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Can ‘Unscientific America’ be science literate?

AUG 24, 2009
Physics Today
NPR : Is the rift closing between scientists and the general public? Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author of Unscientific America , discusses the challenges of communicating about science and engineering, what scientists can do to help, and why science literacy is especially important today.
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