How one teacher deals with evolution
Though I don’t completely agree with her approach (I think we should let creationists be creationists and tell them they can succeed in science anyway), I...
Though I don’t completely agree with her approach (I think we should let creationists be creationists and tell them they can succeed in science anyway), I...
Here is an interesting post from one of Dan Kahan’s students (emphasis in original): I agree with Smith, however, that we should not go so far as to seek ...
As you know I’ve been on a science literacy and education kick the past couple weeks. I was considering transitioning to something else, but Dan Kahan ent...
In The Myth of Scientific Literacy, Morris Shamos has this gem of a quote from a former program director of the American Association for the Advancement of Scie...
Bryan Wynne’s landmark paper on British sheep famers dealing with Chernobyl’s fallout suggested a more nuanced understanding of science literacy tha...
Prolific commenter Robert Little asks: Praj, you asked why understanding biology should even be the goal. Let’s take it a step further. Why study biology in pub...
A couple months ago my friend Kenny Gibbs wrote a great post about diversity and science for Scientific American. I want to reflect on this sentence (emphasis...
In a talk titled ‘Your Religion is not Important’, the Dalai Lama once said: I am not interested, my friend, about your religion or if you are rel...
Just a heads up…I’m on vacation starting this Thursday for 2 weeks. So expect lighter / nonexistent posting. With that…Dan Kahan yet again sho...
To continue with the meme from my last post, Jonathan Coppage explains why belief in evolution isn’t really that important (emphasis added): Yet when the ...