Unpopular Science
We live in a time of pathbreaking advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology, of private spaceflight and personalized medicine, amid a climate and energy crisis, in a world made more dangerous by biological and nuclear terror threats and global pandemics. Meanwhile, advances in neuroscience are calling into question who we are, whether our identities and thought processes can be reduced to purely physical phenomena, whether we actually have free will. ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Our planet faces major science oriented problems and opportunities. 95% of politicians are scientifically challenged, and that is an improvement upon the general population. The public must be informed enough to vote on science in a democracy, or at least vote for representative delegates who are informed on science. Else we will be led again by anti-science fakirs. (And pull out those Scientific American issues, and submit stories on NewsTrust!)