
Reinventing Science Education
Feb 5, 2008 Carl E. Wieman on the increasing cultural disinterest in science.
Carl E. Wieman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. He is currently Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia and Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado.
Feb 5, 2008 Carl E. Wieman on the increasing cultural disinterest in science.
A toxic mix of mutual distrust and rising nationalism – with Taiwan the immediate flash point – has brought Sino-American relations to their lowest point in decades. While neither China nor the United States appears to want a military conflict, we asked PS commentators whether the two powers might nonetheless stumble into one.