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Science in popular culture is the treatment of scientific themes and issues in popular media such as cinema, music, television and novels.^[1]^{[page needed]} There is a branch of fiction which specialises in such themes – science fiction.^[2]^: 172 In such works, the laws of science are commonly distorted as a form of artistic license.^[3]^{[page needed]}

History[edit]

Depiction of scientists[edit]

See Category:Cultural depictions of scientists

Popular concepts[edit]

Butterfly effect, Dyson spheres, electromagnetic pulse, fullerenes, Lightning rod fashion, Schrödinger's cat, space stations and habitats, terraforming, the periodic table (see Category:Periodic table in popular culture)

In the arts and media[edit]

Attitudes towards science[edit]

Evolution, climate change, vaccination
Imitation of science in non-scientific pursuits (e.g., pseudoscience)

References[edit]

^ Thurs, Daniel Patrick (2004). Science in popular culture: contested meanings and cultural authority in America, 1832–1994. University of Wisconsin Madison.
^ Erickson, Mark (2005). Science, culture, and society : understanding science in the twenty-first century. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745629759.
^ Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2002). Science in popular culture : a reference guide. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood press. ISBN 9780313318221.

Further reading[edit]

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette; Blondel, Christine, eds. (2008). Science and spectacle in the European Enlightenment. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9780754663706.
Cooter, Roger (1984). The cultural meaning of popular science : phrenology and the organization of consent in nineteenth-century Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521227438.
Luckhurst, Roger; McDonagh, Josephine, eds. (2002). Transactions and encounters : science and culture in the nineteenth century. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719059117.
Lynn, Michael R. (2006). Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719073731.
Needham, Joseph (2013). The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781136574481.
Onion, Rebecca (2016). Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469629483.
Sklar, Jessica K.; Sklar, Elizabeth S., eds. (2012). Mathematics in popular culture: Essays on appearances in film, fiction, games, television and other media. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN 9780786489947.
Turney, Jon (2000). Frankenstein's footsteps : science, genetics and popular culture. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300088267.

[Thurs-1] Thurs, Daniel Patrick (2004). Science in popular culture: contested meanings and cultural authority in America, 1832–1994. University of Wisconsin Madison.

[Erikson-2] Erickson, Mark (2005). Science, culture, and society : understanding science in the twenty-first century. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745629759.

[Riper-3] Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2002). Science in popular culture : a reference guide. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood press. ISBN 9780313318221.

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