand, our first and often only assessment is a scientific one. And so our evaluations remain unfinished.” Arctic Dreams p. 228 by Barry Lopez. |
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