I really needed this short video from Emilie Graslie of The Brainscoop on her commitment to curiosity, diversity and science discourse. YES! Stay curious, challenge your own biases, champion science. Let's go.
Most young people can't distinguish between a fake news story and a legitimate source, a fake Twitter account and a real one, or an advertisement or the article it's contained within. This according to a new study released by Stanford University today. According to lead author Sam Wineburg and his co-researchers, youth across a wide range of …
This Saturday, I had the pleasure of driving a group of the California Academy of Science’s teen interns to beautiful Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay to go on a marine life collection expedition. The purpose of the trip was to work with a group of teens from the environmental nonprofit Nature Bridge to refresh …
2013 photo of the staff at the California Academy of Sciences Jon Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, sent this to all of us on the staff yesterday. I couldn't be more proud to work here. Dear Academy Family, I know that for many of us the last 24 hours have been …
This has not been the most science-rich election, among many of the other things that were lacking this political season. Science Debate has been working hard to make sure try and get science and environmental issues into the political discourse, largely to no avail. Which is a tragedy, since we live in times where our …