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Questioning Science Education

Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 6, 2008

Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge — and specifically, what we don’t know about science that we might think we do.
 

So goes the blurb for the one of the latest talks on TED.  [...]


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