science literacy
Videos
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What Will Really Happen in 2012?
Are we all going to die? Neil DeGrasse Tyson holds court well into the wee hours of the night during the Star-Gazing Party at the 2010 World Science Festival, held at the base of...
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Why Science Literacy Matters
Neil DeGrasse Tyson holds court well into the wee hours of the night during the Star-Gazing Party at the 2010 World Science Festival, held at the base of the James Webb Space...
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World Science Festival: Highlight Reel
The World Science Festival is a nonprofit organization that brings together preeminent figures from science, industry, academia, and the arts for a series of live events that...
Blog Posts
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A Twist on Climate Change, Risk, and Uncertainty
The air grows thick. Dark clouds churn like a pot of boiling water overhead. The colors of reality become oversaturated—greens too green, yellow a sickly gold. This is what tornado weather looks like, and the United States has been hit with a lot of it lately. Make no...
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Scientific Fluency, the Universe, and a Balloon
Science communication is difficult. It can be crippled by the complexity of its own subject matter. It can be steeped in jargon, too dense for its readership, or, conversely, too simplistic to satisfy its critics in the scientific community. It can lack warmth, or be too...
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Your Zodiac Remains Unchanged, Still Not Based in Scientific Fact
Yesterday, I went on Facebook. Not an unusual activity for someone my age. Or for someone my parents’ age, which I still haven’t gotten used to. But that’s not the point of this. Several of my “friends” had statuses mentioning "Ophiuchus", whatever that is. One girl’s panicked...
