What do we want "general education" students who aren't going to be scientists to come away from their college science classes able to do? Certainly some content knowledge is important, but more

"Life after Google", by George Gilder, is one of the more interesting books I have purchased by-sight from a bookstore recently. In it, Gilder speculates about how things will change as we move

(We talked about this in class recently, thought I'd share.) The speed of sound in air is around 760 mph, or 1200 kph - that's fast, but it's not terribly fast. It's fast enough so that face-to-face human

1. Know what peer-review is, and isn't. Peer-review is a good thing, peer-review is not a perfect thing.  Most importantly, peer-review does NOT mean that someone repeated your experiment and verified

Was reminded today of some of G.K. Chesterton's comments about science in Orthodoxy - especially the way we like to fool ourselves. I'm rephrasing a bit but - I drop a ball, it falls to the ground. I do