The gender pay gap is now the narrowest it’s ever been, and yet it’s still 2.5 times the size of those of other industrialized countries. So what’s to be done? By all accounts and figures, women in the work force have made enormous economic progress in the last 50 years. In the 1980s, women only…Read more

“Just a Theory”: 7 Misused Science Words By Tia Ghose, LiveScience on April 2, 2013 From “significant” to “natural,” here are seven scientific terms that can prove troublesome for the public and across research disciplines Hypothesis. Theory. Law. These scientific words get bandied about regularly, yet the general public usually gets their meaning wrong. Now,…Read more

Feature Article: Communicating the science of climate change by Richard C. J. Somerville and Susan Joy Hassol It is urgent that climate scientists improve the ways they convey their findings to a poorly informed and often indifferent public.   As scientists we must consider the power of language in our communication as common terms for…Read more

Why Math Rocks Article by Marcelo Gleiser — a theoretical physicist and cosmologist and professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is the co-founder of 13.7, a prolific author of papers and essays, and active promoter of science to the general public. Everyone who has kids, or who remembers his/her childhood,…Read more