... This chapter examines the ideology, organization, and practice of the program of earthquake monitoring, prediction, and defense during China's Cultural Revolution, with a focus on the culture of mass science. By a strange coincidence, there were about ten major earthquakes in China during...

... mass science earthquakes Chinese Cultural Revolution prediction seismology ...

... science. By a strange coincidence, there were about ten major earthquakes in China during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution, from 1966 to 1976. The Chinese political and scientific leaders tried to organize a general program that involved the masses in the effort to monitor and predict...

..., creating educational “niche” programming for various social groups. The chapter follows the history of this expansion from early European efforts at televised mass education through the development of specialized programming clustered around politics, taste, science, and family. It lingers on the close...

.... The experimental situation in China excites even more anxieties. After all, BGI is an octopus-like global biotech enterprise that also has a domestic agenda of preparing for anticipating China’s national health challenges. Western fears that science in China is a mass assembly production are countered by Chinese...

... to change national guidelines for the Body Mass Index, and how overnight, millions of Indians were suddenly considered overweight. This generated a problem of matching metabolisms to persons over generations. Public health policies and their biological rationales circulated popularly imagined oppositions...

... The introduction highlights four major interventions of the book. First, rather than relying on social science definitions of revolution as transformed states and overthrown leaders, it uses the term to broadly capture affective, intimate, embodied, institutional, and spatial registers...

... This chapter discusses how quiz and game show formats, one of the most popular program types during socialism, were deployed as instruments for mass education. The argument zooms out to consider how quiz and game shows crystallized the logic of competition. Competition embraced and permeated...

... early European efforts at televised mass education through the development of specialized programming clustered around politics, taste, science, and family. It lingers on the close analysis of the popular Hungarian series Family Circle , a program that developed an effective and successful formula...

... it accessible to the masses. In this regard, emphasis is placed on the formula that Punin elaborated in his analysis of modern art (1920) and on the 1921 exhibition 5 × 5 = 25 . constructivism Popova 5 × 5 = 25 Punin communist art ...

... The notion that mass screening and treatment of HIV could effectively end the epidemic has generated enthusiasm in global health. The strategy of “treatment as prevention” (TasP) is being experimented with in population trials even as it is being adopted by physicians and, increasingly...

...Rupture, Continuity The notion that mass screening and treatment of HIV could effectively end the epidemic has generated enthusiasm in global health. The strategy of “treatment as prevention” (TasP) is being experimented with in population trials even as it is being adopted by physicians...