The chief kind of illiteracy faced today isn’t the inability to read and write. It’s more insidious. It’s mathematical and statistical, financial, geographic, historical, psychological, cultural, ...

Photo released by the Italian Guardia Forestale (Forestry Police Force) showing an aerial view of the destruction in the city of L'Aquila, central Italy, Monday, April 6, 2009. A powerful earthquake ...

The dangers of scientific illiteracy cannot be stated strongly enough. Yet, unfortunately, we live a world of dramatic and potentially incendiary clashes between scientific facts and ignorant opinions ...

What does avant-garde theater look like in 2023? There’s no reason to think that it should resemble the avant-garde in 1912 or 1935 or 1969. After all, what was cutting edge or transgressive then is ...

Today the United States is faced with a serious crisis in scientific literacy and education. In the midst of debate over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, health care reform and the economy, this ...

2008-03-08T21:41:16-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/aac/204010-m.jpgLawrence Krauss delivered a lecture titled, “Science and Anti-Science.” He addressed ...

A 2008 survey found that a mere 28% of Americans "meet the level of scientific literacy needed to understand scientific terms, concepts, methods, and the impact of science on society." No matter how ...

Science is complicated. Journalists don't like complicated. So we often boil things down to their simplest level. Because science is complicated, though, simple is often wrong. Take, for instance, an ...

In a recent letter to the editor, David Boone makes the statement, "If we can’t tell the difference between junk science and serious science, we need to go back to school." I feel he needs a chemistry ...