I want to continue my discussion of the environment in this post. I read with interest another editorial by the New York Times writer Thomas Friedman entitled The Green Leap Forward which again focused the pollution of China's environment. He started his article with...
I want to continue my discussion of the environment in this post. I read with interest another editorial by the New York Times writer Thomas Friedman entitled The Green Leap Forward which again focused the pollution of China's environment. He started his article with...
State of denial seems to be a way of describing the view that many people have about the effects of human growth and activity on the environment. Three different sources of information are worth considering here: an article by Thomas Friedman, comments by Kofi Annan,...
Last Fall, I wrote a Katrina online activity entitled, Hurricane Katrina: A Citizen Resource. This citizen resource is designed to help us understand the magnitude of this natural disaster, and to point us toward ways to reduce the destruction and loss of life caused...
The short answer is yes. Here's a longer answer. In 1986, Richard Rhodes published the Pulitzer Prize book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb giving us a sweeping account of the making of the first atomic bomb, including who and how they did it. Image: The Making of the...
Perhaps one of the important trends over the past 20 years in science teaching has been the “science and social responsibility movement†which resulted in programs that have impacted K-12 schools, not only in the US, but in many countries around the world....
