With July of this year, 2023, being the hottest on Earth yet recorded, there are increasing concerns about how climate change will shape the next several decades. We often hear about how climate change will increase disastrous weather events, decimate crops, and...
March 10th, 2013 — Our own Monica Metzler, Founding Director of the Illinois Science Council, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Arts & Entertainment section today, in the article “Taking Science to the Masses.” The article, which covers scientists bringing science to the public, also focuses on the work of Chicago’s Neil Shubin and his work in evolutionary paleontology and New York’s Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is an astrophysicist. The article covers their approaches to getting science to non-scientific audiences.
