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The vocabulary of science

November 26, 2012 | Author:AAAS Member -- Founder, Insanitek Research and Development, Grace Conyers
The vocabulary of science

Language is probably the most important thing we have as human beings. It allows us to share ideas, feelings, thoughts, and news. We use it every day to communicate who we are, what we believe in, and express our emotions and desires. In communicating science, it has an additional dimension to it, whereas it shares a load of responsibility we rarely consider in daily life. As I've seen while I work with the public, there are two different, really specific ways that we lose interest: specialization and relevancy of information.