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Dear Colleagues, The August IHPST newsletter is now available on the web at: http://ihpst.net/newsletters / CONTENTS: 1.            Science & Education Journal, Volume 22 Number 8 OLIVIA LEVRINI & PAOLA FANTINI / Encountering Complexity in Learning Modern Physics IGAL GALILI / On the Power of Fine Arts Pictorial Imagery in Science Education   CATHERINE ELIZABETH KENDIG / Integrating History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences in Practice to Enhance Science Education: Swammerdam’s Historia Insectorum Generalis and the Case of the Water Flea                             GEORGIOS TSAPARLIS, SOTIRIOS HARTZAVALOS & CANAN NAKIBOĞLU / Students’ Knowledge of Nuclear Science and its Connection with Civic Scientific Literacy i...

The deadline for applications for 3 CDA studentships at the University of Leicester on ‘Selling Health’ is 30 th August. These are available for October 2013 or January 2014 start and are open to UK and EU applicants Details at http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/selling-health Sally Horrocks

A catalogue of the papers of Eric Dingwall has been completed at Senate House Library, http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=priref=110016690 Eric Dingwall (1891-1986) was a polymath.  He edited four volumes of “Abnormal Hypnotic Phenomena:  a survey of nineteenth-century cases” (1967-8), which made a considerable contribution to the history of mesmerism and hypnosis.  His papers provide important insights into the history of dynamic psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth century; the sociology of negotiations around the boundaries of orthodox and heterodox science and medicine; and a new perspective on the popular understanding of psychology, psychiatry, oncology and neuroscience in the twentieth century. We are very grateful indeed for the support of the Wellcome Trust for this project and in particular for their award of a grant under the Research Resources in Medical History Sche...

The roles of climate models: epistemic, ethical and socio-political perspectives Place and time: IPO Building, Room 0.11, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, 31 st Oct - 1 st Nov 2013. ABSTRACT: Climate models influence our understanding of climate change, its causes and its future. They are a central technology of climate science. But they are also sources of information for far-reaching policy decisions, sites of multidisciplinary integration, products of distributed epistemic labor and much more. As a consequence, climate models are of significant interest to scholars in philosophy, history of science, and science and technology studies. This workshop will bring together well-regarded scholars in these fields along with established climate scientists to explore the epistemic, ethical and socio-political roles that climate models play, their interactions and implications. EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS: Judith Curry (Georgia Institute of Technology) G...