Even though there’s a huge digital divide in Brazil, as many people use the Internet to gain science knowledge as use museums. And no other source approaches either of those.
If I had to pick one lesson from this morning’s session and the afternoon session, it would be that the internet has arrived, and scientists should do a lot more to take advantage of that. The challenge is getting science content into unexpected contexts, so that people who don’t know they want to learn about science still encounter some of it now and then.
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the