The science cafe: the French idea of average citizens debating great scientific issues in coffeehouses is now being tested in Switzerland--but with mixed results.
Swiss News › Nbr. 2004, May 2004
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The science cafe: the French idea of average citizens debating great scientific issues in coffeehouses is now being tested in Switzerland--but with mixed results.
There could hardly have been a timelier site for gauging popular reaction to the 'science cafe' notion than the Swiss Federal Institute for Research on Snow and Avalanches (SLF) in alpine Davos.
But to Dr. Daniel Glaser, the British Council's guest moderator, this was not the typical science cafe format. As he scanned his audience warily he saw that it largely consists of Davos-based scholars with datab...See the full content of this document
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