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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am dismayed by the article on science illiteracy by Key Dismukes and John Jonides (“Project 2061: A Place To Start Educating The Public,” The Scientist, Aug. 7, 1989, page 11). Their argument 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 ...

Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute and adjunct assistant professor of computer science at The City College of New York's ...

The ‘establishment’ doctor, the scientist ‘enslaved by Big Pharma’, the ‘corrupt’ researcher, the ‘imposed’ vaccine, the ...

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 ...