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Taking climate change seriously: An analysis of op-ed articles in Spanish press by Martí Domínguez, Íngrid Lafita, Anna Mateu University of Valencia, Spain Published in Public Understanding of Science, April 2016 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662516641844

By JoAnn M. Valenti, Ph.D./Emerita Professor Recent headline-making discoveries coupled with international box-office hits would seem a sure demonstration of public interest in films about science, especially space exploration. Not quite at Robert Redford’s annual, snowy, mountain high Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (USA). As has become the case at this prestigious

There's an old journalism trick that says: "If you want to get something original out of an interviewee, say nothing and wait". Thus, when I was due to interview Beth Raps, one of six winners of the essay competition on the ‘deficit concept’, instead of looking for those questions that make people comfortable enough to speak freely, I only asked her to talk about her latest publication in an