The Earth's climate has changed rapidly over the past fifty years, but when people talk about climate change, they frame it as a future threat. David Popeik, in Scientific American guest blog, says that "climate report nails risk communication." He suggests that the...
Latest Story An article in the New York Times by William J. Broad got my attention and in this article, I want to use Broad's research to show how education is being harmed by private funding. The article by William J. Broad is entitled Billionaires with big ideas are...
On March 5, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead signed the state's budget into law. The bill has a footnote that prohibits the Department of Education from spending any funds to check or revise the state's science standards. The reason this footnote was added to the Wyoming...
Figure 1. Carl Sagan and the Universe. Copyright sillyrabbitmythsare4kids, Creative Commons Science has been prominent in the media recently. Stories and programs including the Bill Nye-Ken Ham "debate" on origins, anti-science legislation in Wyoming...
This is Part One of Bill Moyers' interview with astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium, at the American Museum of Natural History. In the interviews with Moyers, Dr. Tyson explores the nature of an expanding universe,...
Latest Story In a report published in Nature Geoscience, a scientific team studying rocks in Australia, used Australian zircons in the Jack Hills that are embedded in the rocks to decide the age and history of these rocks. They found evidence that the Earth's crust...
