Tag: social studies of science and technology

• CLNR Summary published online: Heat Pumps

  The High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers is now free to download (pdf). This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the domestic heat pump group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in the UK and provides integrated…

  Klara Anna Capova

  January 4, 2015

  downloads, research reports

  energy practices, interdisciplinary research, social studies of science and technology, sociotechnical analysis, STS

• International Committee for the History of Technology reports on “Sounds of Space”

  Newsletter of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) reports on the Sounds of Space workshop organized by William R. Macauley and the Emmy Noether Research Group “The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century.” The workshop gathered more than two dozen scholars at Freie Universität Berlin…

  Klara Anna Capova

  September 27, 2014

  conference reports, downloads, talks

  astroculture, European, history of science, social studies of science and technology, STS, technology

• ‘Astrobiology, history, and society’ book has received a strong review in Choice

  I’m pleased to announce that Astrobiology, History, and Society has received a strong review in Choice, a periodical used by librarians to decide which books to acquire. Outstanding Title! 51-3815QH327 MARC Astrobiology, history, and society: life beyond Earth and the impact of discovery, ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch. Springer, 2013. ISBN 9783642359828 Recent confirmation of…

  Klara Anna Capova

  September 15, 2014

  publications, reviews

  astrobiology, fundamental questions, history, impact of science, social studies of science and technology