[News page-Taihai.com] "This may be my last residual heat, and I have to squeeze it out. With this belief, Jin Yong, an 88-year-old senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University, actively tried a new platform to popularize chemical knowledge through short ** and live broadcasts, and became popular from Douyin. In just half a year, this free "Internet Night School" has attracted more than 1.3 million netizens to come to "skip classes", many of whom are young people.
Most of the young people work at a tight pace during the day, burying themselves in the cubicles, and listening to various lectures at night and Xi learning new scientific discoveries can not only give their tense nerves a vacation, but also constantly unlock more lifestyles and enrich their knowledge reserves. The call for "evening classes" to be opened and increased is in response to the growing demand for public culture among young people. However, in reality, offline venues are limited after all, and teachers also need a lot of investment, so it is difficult to make a profit by opening "night schools" on a large scale, forming a positive cycle.
The Internet, especially the short ** platform, is rich in content and flexible in time, which can meet the needs of different audiences, and can be described as the most accessible and practical "public space". At this time, if there are excellent teachers to produce high-quality content, it is easier to cultivate a high-quality learning and Xi atmosphere. It is gratifying that it is becoming a phenomenon for scientists represented by Academician Jin Yong to devote themselves to popular science.
For a long time, it was not easy for scientists to do popular science. On the one hand, heavy teaching tasks and diverse scientific research requirements occupy a lot of scientists' time, and it is difficult to spare the energy to carry out science popularization work for the public. At the same time, for a long time, there has been a lack of incentives in the mechanism of science popularization, which can neither be regarded as academic achievements nor bring additional income. On the other hand, the dissemination of obscure scientific knowledge to the public tests the multi-dimensional ability of scientists in language organization and media use. In the past, well-prepared content could only be disseminated through books, university lectures, etc., which also limited the scope of influence.
Nowadays, the popularity of short ** and live broadcast has changed the communication environment of popular science. Recording a 1-3 minute short ** does not require too much energy from scientists, but also enough for the audience to understand a series of cutting-edge scientific and technological hotspots from artificial sun, to rocket launches, and even soil pollution, artificial intelligence, etc., and can also achieve far-reaching communication through the huge number of users of Douyin. It can be said that the "win-win" brought about by the progress of media technology has helped many scientists such as Jin Yong activate their enthusiasm for creating popular science content, so that popular science can also become a "trend" and science can become "lively".
At present, Douyin has more than 45 academicians and 40 Nobel laureates sharing their expertise on the platform throughout the year. Is it overkill for the "big gods" and "big guys" to do popular science?In fact, the importance of popular science lies in the fact that it is a work that lays the foundation and benefits the long-term in the scientific cause. If overcoming some scientific research problems is like "picking fruits", then doing a good job in popularizing science and igniting scientific dreams is "sowing seeds".
Scientists attach importance to popular science in order to sow the seeds of science to all corners of society and lay a more solid foundation for the cultivation of scientific talents and the development of scientific research. Guo Guangcan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is engaged in quantum information technology research, once said, "Many of my students came to be my graduate students after listening to my popular science, and now many of them have grown into national outstanding young people and excellent young people." ”
As we all know, in today's competition between countries, scientific and technological innovation is the main battlefield. To build a strong country in science and technology, we should not only look at the important weapons and core technologies of a big country, but also pay attention to improving the overall scientific literacy of the whole society and create a good atmosphere for innovation. Only by doing a good job in popularizing science, laying a solid foundation, and taking solid steps to build an innovative country can we have a steady stream of talents.
In the face of the attention of more than 1.3 million "children", "retired teacher" Academician Jin Yong said frankly that technology is changing, but everyone's love for science will not change, and he will squeeze out "his last bit of residual heat and do something meaningful." "I believe that with the efforts of him and more academicians, scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific thoughts, and scientific spirit can be spread to the vast land of the motherland through a short period of time. (Wen Wangcheng).