Samsung wants to give away a lot of money for STEM projects in local schools and we all probably agree that is a good thing. But there is no such thing as a free lunch so they want to give it away to people who can mobilize the most people that care about science and kids.Sutter Middle School in Folsom is one of those in the running so if you want to get more science and math to young...
read moreAmericans of a particular cultural and political persuasion like to regard Europeans as 'more' scientific because surveys reveal that they say 'yes' to the appropriate buzzwords. Not so, even to European scientists. Europeans are instead far more distrustful and dismissive of science than most Americans; they are precautionary principle-obsessed.Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover would...
read moreAmericans of a particular cultural and political persuasion like to regard Europeans as 'more' scientific because surveys reveal that they say 'yes' to the appropriate buzzwords. Not so, even to European scientists. Europeans are instead far more distrustful and dismissive of science than most Americans; they are precautionary principle-obsessed.Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover would...
read moreAdult science literary has tripled since I was a kid, despite the shrill claims that teachers are incompetent, people are stupid and science education is "dismal" that we seen thrown around in consumer media and the advocacy-based segment of science blogging. In reality, people are pretty smart about science, but it can be humbling and people are less confident about things that are...
read moreThe EU is everything that can go wrong with bloated, inclusive bureaucracy. Their proposed constitution had bits of bizarre legal fluff like 'children have a right to be heard', they don't want a strong currency because it damages their individual, heavily subsidized economies if they have to pay more to stay competitive and they make being anti-science into an art form. read...
read moreIt makes environmental activists crazy, in that 'believe scientists when science agrees with us but scientists are out to kill us when science doesn't agree' kind of way, but a large study of U.S. adults found that the more science they knew and the more independent they were, the less they were worried about climate change. read...
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