From Microbiomes to Neanderthals

From Microbiomes to Neanderthals
From Microbiomes to Neanderthals
I’ll be taking the week off from blogging. Let me leave you with an hour-long interview on public radio in Charlotte, NC, which was recorded on Friday when I was in town to give a lecture for the North Carolina State Science Festival. We ranged over a lot of material, from de-extinctions to science literacy to personalized […]

Science Literacy: A Worldwide Look

Science Literacy: A Worldwide Look
Science Literacy: A Worldwide Look
I was skimming through the new Science and Engineering Indicators 2012 from the National Science Foundation when I came across this very interesting table. Whenever I see reports about science literacy in the United States, the reports are very parochial, with no comparison to other counties. Here is a table of scores on similar tests […]

Guerrilla reading – what former revolutionaries tell us about the neuroscience of literacy

Guerrilla reading – what former revolutionaries tell us about the neuroscience of literacy
Guerrilla reading – what former revolutionaries tell us about the neuroscience of literacy
The reintegration of Colombian guerrillas after decades of fighting and no education gave scientists a chance to see what happens in the brains of illiterate people as they learn to read.