Scientific Knowledge

By Alberto Brodesco Lost in science Before parachuting on the Island, Daniel Faraday was a professor of physics at Oxford. As it often happens in Lost, the name of the character alludes to a philosophical or scientific personality belonging to the past (including Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Rutherford and Minkowski), in this case to Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a leading scholar of electromagnetism

By Aviv J. Sharon, Jim Ryder, Jonathan Osborne, Esther Laslo & Hani Swirski Individuals need to be "science literate" to cope with many demands of everyday life, and much of their science literacy stems from what they learned at school. These are hardly new claims, neither in science education nor in science communication. Still, the term "science literacy" might sound old-fashioned to some

By Noah Weeth Feinstein, Rainer Bromme, Sarit Barzilai, and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Public engagement with science is widely perceived to be a source of many benefits to society, including benefits to the everyday decision making of its citizens, the quality of its democratic discourse, and the vitality of its scientific research institutions. Examples for such benefits would be the adherence

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