No, this is not about Starbucks, Caribou, or McCafe coffee houses. But it is about coffee houses, and how coffee might have contributed to the field of science and science education, and indeed the Age of Enlightenment. In his book The Invention of Air, Steven Johnson...
Several months ago I purchased Steven Johnson's new book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America. I started reading it, but for some reason put it away, only to return to it this weekend. I finished reading it...
Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong's historic "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind" comment as he stepped from the LEM onto the moon's surface was watched by more than 600 million people (one fifth of mankind at the time). Humankind almost didn't see this...
Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong's historic "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind" comment as he stepped from the LEM onto the moon's surface was watched by more than 600 million people (one fifth of mankind at the time). Humankind almost didn't see this...
Perhaps the fundamental goal of science education should be finding ways to interest students in science. Stephen Hornstra Landgraaf, (The Netherlands) made this statement as part of his comment in my previous post. In this era of standards-based education we leave...
I decided to obtain a copy of Unscientific America by Mooney and Kirshenbaum via my Kindle App on my iPhone, and started reading immediately. A few days later, the book arrived. In an early part of the book, "the rise and cultural decline of American science," the...
