Episode 13 - Who and What of the WhyFiles
This week we talk to Terry Devitt from WhyFiles.org.
Preview from the Show:
\nOur primary mission is to look at what is going on in the world every\nweek and find some corner of the scientific enterprise that lends\nitself to a public conversation about science, and then we drill down\ninto that, to contact the best experts that we can find to try to shed\nlight on those dark corners of science - the places and things that\npeople don't know about, and to provide more than what you're going to\nget in a straight-up treatment of science than one routinely encounters\nin popular media. \xa0I think it's safe to say that after we complete\nour formal educations, most people only encounter science through\npopular media, and so a big part of the Why Files mission is to help\npeople come to grips with science - what it is,\xa0 why it's\nimportant, why it makes a difference in our lives on a daily basis.
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\nIt's really essential that people in\na democracy have some understanding of how we generate knowledge,\nbecause it impacts our lives in important ways every day. \xa0
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