Politics

Science Scores on International Assessments: The Sky is Falling

In yesterday's post, I described Science Debate 2008, and efforts to engage the two major candidates for President to answer 14 important questions about science.  The one question that focused on science education was as follows: A comparison of 15-year-olds in...

Presidential Candidates Answer Top 14 Questions on Science

You can find the answers to 14 science questions that were submitted to Barack Obama and John McCain at the  Science Debate website.  Starting in 2007, a small group of individuals began working on the possibility of having a debate between the two candidates focusing...

Teaching About Global Warming, or Should It Be "Global Weirding"

People who say "drill-baby-drill" are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman--see the video in this post).  The "drill-baby-drill" is a mantra of those...

Teaching About Global Warming, or Should It Be “Global Weirding”

People who say "drill-baby-drill" are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman--see the video in this post).  The "drill-baby-drill" is a mantra of those...

Scientists Enter the Political Debate

A new organization was launched yesterday Scientists and Engineers for America, dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making public policy. The group was organized by...

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