Tag: science

When I was little, I was there for what was, basically, the beginning of science in the popular media.  I remember as clearly as if it were yesterday–watching Jacques Cousteau’s TV specials on the “Undersea World” and Marlin Perkins on Wild Kingdom and, maybe best of all, the Apollo Moon landings.  In a world that […]

So far, in this series of articles on scientific literacy, we’ve touched on scale, mass, gravity, atoms, molecules, chemical bonds and Fritz Haber, with the occasional tangent into other things.  The purpose to all of this is to help people learn enough science to be able to understand public issues that are related to science […]