In a good cause: for science!

[mrissa]

I suspect that everyone who reads this blog knows that science is a strong and passionate interest of mine. Science! Because it works! Science! Because it’s built to incorporate new information when new information is available, and to provide tools for making it available! Science! Well. I don’t think you’re the people who need convincing.

But

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[diatryma]

A good friend of mine works for the National Center for Science Education and runs a *lot* of workshops and demos on climate change and its effects, aimed at kids and communities. Her end of the organization also gives grants to schools for science education, often for more basic stuff than you might expect from a well-off district.

[mrissa]

Thanks!

[timprov]

I don't know, anthropogenic climate change requires a whole host of important things we don't really have any evidence for, like free will and linear time.

[mrissa]

Science is about approximations, after all.

[aedifica]

That reminds me I've been meaning to suggest this book that I think you'd be likely to enjoy: I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong. It's a book about microbes for the lay person. I haven't finished it yet, but I've been enjoying it a lot.

(Perhaps you have already read it, and said so in a book post? I've been off LJ a lot recently, so I wouldn't have noticed if you have talked about it.)

[mrissa]

I have not read it! I will look. Thank you.