Archive for September 6th, 2008
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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