{"id":3131,"date":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/good-review-of-unscientific-america-from-aps%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cforum-on-education%e2%80%9d-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:49:36","slug":"good-review-of-unscientific-america-from-aps%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cforum-on-education%e2%80%9d-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/good-review-of-unscientific-america-from-aps%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cforum-on-education%e2%80%9d-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Good Review of Unscientific America from APS\u2019s \u201cForum on Education\u201d | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art Hobson, an Emeritus physicist at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/fed\/newsletters\/fall2009\/hobson.cfm\">reviewed our book<\/a> for the American Physical Society&rsquo;s educational forum, and it seems he liked it. A quote:<\/p><p><em> <\/em><\/p><p>Summarizing its prescription, the book&rsquo;s final chapter states &ldquo;We must fundamentally change the way we think and talk about science education,&rdquo; and this means rethinking the education of <em>scientists<\/em> as well as the public school and college education of non-scientists. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t simply need a bigger scientific workforce: We need a more cultured one, capable of bridging the divides that have led to science&rsquo;s declining influence. &hellip;We must invest in a sweeping project to make science relevant to the whole of America&rsquo;s citizenry.&rdquo; I couldn&rsquo;t agree more.<\/p><p>You can read Hobson&rsquo;s full review <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/fed\/newsletters\/fall2009\/hobson.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/14b58_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MXF70va6XlSk78679fRxDcgbWCg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/14b58_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/14b58_7jnRKlKSswE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Hobson, an Emeritus physicist at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has reviewed our book for the American Physical Society&rsquo;s educational forum, and it seems he liked it. A quote: Summarizing its prescription, the book&rsquo;s final chapter states &ldquo;We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/good-review-of-unscientific-america-from-aps%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cforum-on-education%e2%80%9d-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}