{"id":120486,"date":"2009-12-31T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:18:33","slug":"the-national-science-teachers-association-ntsa-recommends-unscientific-america-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120486","title":{"rendered":"The National Science Teachers Association (NTSA) Recommends Unscientific America | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

See here<\/a>. Their reviewer calls our book<\/a> a “tour-de-force statement about the current state of science in America,” continuing:\"\"\/<\/p>\n

The writing is engaging and should find an important audience. As opposed to many science-centered books, this book will appeal not only to teachers, but, more importantly, to undergraduates who are slowly becoming aware of political issues. This book should therefore find readership beyond just science students to all students interested, or becoming interested, in current issues important to politics, education, and the general state of our nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read the full review\/recommendation here<\/a>. We are also of course psyched that our fellow Discover blogger Phil Plait also recently gave Unscientific America<\/em> an Xmas-time plug<\/a>, observing, <\/span><\/p>\n

This book doesn\u2019t complain about how the public doesn\u2019t get science, it actually has advice \u2014 good advice \u2014 for how people can take up this charge.<\/p>\n

You can read Phil’s full take here<\/a>. We’re very gratified by the new wave of attention the book is receiving this holiday season, and are just about to begin updating it for the paperback due out next summer. So, more soon….<\/p>\n

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See here. Their reviewer calls our book a “tour-de-force statement about the current state of science in America,” continuing: The writing is engaging and should find an important audience. As opposed to many science-centered books, this book will appeal not only to teachers, but, more importantly, to undergraduates who are slowly becoming aware of political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}