Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard’s New Science Dean Wants Students to Tackle ‘Genuinely Hard Problems’

Harvard College Dean of Science Jeff W. Lichtman wants to reshape how undergraduates are solving problems. Lichtman — who was appointed as Dean of Science in July — said in an interview with The ...
extension.purdue.edu

Learning How Science Can Be Used to Help Solve Everyday Problems

The Program for International Student Assessment showed that 2012 math literacy data of 15-year[1]old students in 21 countries have higher averages than U.S. students. National Inventors Hall of Fame ...
Psychology Today

Diagnosing the Problems With the Science of Consciousness

Erik Hoel opens his recent book, The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 1, with a review of “humanity’s two perspectives on the world.” I learned of Hoel’s ...
The Atlantic

Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem

Last year, 18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went ...
The Conversation

NZ curriculum refresh: the world faces complex challenges and science education must reflect that

Sara Tolbert receives funding from the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). She also consults for the New Zealand Ministry of Education and is a co-writer to the New Zealand Curriculum ...