“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete; and that there are no new worlds to conquer” – Humphry Davy (1810) Lecture cited in The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes … Continue reading
By Jason Abdilla Last week, Dr. Tom Katsouleas, Dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, wrote an article for Forbes about an alarming experience he had walking out of a movie theatre. North Carolina anti-fracking petitioners asked Katsouleas to sign a petition to ban fracking throughout the State. “I certainly don’t want to add environmental risk to our landscape and … Continue reading
“After the war, when my parents became farm workers in southern Ontario, I fell in love with insects, particularly beetles, and spent countless hours wading through my magical swamp. When I became a geneticist, it was to study heredity in an insect, the fruit fly. Astronomer Carl Sagan told me that as a child he … Continue reading
Every theoretical and scientific practice grows out of and remains supported by the forgotten ground of our directly felt experience, and has value and meaning only in reference to this primordial and open realm -David Abram from Spell of the Sensuous Continue reading
“[Science] sometimes looks like a lonely activity, but it is as much the opposite of lonely as human behavior can be. There is nothing so social, so communal, so interdependent. An active field of science is alike an immense anthill; the individual almost vanishes into the mass of minds tumbling over each other, carrying information … Continue reading
Excellent piece that highlights the research TSS covered here: http://toseescience.org/2012/12/24/using-discovery-narratives-in-science-education/. Virginia Hughes is has also been one of my (Jason’s) favorite science writers for the last couple years at Last Word On Nothing. Continue reading
“Many scientists insist that the highest purpose of human knowledge is to provide the facts and nothing but the facts. But just what is scientific fact?…The composing of theories and formulae is a symbol-making activity. The results are not ultimate insights but assuring symbols of nature. The scientific world thus becomes a sphere of man-made … Continue reading
Originally posted on Just Science:
Bayer Co. began a survey of science education. A report released this year summarizes the data from 15 years of public opinion on STEM. In summary, 15 universal beliefs emerged: Science literacy is critical for all Americans young and old, scientist or non-scientist U.S. global economic leadership and competitiveness are…
And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The Antechapel where the Stature stood Of Newton with his prism and his silent face, The marble index of a Mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone… William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850), Book III lines 58-64 Continue reading
By Jason Abdilla No “I” in Science Literacy or Communication The distanced and disinterested way of communicating science is not only a custom of academic journals, but it’s also the preferred tone in educational texts. The invisibility of the author (by way of third person narration) gives the sense that neither bias nor culture nor personality will … Continue reading
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