The 32-year-old actor played science genius Peter Parker and his web-slinger alter ego in the two The Amazing Spider-Man movies.
Alan Alda, the actor and science popularizer, who will be a constant presence over the next few days, said, "We live in a world that runs on science, and many of us don't get the connection".
Institutions that generate knowledge increasingly play a role in the networks of relations among the key actors: University (Science), Industry (Business), and Government (Governance).
(Section 3) How is the technology of shallow geothermal energy shaped in the interplay between actors from science, engineering, administration, and civil society?
Furthermore, the cascades can function as an instrument to bridge the gap between actors from science and policy, as it explicitly shows that uncertainties held relevant in different arenas are actually directly related.
Specifically with regard to the latter, the role of bioethics may be problematic: in a sense that is very similar to the decline of the authority of expertise in what we termed the 'technocratic style'; bioethics expertise may be as much the servant of different actors in science and technology as its 'neutral' arbiter.
Having started between October 2011 and January 2012, 12 joint research projects with more than 90 actors from science, industry, society and authorities are working on "Risk characterisation and management", "Technologies for emission and immission management" and "Measures for communication and education" during the next 3 years.
Certainly Mr. Alda, the amiable actor and besotted science buff, does his studious best to illuminate the challenges that Marie Curie, gracefully portrayed by Anna Gunn, faced in pursuing a career in the sciences at a time when it was virtually unheard of for women to take prominent roles in academic or public life.
In the competition, more than 800 contestants sought to answer — in everything from poetry to animation — the question, "What is a flame?" The contest was sparked by the actor and master science communicator Alan Alda, who's an adviser to the Stony Brook program.
And just the prospect of greater competition for funding pushes actors in the science base to make short-term decisions that can have long-term impacts.
You miss the unchoreographed wayward tilt of a head or an improvised double take: the unpredictable physical chemistry of actors that computer science hasn't mastered -- yet.
